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Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by mattvot on Friday March 23, 2012 @05:47AM (#3744305)
I'm just going to take the opportunity to promote my social networking experiment, http://keepcalmand.com/

So far it's on track for exponential traffic growth, which is exciting. All traffic either comes from facebook sharing or google.

Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by estel on Friday March 23, 2012 @07:16AM (#3744633)
It looks good, but it would be much better if you used the right font for the text.
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by mattvot on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:44AM (#3745625)
Yeh, when I've got the time I'll put a similar font on. It does have the correct font for the wallpapers though
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by prestonbriggs on Friday March 23, 2012 @02:16PM (#3746405)
Gill Sans was my guess, but looking at the R, I'm certainly wrong.
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by icebraining on Friday March 23, 2012 @07:53AM (#3744719)
Thanks for that, I have a new wallpaper!

I just have a nitpick: I think it should break the two words into different lines, like the original does. I first thought it was because the word I chose was shorter (I used "WAVE ON", as in Hendrix's If 6 was 9), but it happens with "CARRY ON" too.

Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by mattvot on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:45AM (#3745638)
Yeh. I thought that too, but it needs some more general tinkering anyway. I'll get round to it at somepoint
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by Tichy on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:24AM (#3745535)
on my screen the background color of the crown is a different red than the rest of the page
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by mattvot on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:46AM (#3745641)
Hmm, I'll look into it
Re:"Keep Calm and Carry On": The Story of the Iconic World W... by itsnotme on Friday March 23, 2012 @12:27PM (#3745881)
The lettering is what makes the original poster. The original poster was most probably hand lettered by a talented lettering artist. Arial doesn't come remotely close.

Especially the capital "r". Arial's "R" makes me want to turn away. "I'm a capital p, but have a protuberance!" Its leg is about as graceful as a heavy duty shoring rod that has been heaved to, propping up an obese person. "Spare me that next step!".