Battle Drop Photoreal

Photoreal plates are the safest choice for a server that wants to look like an established operation rather than a project. They carry depth without carrying a mood, which means the lettering and the palette do the identity work and the backdrop stays a backdrop.

They also hold up best at the extreme ratios. A photographic plate cropped to 1865x108 still reads as a place, because atmospheric haze and a horizon line survive almost any crop. A stylised composition with a focal subject does not.

Where they are weaker: at 96x96 and 300x300 a photoreal scene becomes a smear of colour, so the small square formats lean entirely on the emblem. That is true of every style, but it costs photoreal the most because detail is what it is for.

See every photoreal design.

Height and distance, with the landscape reduced to pattern. The far-below composition means almost all of the frame is sky and haze, which crops cleanly and leaves a very wide tonal range for the lettering. Built for battle-royale and military roleplay servers rather than city RP.

The same scene is also drawn in anime, grunge and painted.

Cyan has high luminance, so it reads at tiny sizes and fails white-text contrast checks. Use it as the mark and the ribbon rather than as a fill behind text, and pair it with a pale gold horizon so the lettering has somewhere warm to sit. The combination is the most legible in this catalogue at 96 pixels.

See every cyan design.