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Summary[edit]

My proposal for a new Explain xkcd icon and wordmark! The icon is based on the Wikipedia logo and drawn by hand as a stick figure, and is specifically loosely based on the "about the author" drawings on Randall's books.

The wordmark uses the same font as the xkcd logo on the website and the current wiki logo (Lucida Sans), and it uses the same drawings of the stick figures on the wiki logo redrawn by hand by me for better quality. The tagline is also placed below in the style of the font used in the xkcd website (Helvetica Extra-Bold Small Caps), and can be altered in case it changes, but I left it as the current one for the example.

I wanted to upload these files separately, but the wordmark as a 124x32 SVG file looks extremely distorted, so I didn't (there's some mild distortion on this version as well but I mostly corrected it). If anyone can figure out how to get past this issue that'd be greatly appreciated.

I'd also really appreciate any feedback in general! I had an idea of adding more stick figures around the "explain", but I wanted to get at least this version of the logo out now.