Thanks, Lodewijk We've seen a lot of comments about the size of the puzzle globe, and I don't disagree that it might benefit from being increased in size slightly. I feel this might also affect the overall contrast and definition. The whole usability team is collecting feedback on this, and part of that is the overall shape and size of the identity.
Thanks jay On May 13, 2010, at 5:37 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi Jay, > > thanks for your update. I am glad that the characters etc have been so > thoroughly prepared, and I followed some of it - great team effort > indeed. > > However, I am missing why it was decided to decrease the size of the > logo. It definitely looks more professional, but also somewhat less > friendly to me. Maybe it is just me, maybe not - I just would like to > understand the rationale first. > > And is there any chance that the middle horizontal line is made > slightly less intense? Right now, the attention is drawn there (at > least for me) instead of the open part at the top. It gives me a > slight impression as if the bowl is about to burst. Which is of course > a valid representation of the truth with all community uproar lately, > but I don't think it should be our message :) > > Best, Lodewijk > > 2010/5/13 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/5/13 Jay Walsh <jwa...@wikimedia.org>: >>> SVG versions of the new globe, and the Wikipedia identity can be found here: >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks >>> >>> I don't believe all of those assets have migrated to Commons yet. >>> >>> >> >> Hope you won't forget to change the logo here: >> >> http://www.wikipedia.org/ >> >> :-) >> >> >> -- >> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz >> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek >> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ >> http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
