Hexagonal Stickers for my new laptop

Created 2024-10-21

Modified 2024-11-05

Stickers

My long suffering and much used (and abused) MacBook Pro 13" (retina) from 2013 finally gave up recently. It's had memory issues for some time but mostly was able to keep going. Untill it couldn't and I get a full screen error one day and it would no longer boot.

At some point it had gained a "retro" rainbow apple sticker over the apple logo, and a wood veneer (real wood!) which had been stickered over a bit not complete coverage.

I've now got a Lenovo ThinkPad X390, refurbished, grade C, intel Core i5 8265U, 8GiB RAM, 256GB NVME storage, USB C port that does power data and display, so far I like it a lot. But it does lack stickers...

I have recently aquired a Brother QL-560 label printer. Ideas formed.

The following stickers are designed to follow the Hexagon Sticker Standard of 5.08cm diagonal plus or minus 1mm. They have also been optimised to print on my specific printer which can do black, white, and 8 shades of grey in between by dithering the black and white. Some have colour in them which is original, others it has been modified to suit the printer and may look odd when viewed/printed in colour.

My ThinkBook with a tesselation of stickers applied - aligned with and overlapping the ThinkBook logo

They make use of the following fonts:

Atkinson Hyperlegible - most, you can get this with apt install fonts-atkinson-hyperlegible
Lato - some, you can get this with apt install fonts-lato
SF Cartoonist Hand - a couple
BankGothic - one, noted below
Open Sans Condensed - one, noted below, you can get this with apt install fonts-open-sans
Dank Mono - one, any monospace programming style font will work though

License?

I'm making these available for your own personal use, you're welcome to adjust them to suit your own printer/situation/etc. but please don't sell them.

This is the base SVG file which is the correct size to make your own sticker designs in. base.svg

Stickers go here

Here follows the stickers, I've attempted to make some kind of grouping / category but it's not exact!

Linux / "nerd"

Mastodon.Radio

Alex with heart eyes, lineart of Alex on a laptop, and another of them waving, Mastodon.Radio in the middle mastodonRadioAlex.svg

A circle of all the Alex emoji with Mastodon.Radio in the middle mastodonRadioAlexEmoji.svg

WCAG 2.2

Started as a basic idea because WCAG 2.2AA and GTFO are all 4 letters (ish) and morphed because Success Critera 3.1.4 requires abbreviations to be expanded and the joke kept expanding from there to also include the "or the latest applicable version of these guidelines" bit. Originally it was triangle shape. "Fudge" so you can put it onto a work laptop.

WCAG 22AA or GTFO in big, around the outside "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.2* Level AA or Get The Fudge Out" and under the main text even smaller "* or the latest applicable version of these guidleines" WCAGGTFO.svg WCAGGTFOx4.svg

Craft & Code

Based on the tagline / sticker from Future Insights / Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference (quite a few years ago). I've had the big circle sticker on a netbook I took there ever since and it really resonates with me, the melding of craft, design, humans, and code.

This one uses Dank Mono but you could swap the bottom bit for any monospace or programming font.

Lineart person with cartoon style text reading Craft & Code followed by { ... } craftCode.svg

Disable IPv6

Inspired by this toot by Rail

If the solution is to disable IPv6, it is still broken disableIPv6.svg

I Void Warranties

With apologies to Jilles Groenendijk

I VOID WARRANTIES wrapped around the inside of the hexagon, with a skull and crossed soldering iron and screwdriver in the middle, and terminal prompt, multi-meter, oscilloscope, and binary/chip icons along the bottom iVoidWarrenties.svg

Warnings

Danger - No Microsoft

Based on this toot or one like it

DANGER bent arcross the top, Do not connect this machine to a microsoft account no matter how much it asks, with a crossed out microsoft/windows logo at the bottom noMS.svg

Warning - Spicy Pillow

Inspired by this toot by @[email protected] commenting that

Everything with a lithium battery should come with a big orange sticker that says "discontinue use if the battery starts to swell".

Warning triangle with text Contains Lithium Cells (which is crossed out and a comic font adds A Spicy Pillow) Discontinue use if battery (cross out, Pillow added) starts to swell lithiumCells.svg

Based on the EFF original sticker, but in the hex format.

Black with white text, I DO NOT CONSENT TO THE SEARCH OF THIS DEVICE noSearch.svg

DHMO

More for my DHMO containment vessles than laptop, but it's hexagonal... PS, do not expose your laptop to DHMO unless it has been specifically hardened againt this corrosive chemical.

WARNING Dihydrogen Monoxide Can cause serious injury or death if inhaled. Prolonged exposure to solid form causes severe tissue damage and necrosis. Exposure to gasious form can cause immediate burns and death. Do not combine with group 1 Alkali metals. QR Code for DHMO.org warningDHMO.svg

LGBTQ+

It's hard to do rainbows with shades of grey!

Trans Rights

Greyscale trans flag background with Trans Rights transRights.svg

Pronouns

A couple for myself/friends, I may make more or automate the process later... I'd suggest printing these directly from the SVG files so the QR codes don't get desroyed by being trurned into PNG files / or export them with a much higher DPI value.

Pronouns logo, My pronouns are He or They FYI with QR codes linking to mypronouns.fyi pronounsHeThey.svg