TITLE: Making Logos for Coding Club
DATE: 2017-09-10
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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Over the Summer while the students are away, instead of making more 
tutorials, I've been going back through the content on 
ourcodingclub.github.io, trying to make it look more professional, 
easy to read, and to fix any factual errors. One thing on my list 
was to create some more logos for our tutorials page. While doing 
this I made a template file so that future logos can be created 
easily and all to the same standard.

  [ourcodingclub.github.io]: ourcodingclub.github.io
  [tutorials page]: ourcodingclub.github.io/tutorials

I started by opening Inkscape, which is an open source vector 
drawing program available on macOS, Linux and Windows.

  [Inkscape]: https://inkscape.org/

All our logos are loosely inspired by some stickers that RStudio 
published so I started by tracing the hexagon shape using the 
polygon tool to get the size right, adjusted the canvas size, etc.. 
Then after some brainstorming I added some text and images to the 
logo, related to the content of that tutorial.

  [RStudio published]: 
https://www.stickermule.com/user/1070448958/stickers

An Rstudio sticker:

  ![RStudio Hexagon sticker - 
readr](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/logos/readr_hex.png)

The new logos look like this:

  ![New logos](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/logos/new.png)

The template file for future logos to be created quickly:

  ![Template 
logo](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/logos/temp_logo.png)