Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Yes, that would be really helpful. For the Card we already have it:
- SmartCard bright green: 50,0,100,0 (CMYK), or Pantone: 376C -
SmartCard dark green & logo: 70,0,100,0 (CMYK), or Pantone: 361C
Who can help to find colors as David suggested? At the moment we need a fast decision for:
- Printing ~5000 leaflets for the Fellowship (like the green on
this http://download.fsfeurope.org/tmp/fellowship-customizable-leaflet-blank.pdf)
This leaflet was clearly produced for printing - if you open it with a standard acrobat reader (or kpdf), it displays the green quite like the web colors below. In Ghostview however, its much brighter, so I would guess that its CMYK colors. I can read that it was done in scribus, so maybe there is a source file for this floating around somewhere? The file is not useable in itself however, I cannot even open it in scribus itself.
- webcolor (for the green header on http://www.fsfe.org/, the two
greens for the webversion of the card http://www.fsfe.org/design/fsfe/images/fsfe_card.jpg) or do you think they are ok?
I think they are at least quite faithful to the actual card. Let me reproduce the values here:
Bright Green: RBG: #8dc94f HSL: 63, 135, 140 CMYK: 30, 0, 61, 21 (estimated of course)
Dark Green: RGB: #6cba4a HSL: 72, 114, 130 CMYK: 42, 0, 60, 27 (again, estimated)
I must also say that I like it a bit toned down and used sparingly, but that may be just personal preference. I have of course no idea how the Fellowship came to this color scheme and what was decided in terms of "Corporate" Identity - how the color is to be used and so on. Might be a good idea to put together at least a page that references how and where logo and colors are to be used. It should be something that fits on one or at most two pages of paper so that you can have a look and it immediately answers the design question you were having.
I'm again speaking for myself here, but I think this could help improve coherence and uniformity in the outward appearance of the Fellowship.
take care, David