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Caropy text in logo is off center #1465

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acertelijah opened this issue Feb 12, 2020 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1590
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Caropy text in logo is off center #1465

acertelijah opened this issue Feb 12, 2020 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1590

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@acertelijah
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I was reading the Cartopy wiki and noticed the logo. The text is not center as the 'C' in Cartopy has less left whitespace than the 'y'

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https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/_static/cartopy.png
@philippemiron
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philippemiron commented Jun 16, 2020 •
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Hi, everyone.

I found that the origin should be set to (-171.0140625, -43.66250001) instead of the (-175, -35) currently sets in the cartopy logo.

The code to get those value is here.

In summary what I did is:

  1. create a function that return the center of a matplotlib.textpath.TextPath using the same scaling as the current cartopy logo.
  2. use scipy.optimize.minimize() to find the origin to horizontally centered the text 'cartopy'.
  3. use scipy.optimize.minimize() to find the origin to vertically centered the letter 'o' (the letters in 'cartopy' don't extended symmetrically so scaling only with the letter 'o' in the vertical gives a better result).

I included a comparison at the end of the script.

Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 6 58 29 PM

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QuLogic commented Jun 19, 2020

The location is pretty arbitrary; would you like to open a PR with that new origin (perhaps with slightly less precision)?

@philippemiron philippemiron linked a pull request Jun 20, 2020 that will close this issue
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@dopplershift dopplershift linked a pull request Jul 13, 2020 that will close this issue
Center the cartopy text in the logo #1590
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