Hi Allan, Thanks for the feedback to my comments. It's good to know things aren't finalized - I realized I'm just jumping in the process.
I'm happy to explore some more secondary colors, and I previously made an attachment trying out different visual motif colors, but am not sure if you saw it. I'm attaching it to this email again. I realize that the reason I prefer the visual motifs within a shape is because it works as a pattern more than a random addition. So Yeon On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:52 AM, <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi to both of you! > > Having looked at the guidelines and example designs, here are some >> comments: >> > > Just so you know - I'm working on a more elaborate version of the style > guide at the moment. The version that I previously sent around isn't meant > to be the final form of the thing. > > >> - Does this style guide apply just to the software design, or to the >> marketing/brand content (website, business cards), or both? >> >> The style just applies to marketing/brand content - it doesn't apply to > GNOME's software UI (this is covered in our prexisting Human Interface > Guidelines [1]). > > >> - Typography: Is there a reason for the switch from Cantarell (which >> is already used throughout the website and such) to Source Sans Pro? Both >> are fine and simple sans serifs but if you are already using one, what is >> the reason for the switch? >> >> Canterell doesn't render well on the web and isn't good in print. It is > primarily being maintained and developed as a UI font. SSP has additional > benefits like a greater number of weights and better coverage. We're quite > keen to make greater use of light weights in our marketing and brand > materials. > > We did a fairly thorough investigation of the various options available, > before settling on SSP. > > >> - Secondary colors: It may be useful to see color gradients with >> varying saturations and brightnesses. The purple comes off as a bit heavy >> to me, for instance. >> >> Nothing is settled and we could easily change the secondary colours. > Would you be interested in making a few suggestions? > > >> - Visual motifs: What is the context in which the three motifs in the >> first row would be used in? While I understand that the rest of the motifs >> are playing off the wallpaper designs, in the actual sample designs, I'm >> finding that the simple and strong GNOME logo clashes a bit with the >> delicate motifs.Though it does work better, in my opinion, when it is >> filling a shape (for example, in website badges or leaflets). Maybe it >> would be useful to play around with the motif in different color schemes >> to >> make it stronger and less delicate? >> >> Sure! Do you want to send some examples? > > >> - Generally, it may be useful to explain more contexts within the >> style guide. >> >> I certainly agree that the guide needs to be more elaborate. I'm not > entirely sure what you mean by "explain more contexts" though. > > Allan >
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