[lca2018-chat] Font used to render badge?

[James Polley]

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Shaun Walker <shaun at theshaun.com> wrote:

> Pity, I quite liked the ones from last year, so many great approaches to
> visualing things on badges, but certainly understand the cost of colour vs
> black ink!
>

The decision hasn't actually been about cost - more to do with wanting to
be able to print badges on-demand.

To do that and keep up with the rates we expect at peak times we need to be
able to spit them out quickly. Getting the templates (with all the fancy
color bits) pre-printed and loaded into a B&W printer to add in the name
text is the tried-and-tested way to get a combination of looking good and
still able to print quickly enough to keep up with the queues.

Last year's team pre-printed badges, which had some advantages (they looked
fantastic! and nobody had to stress about printers breaking down in the
middle of rego, or running out of toner, or being bitten by evil DRM
randomly deciding that the cartidge was too old and refusing to work any
more) but also some disadvantages (we've heard, anecdotally, although this
is not universally accepted, that having to rummage in a stack of badges to
find the one that matches the person in front of you is slower and more
frustrating than pressing a button and picking up the next badge out of the
printer)

The ideal combination would be enough speed to print the badges on demand,
in full-duplex, in full colour, in 10 seconds or less per badge.


>
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> Shaun
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> On 8 Jan. 2018 23:35, "James Polley" <jamezpolley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Sobey <dns at dns.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Just wondering what font will be used to render the conference badges.
>> I can see in the preview that that some emoji do work but when I try and
>> enter the flag for Australia it does not render.
>>
>
> That's a really good question, I'm open to suggestions. Hoping to have
> this nailed down next weekend.
>
> Even if it does render, the printing is going to be black-and-white, so
> the flag isn't going to be particularly noticeably Australian anyway.
>
> For now, https://rego.linux.conf.au/tickets/mybadge.png probably gives
> you the best idea about what would come out of we printed it today, but I
> hope to improve that if I can figure out how to improve the rendering.
>
> Suggestions (and patches) welcome.
>
>
>>
>> Are you planning on supporting emoji, font awesome, material icons on
>> badges?
>> If so what font should we use to preview the badges.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
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