I would be happy to help, however it appears there is a slight issue with the font used for Simple English.

The early Wikipedia logos were all created using proprietary software and proprietary fonts; as far as I can see, that text was created with a version of Garamond, likely Adobe Garamond Pro Italic or Semibold Italic or possibly a version of Garamond Premier; personally I think it was the former as most of those logos were created in Adobe Photoshop.

Now, as you can see, both Adobe Garamond and Garamond Pro are proprietary and cost US$29.99 each. I don't volunteer to pay for the font, but more importantly, we have in the past agreed to only use freely-licenced fonts for our logos, for multiple reasons. This means that we will never be able to exactly reproduce the original logo, as free alternatives to closed-source Garamond fonts are necessarily different.

The closest alternative I could find is EB Garamond, which can be downloaded from BitBucket. I hope we can agree on this alternative--there isn't much choice, really--and in case we do, I created a quick PNG version using that font.

Apart from the two fonts being different, there are some other differences between this new version and the old one: for instance, in the old logo, both 'Simple English' and 'Wikipedia' were not aligned correctly on the vertical axis, which is easy to spot if you compare them side-by-side; the new version fixes this.

Current version	New version

Opinions and criticisms welcome :-)

Thanks a lot @tomasz! From my point of view, we can just use your work and change even the low-res logo without asking. There's almost no difference. By the way, can you upload SVG to Commons? MediaWiki now support direct using of SVG (see T178942 and linked bugs/commits) and I prefer using SVG. IMHO all major browsers will have no problem with using SVG so this should be okay.

I uploaded the new version as File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-simple.svg and the PNG version as File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-simple.png.

I'm not exactly sure how you want to go about using the SVG directly (personally I suggest keeping local copies in Gerrit rather than serving files from Commons), but the low quality PNG version can be submitted to Gerrit straight away if need be.

@Urbanecm Any suggestions as to how we can proceed to close this Task?

Do you want me to submit a patch in Gerrit to overwrite the current logo (and provide high-density versions) until there is a bigger switch to using SVG directly?

Change 419144 had a related patch set uploaded (by Odder; owner: Odder):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add high-density logos for the Simple English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/419144

Change 419144 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add high-density logos for the Simple English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/419144