Can you put canada where russia and belarus would be?
Turkey is also in Europe. Partly.
Technically, Russia is too. 🤷
I love the fact that you didn’t include Russia
Belarus…? They’re definitely not one of the ones people should be buying from…
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 😛 What’s a better translation?
@atro_city Αγοράζετε ευρωπαϊκά (You may want to capitalize the Ε in ευρωπαϊκά (to Ευρωπαϊκά) - 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 Λαμβάνετε) “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 Ευρωπαϊκά is plural (so it can mean “stuff, in general”, so it’s ok even without another word).
QR code of european-aternatives.eu with French text and gothic font
Buy European with Gothic font
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?
Not seeing the text. Ecosia browser in Android.
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.)
