Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice official color names

Hi Christoph, all,

Christoph Noack schrieb:
> Hi Andras,
>
> thanks for your mail - it's a good reminder that something should be
> finalized. So I CC the Design team as well to quickly come up with a
> decision ...
>
> Am Dienstag, den 01.03.2011, 11:21 +0100 schrieb Andras Timar:
> > [...]
>
> Some time ago, I've started with "Libre" for the color names, but this
> is sometimes cumbersome when working in Inkscape or LibreOffice. Thus,
> we've omitted to use it - according to the table in our wiki [1].
>
> My question to the team is: Is e.g. "Green 1" okay in comparison to
> "Libre Green 1"? On the one hand, it is easier to grasp when using the
> colors, on the other hand, LibO does not provide any further information
> on the currently used color palette.

I'd like to stay consistent not only inside the product, but in external 
use too.

If someone refers to "Blue 3", this can be any blue tone. "LibreBlue 3" 
is (probably) unique.
> In the LibO case, I'd go for "adding Libre" - you take? (+1/-1/0)

Therefore I vote with +1.

But I'd prefer "LibreGreen 1" over "Libre Green 1", because without the 
space "LibreGreen" is a name, while in "Libre Green" libre can be 
understood as descriptive adjective.

To be consistent, we should use "LibreGreen Accent" instead of "Green 
Accent" - OpenGrok shows the latter.
> [...]
>
> 2. The gray shades are missing in the table - these are not necessarily
> part of the official branding palette, but very helpful when working on
> documents (rationale: changing palettes in LibO is still time consuming,
> so the basic colors should be included).

I think we should define two grey values as "LibreGrey" (or 
"LibreGray"). One should be the grey tone of the lighter part in the 
greyscale logo. As it is the equivalent to "LibreGreen" (as official 
LibO color "LibreGreen 1" might be called this way IMHO), I'd call it 
"LibreGrey 1".

The greyscale logo uses a 50% grey level (#808080), and I'd like to keep it.

But the darker part of the logo is black only in the basic logo.
We already discussed the black issue several times, so I'd like to see a 
"LibreGrey 0" to be used for the dark part of the colored and the 
greyscale logo.

In my eyes 80% grey (#333333) is dark enough to look distinct from the 
lighter tone, but is recognized as "not black".

We could add "LibreGrey 2" and "LibreGrey 3", but I don't think this is 
necessary for the LibO palette.

If we include the basic colors in the palette, more grey values are as 
important as the main colors.

> Should this be filed as an
> issue?

We don't need an issue to decide about the content of the LibO palette. 
But we probably will, when our decision will lead to an update on the 
color palette inside LibO.

Best regards

Bernhard

> [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Color_Table

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