Belarusโฆ? Theyโre definitely not one of the ones people should be buying fromโฆ
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I cleaned it up. I removed a lot of unused content and also all the translations. I made the map smaller so everything fits inside the stars, and removed Belarus. What is left is pretty straightforward and readable: https://better-tech.eu/content/logos/buyeuropean.svg
The internals defenitively look better and you removed Belarus, so that's good.
Did you intend to leave out the words? Without them the big yellow outer circle seems off/unnecessary.
Do you not see the two BUY EUROPEAN texts in the yellow ring? How are you viewing the svg?
I'm not that guy, but I don't see the texts in the yellow ring when clicking the link using the hardened (Chromium-based) Vanadium browser on GrapheneOS.
Thanks, that helped me fix it.
(Chrome doesn't support writing text along a circle, so I had to make a circle with a path-element. I learned way too much about svg in the past hour.)
Not seeing the text. Ecosia browser in Android.
Turkey is also in Europe. Partly.
Technically, Russia is too. ๐คท
Maybe put the Iceland and the other islands closer together. In my opinion is it not a good idea to put the map over the stars. I would make the map smaller and put it behind the stars if they overlap but they really shouldn't. Besides that does it look really good, keep going.
Made in inkscape. It doesn't render well on the web, but somebody can take it and find a better font. It's licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 . The map is from wikipedia and I think they are CC BY-SA 4.0 too. The SVG could not be uploaded as part of this comment, so here's a link.
Multiple variants of the sticker can be exported automatically with the "Export Layers Combos" plugin. The plugin basically toggles layers on and off then exports a PNG. For example to export the image of this post, these layers are toggled on "Maps>>Europe outline", "text layer>>wrap>>en-dejavu", "Background". Those are all part of the "maps" combo.
You can guess from the text layer that there are other languages. I ran this through deepl and translated it to the main languages spoken in the 26 EU member states. A friend already told me that one language was actually just Russian with Roman letters, so my confidence in the correctness of the translations is low.
In child comments, I'll show other variations.
QR code of buy-european.net with Greek text and DejaVu font
@atro_city Pardon me for saying, but that's a terrible translation!! (greek here)
No worries, blame deepl ๐ What's a better translation?
@atro_city ฮฮณฮฟฯฮฌฮถฮตฯฮต ฮตฯ ฯฯฯฮฑฯฮบฮฌ (You may want to capitalize the ฮ in ฮตฯ ฯฯฯฮฑฯฮบฮฌ (to ฮฯ ฯฯฯฮฑฯฮบฮฌ) - not sure which is more correct).
Thanks! I'll make a post asking others for help in other languages. I'm 100% sure there are other terrible translations :D
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with deepl's translation here?
@atro_city It means "take/receive" (not buy, and even that in ancient greek, and even then, in a single moment - i.e. not continuously which would be ฮฮฑฮผฮฒฮฌฮฝฮตฯฮต) "the european" (singular, neutral gender) - but this opens the question: the european WHAT? The european toy? The european ball? There's a word missing there. Whereas ฮฯ ฯฯฯฮฑฯฮบฮฌ is plural (so it can mean "stuff, in general", so it's ok even without another word).
Thank you for the explanation. Languages are fascinating. LLMs still have to go a long way to have good translations. This is what I expected honestly. I know some people who speak languages not often found on the internet and the translations are awful.
@atro_city Maybe the translations would be better if you told the LLM you want this for a slogan on stickers for a campaign you're doing.
You can't give DeepL instructions. Just the text you want to translate (just like Google Translate). It's better than Google Translate for most things.
@atro_city I don't think Europe is any better than other parts of the world, but I think these stickers of yours would have quite an effect if you perfect the design (margins, etc) and they're stuck everywhere.
I'm not a graphic designer and have no eye for design. The SVG is provided and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, so anybody can open it in Inkscape to make the changes they think are necessary :)
QR code of european-aternatives.eu with French text and gothic font
Buy European with Gothic font
I love the fact that you didn't include Russia
There are better map projections available. Even orthographic (Europe-centered of course) is fine for such a small area.
Could you provide one in SVG format? I'm not sure what you mean.
Orthographic = look at globe from afar. Good for small areas, literally unusable for more than 1 hemisphere.
Wikipedia uses such maps frequently, see the Europe article
Can you put canada where russia and belarus would be?