Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 07:07 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 16:43 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
> > Le 2011-06-24 11:26, eskroni a écrit :
> > > Hi Marc,
> > >
> > >
> > > Marc Paré wrote:
> > > > I just checked on my system (Mageia 1 ->  a Mandriva fork), FreeSans is
> > > > not installed. How is the Liberation font family for print? This font is
> > > > definitely installed on all linux boxes. If we are to adopt a specific
> > > > font, we should make sure that it is a maintained font and that we can
> > > > either have a link to a site where it can be downloaded from or we
> > > > should store in on our own servers. I also think that it should be
> > > > opensource.
> > > >
> > > > I think I had seen somewhere on one of the wiki pages, a specific
> > > > recommendation for a font for print, was is not Vegur?
> > > I'm not sure, that it was a recommmendation - Vegur is the font, that is
> > > used for the LibreOffice logo.
> > >
> > > I've made a few more screenshots with the Clearlooks theme and the different
> > > greens from the
> > > LibO branding page.
> > >
> > > You can find them all here:
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Doku/Allgemein/Screenshots
> > >
> > > I also made those screenshots under Mageia 1, I didn't set a specific font.
> > > It just says "Sans"
> > > or "Sans Bold". For one set of screenshots I changed from a 10 point font to
> > > 12 points, to see
> > > how this would look like. For the font rendering I chose "Best contrast"
> > > inspite of me having a
> > > flatscreen monitor.
> > >
> > > Any comments are welcome.
> > >
> > > Sigrid
> > Thanks for doing this Sigrid
> >
> > One comment is that maybe next time, not have the spell check on for 
> > these. It just make it a little more difficult for evaluation. We really 
> > need the comments from the documentation team people on the look and 
> > feel for our documents and especially for print. At this point, we 
> > should try to accommodate the comments from Jean Hollis Weber on this 
> > topic and try to find a theme OR create our own theme for this purpose. 
> > Maybe none of the "pre-packaged" themes will work for what we need.
>
>
> I've briefly looked at the samples Sigrid and someone else posted.
> Thanks to both of you! My first thought is that a variation on
> Clearlooks (colour and perhaps font) should work very well. But I want
> to do some printing tests on a b/w printer before saying more. I'll get
> back to this list with more comments later today (it's 07:00 here).
>
> --Jean

My tests suggest that for printing in grayscale, the best choice from
Sigrid's collection uses Clearlooks modified to use the Green 1 colour
for highlighting and title bar backgrounds; it has very good contrast
with the white text in title bars and highlighted menu selections. I
used Liberation Sans at font size 11.

The other parts of Clearlooks (grays and whites in dialog boxes) print
clearly with good contrast. I would be very happy to see the Green 1
variation selected to be the standard LibreOffice theme. 

--Jean


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