The New Logo

First off, thanks to everyone who made suggestions and offered advice.

I had originally intended to make several logos and try them out.  In fact, I did make several, but once I had them all made I started ruling many of them out.  Some of the more traditional “zombie” fonts I threw out because they were too common.  Other fonts just ended up not really having the feel I wanted once I got past the initial “I like this font” opinion.  Ultimately, I ended up picking a font called Breakaway.  And with a slight modification to the original picture logo (I shifted the zombie down and added a cross-hair), I wound up with this:

But I felt the header of the page needed something more.  The original header had a gray background shade to it, but that just seemed a bit bland.  I wanted to go darker, but I didn’t just want a flat dark color.  Then I remembered that during my digging around on dafont I had stumbled onto Passarela, which is a font made of people.  Now, a number of those characters are ladies in hats and other things, but there ended up being about a dozen or so of people just standing or walking, without accessories.  So I went to Google, looked up random string generators, put in the letters for the characters I liked and a healthy number of spaces, and I came up with three random dispersions of figures.  I layered them, put them in black, did a green-black gradient for the background and ended up with this:

With the new text and picture overlaid on this background, I think it gives a nice zombie flavor without being quite so obvious or in-your-face.

I’m really quite happy with it.  Now, on to the next project…