Hi Laura - and web and design teams, Quoting Laura Arjona Reina (2019-07-10 10:18:47) > (Sorry for the long mail, I couldn't find time to shrink it...)
Please no apology: Structural issues like this one is exactly what I envision that the design team can help address, so your lenghthy email is appreciated as a concrete case for us (in addition to your concrete plea for help). While at it: Thanks for the stream of emails you've cc'ed the design team in recent years. Please continue to do that, I see value in that, even though we have not yet been able to react to any of them. The design team currently consists of ~2 members, both quite busy elsewhere, which explains the loud silence you might have noticed from us. Hopefully that will change - personally I haven't given up yet, and the 20-30 people showing up to our BoF at Debconf17 in Canada 2 yars ago indicates that there is quite some interest from others as well. > We have had some issues to setup the website homepage banner for the new > theme > included in Debian 10 buster (theme futurePrototype > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/futurePrototype ). > This mail is to explain what I've been able to figure out and see if we can > improve further. > > 1.- Starting point > > Alex Makas provided a png with the website banner (thanks!) > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/futurePrototype?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=website-banner.png > > > but until now we have used 2 png files for the website banner: one with the > background and other with the debian swirl + text + motto > > I'm not sure why we are using 2 files; I *think* it is because the > older background png files were designed in a way that they were > fitting wide screens nicely, but I'm not sure if the stretch/buster > background PNG files include that feature. My guess is that initially only the swirl was a graphic, then name changed to use a non-free font requiring fixating it as a graphics, then background was changed from a flat color to an illustration needing a graphic, and then motto was fixated into a graphic. It would IMO be ideal if the text was not fixated as graphics but was preserved as letters selectable and therefore web-searchable. At least for the motto. Not sure that is doable, however - it is far easier to throw opinions than to struggle with implementing them ;-) [ details snipped ] > You can see those files in the test site we have for the new-homepage > branch: > > https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net WAUW!!! Amazing facelift of the front page. Congratulations to the web team for that! [ details snipped ] > The result will be visible in the website in the next hours but you > can see the png file here: > > https://deb.li/f0rF > > I don't know if this result can be improved or not, and if the issues > of bad kerning in stretch or thinner font in buster are bugs or > features and if they are related to inkscape or the font package or > the font upstream. > > Any advice is welcome, as well as advice about the specific > requirements we (website team) should provide in the artwork contest > so designers know what to provide, exactly. Do I nderstand you correctly that essentially your original problem was bad font kerning, and fixing that you now have a problem of not being able to match the font thickness? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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