Designing a sign for the Drewcade. Need your opinions!

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Designing a sign for the Drewcade. Need your opinions!

Been playing around with Illustrator CS5 lately and I have come up with this. The final signage is going to be 27x18. Just want some opinions on how I can improve on it or if you have any ideas? (The black bars at the top and bottom are not part of the sign, lol)

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Looks good, maybe you should make the background a darker color so that the ghost stands out a little more, then you could change the lettering color as well.
 
Looks pretty friggin good. Only suggestion I have would be to make the text yellow also or maybe put a white border around the black text to make it pop.

I like the font. What is it, if you don't mind sharing?
 
Looks pretty friggin good. Only suggestion I have would be to make the text yellow also or maybe put a white border around the black text to make it pop.

I like the font. What is it, if you don't mind sharing?

Font is called Space Patrol.
 
Yeah, sorry Drewster, but I'm not a big fan of the font either. Perhaps if your characters were from Fung-fu or Karate champ it would work better...but for Pac characters? meh.

I think the background color should be black just as the panel normally is. That's the only way you'll be able to see the yellows or the ghost once printed in real life. The stuff never quite looks the same as it does on a computer screen.

So.....

1.Black background with mid-gray space invaders.
2.White bordered, yellow font of a more recognizable form.
3. Keep the pac pellets the same.

I really like the simple nature of the layout though. Works well.
 
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I am still somewhat partial of the font until I find something else, but here is what I have done. Can anyone recommend different fonts?

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I didn't think the blue background was bad. You changed the font to a gradient which looks good, maybe you can make the font pop more, try a dap of yellow in the gradient.
 
Black with the gray invaders looks 100 times better to me. I agree with phoenixstar, some sort of yellow or maybe just brighten the highest tone of the gray in the font. The Font seems to work better for me now, since you changed the background and add the shadow.
 
it is my opinion that the sign lacks a punch or has too many words.


welcome to the drewcade

I would prefer :

DREWCADE

or
THE DREWCADE

nice work so far though, for sure.
 
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