Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25612320-20151028032504/@comment-25612320-20151028173229

Martirsadota wrote:

...impossible as heck, unless someone can make vector traces of these icons at a reasonable enough resolution. Believe it or not, it's not totally out of the question- I can probably get the kanji done up just fine. The problem would be the backgrounds, since they use gradients and shading, I don't think it would look very good, plus they get cut off so I'd just be filling in with guesswork (AKA mirroring). As long as I can get the kanji itself in a reasonable enough resolution to reverse engineer into a vector, anything is fair game. Even T cross messages.

Here's an example of an extremely rough auto trace of Yamato's BB icon. Needs plenty of cleanup, but this was grabbed out of a 218x300 pixel image. Maybe about an hour of work to get it really nice looking and decal ready.

So then, would people go for just the kanji or is the background an integral part of the experience?