[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] design overhaul

Hi Joey, all!

You're totally that we want to go on with the Community Design.

But this will happen on the design list, not on marketing.

So please: everybody interested in this task: Join our Design Team.

The Kick-Off for the Design Team has reached it's third step: 
Introduction of the Team Members:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off#Step_3:_Introduction_of_the_Team_Members

The Community Design is one of the main points in Step 7 - probably to 
be started in a few weeks, while the steps in-between are necessary to 
be solved before.

CC'ing the design list, so the people there are aware of this mail...

Best regards

Bernhard

(for the design list I keep the full quote)


Johannes Bausch schrieb:
> Hey folks,
>
> as far as I have followed the development so far it seems that both logo and
> icons (which make the gross of our branding) for the current release (3.3)
> have been used quite extensively and seem to be the ones we will settle on
> in the long run. I still want to share some thoughts about that.
>
> 1. What happened to the community branding? As the current logo has been
> used so much, I must say that I want to speak *against* changing it again.
> 2. The wiki branding site is still full of ideas for logos, mascots, icons
> etc. and it seems as if nothing is decided yet. And this is the official
> position, isn't it? Having said that, I'd like to encourage you (us) to
> somehow finalize the branding. There are so many great artists (see the
> wallpaper renders of the icons) who use, yes, which drafts? - The official
> one? The ones they like most? - for their work. I think it would be better
> if we had a clear decision regarding branding, and that as soon as possible.
> 3. There is no central place to look for resources (yes, since we haven't
> decided upon an official version yet, I begin to repeat myself). The
> wallpaper renders, for example, where are the source files for these icons?
> They look like Bernhard's, but even better. *They *should be the ones used
> in the application.
>
> Now some minor issues which I still don't like about the current "official"
> files.
> 1. The "LibreOffice" still has no proper ligatures. From a typographic point
> of view the text looks cheap.
> 2. There is no proper spacing/connection between logo and logo text:
> http://tinyurl.com/6kt8n8q
> For me logo and text look like two distinct parts. There are several reasons
> for this. The edges on the logo are rounded while the text has sharp ones.
> The lines of text and logo are not the same width.
> 3. I don't like the emboss effect on the "contemporary color" version (while
> this might be my personal opinion, I still want you to consider that for a
> second. In my eyes it just looks like a cheap gimp filter added to the
> normal version).
>
> As far as I can remember, we thought about starting work on the official
> branding after 3.3 is released. I am willing to spend some time on this
> issue over the next few months, but only if we can decide upon a goal in
> this discussion.
>
> Thanks,
> Joey


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