If you are using windows then broadway is a good font for theatre production.

That's the problem I have no idea how to use gimp properly as I only downloaded it this morning. If anyone could do this it would be a great help and I will try to do it also myself. Can anyone give that a last attempt for me?

Just a thought on fonts, this broadway one isn't free, that's one thing, plus I'm not sure about royalties issues. Lawyer here ?

And one very important thing that someone said before you have to redo any bitmap logo made here in vectors (and gimp can't do vectory) or else you won't be able to print those various size you need for shirts, postcards, flyers and so on.

I've always had the Broadway font on any window computer I've ever owed or worked on and never had to pay to download it, so I assumed that as it was a windows default font then the useage of said font would also be free.

everytime I try to do it myself I keep failing miserably

Hopefully someone can be my saviour lol x

A couple of things to consider here is that the logo will need to be large, at least 2048px and perhaps larger, for poster size prints. Otherwise, it's going to look pixelated when you blow it up to print a hi-res banner/poster.

Another suggestion is to change the colors scheme on the website. There isn't nearly enough contrast between the text and the background. If you're going to use a black background, you really need much lighter text. As it stands now, the site is practically unreadable. At least with my eyes, on my monitor.

According to crosoft https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/
This broadway (there are many) font is no part of winxp nor win7. One question last though, I don't know if a font license applies to some letters (a logo) or some text (document) or both.



Second this, the first thing I've done when I saw the out of the box website is highlight the text to be able to read it. Besides, raising the font-size would help, 16px for instance:

As I said on my first post. The site isn't up to date so I will take all this on boards:). If someone can help me with the logo it would be marvellous and I do have broadway. X

Still, I think you should investigate on the legal side, main question is are you allowed to use it and under what circumstances.

Is there a law saying I can't use it? Or...

I will find out. If anyone can make the attempted drawing of mine then would be forever in your debt .

Here is my go at your sketch (done in Inkscape) so it can be resized:


I thought it was a bit busy so came up with something having similar elements but a bit simpler:


Not sure what parts you wanted red....

EDIT - also noticed I misspelled theater in the second one...

-Rob A>

Excellent RobA

I'd even simplify it further, and go so far as to do something like this:


-Rob A>

Those are great, i really like the first one Rob

I really like the first one, only problem is in britain theater is spelt theatre. and Red is upto your imagination, if you could put it where you find best then wuld be great.

Heh. In Canada, too.

Here is a larger 300DPI version. I can provide the SVG as well, but will have to convert the fonts to paths so it could be used when you don't have the font.


@anarkhya Regarding font usage... Just check the licencing. My version "Broadway Engraved" came in a font package I purchased, and the licencing states I can use that font in commercial work. I can't however provide/give/sell the font as a font file or even as a high quality image of all the font glyphs.

-Rob A>

Very nice, I like the inkscape versions, although I sort of miss the drama masks being used in some way.

Ok, so it's the typical free to use but no spread, I didn't dig at the right place (:

Cool versions you have, I'm for the first one too, two points though, I'm reading the silhouette as related to dancing (especially because of combo with music symbol) and I think the placement of 'theatre productions', down right like this breaks the composition a bit. But managing a 6 words logo is not easy I admit, that's uncommon.