On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote:
A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and
a range of supplies for commercial purposes.
Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile
should be just a palette of colors and the logo.
Ok.
The only additional thing we could do is a custom 'mathy' font face,
incorporating some characters used in math formulas, ...
I don't think that's necessary...
<snip>
In case of a company like IBM... <snip>
You certainly seems to know this stuff! :-)
For LyX, I would say, it's more important to have a logo and template
that look nice and pleasing to the eye.
Ok, agreed.
There will probably be many other sites that use similar color scheme,
unless we do bright yellow on orange design, which is bad for other
reasons. So, a casual user or someone entirely new won't think 'of
course that's LyX color profile', but instead will think 'this design is
nice' or 'this design isn't very nice' where the first reaction is
preferable.
Sounds good.
People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. So,
to sum up, we should have a color scheme that will be shared between
site template and splash screen, and probably use a standard font face
like Verdana or something similar for now, and have the Platypus as the
main recognizable identifier of all things LyX. -andrei
Great, sounds like a plan :-)
I wrote down your thoughts here:
http://www.lyx.org/~chr/www/index.php/Main/GraphicalProfile
Whatever we agree on, we need to document it somewhere. Hmm... maybe I
should have used the wiki instead.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
