[libreoffice-design] Re: Banner

Hi Jeff, Drew, all

Jef Chimene wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 08:05 PM, drew wrote:
> > [...] 
> > I could produce one with the contemporary logo, but looking at the
> > photos from FOSDEM it does not look like the banner uses it, it looks
> > like it uses the one in the file you have.

The FODEM logo banner has been ordered by developers without 
involving the Design Team.  This might have caused Branding issues
I didn't know about before I looked at the photo:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9MZR46ZEuS8/TU1xqu34pxI/AAAAAAAAAuk/nuJEHLD_Aq4/s1600/P1040877.JPG

It seems that the white space rules are disregarded and the color has
has turned to a more yellow tone during print processing...

> Good. I'm glad you're tracking that.
>
> > Also I see they went much closer to edges then I did, I'll do that also,
> > which will raise the height, which is a good thing.

In my eyes it's a bad thing. :-(

Even if someone could argue that there is plenty of empty space around 
a banner, the visual impression depends on the white area around the logo.

A logo with too less white space doesn't look professional to me, it 
"can't breath". The white space recommendations in the Branding 
Guidelines are *minimum* sizes - it is no problem to leave much more
space around the logo.

I don't think that this last enlargement provides any improvement over the 
smaller version (as I can't imagine any situation on a fair, where these 
differences become relevant for readability).

> > BRB
>
> Standing by.
>
> How do we make sure that Bernhard is in the loop?

Quite easily: 

Keep posting on this list. At least once in 24h I try to read all the LibO 
mails I got.

I thought I would be quite fast at the moment:

I've been online until 00:50h last night before I went to bed, got up 4 1/2 
hours later and took my chance to have a look at my mails right after 08:00
here at work.

If you decide to discuss and order your banner in this short timeframe,
nobody here in Europe can react (perhaps except someone being even 
more a night-owl than myself).

Best regards

Bernhard




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