Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Cover design for printed LibreOffice user guides

Hi Drew, Jean, all

I'm really sorry, that I didn't comment on this design earlier.
I had started to move something similar to the OpenSourcePress design to 
SVG, but my laptop decided to boil (Ubuntu fan control sucks) and all my 
work was gone...

Jean Hollis Weber schrieb:
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 09:22 -0400, drew wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > Hi Jean,
> >
> > Well, couldn't resist touching this one time over morning coffee.
> > Decoupled the document icon from the textual part and put both no a
> > growth hormone, also rolled back the color jab on the scatter patter as
> > it was kaka (technical term for sucked)...you can see in the latest file
> >
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Lib0WriterGuideSimple.png
> > [...]
>
>
> The large gray LibO icon in the upper right-hand corner seems a bit of a
> harsh contrast to the rest of the image. It might work if smaller, or in
> a different color or something.

I assume you removed the document icon from the logo in order to enlarge 
the "LibreOffice" text, which really seems a bit small on the other 
covers on the wiki gallery 
(http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Gallery_DocumentationFronts).

But I don't like this icon in this place and size either - it looks too 
bold in my eyes.
> [...]
>
> Doesn't look like anyone else has had time to look at this and coment.

Sorry - different things to do :-(

I don't have lots of other comments.

I agree that the logo might be more prominent in order to have a larger 
"LibreOffice" text on the cover, but I would keep the logo intact as 
this is our main branding element.

You probably tried already to have the full mimetype icons instead of 
just the symbols - this would be the only way I imagine with this design 
to include the sub-applications colors to the covers without becoming 
too prominent.

But these are not very important considerations. Your design looks good 
- there is no reason at all to veto it: Please go ahead!

And thanks for stepping in!

Best regards

Bernhard

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