When designing Oh My Lost Darklords, I considered the options I had to feature a logo which could indicate compatibility with all the Old-School Renaissance/Revival games out there.

1. Using the most widespread existing logo, now unfortunately contested because of his creator’s decision to pull it despite its attached Creative Commons license at the peak of the Google+ days. I felt I needed to respect said decision in spite of its shaky legal grounding, and that using it would involontarily constitute a statement of sorts, which I wanted to avoid.
2. Using a less widespread one, which frankly, I didn’t deem aesthetically sound.
3. Making my own, which would remind everyone of the World’s Most Famous Roleplaying Game while retaining originality, something that would trigger a “oh, yes, that’s the OSR” response in anyone seeing it while indicating clearly what it is about the same way, and with the same power the widespread, but controversial one did.

Eventually, I settled for 3), which you can see on the cover of Oh My Lost Darklords.

I considered afterwards that maybe, others were facing the same conundrum, and could make use of the logo I’ve designed with all these elements in mind, which is why…

I am now placing it in the Public Domain under a Creative Commons 0 license (no attribution, full commercial use, remix and remake as you see fit) and offering a few different versions of it on Drivethrurpg, also for free:

• White
• White contour
• Black
• OSR Blue
• OSR Blue contour

You are now all welcome to download and use any of these versions as you want.