User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130110025213/@comment-1046-20130110203055

Since Czechout has asked for opinions, and quickly, here's mine: the font is just wrong for a site that's meant to encompass all of Doctor Who and its spin-offs. To me, in addition to the Young Justice comparison, it suggests an action-based video game. Now, youth and action are important parts of Doctor Who, but most of Doctor Who doesn't resemble a teen superhero comic or a shoot-em-up game.

I think we should be going in another direction altogether. Something simpler, perhaps more classic and timeless in appearance. We obviously can't copy the typeface of the series' current logo, but we could probably find something similar to the sans serif typeface used for credits and story titles in the latest title sequence. Alternatively, we could find something resembling the Pertwee/TV Movie logotype (which is still used for "classic Who" products) or something similar to the diamond logo (which I think is still pretty widely recognized). Perhaps there's a free font resembling the Futura family, which has been used as the basis for Doctor Who logos and onscreen credits at several points in the series' history.

In short, I'd prefer a logo that was less "in-your-face" and more "in the family" of the fonts used in the series.