Hello,
Your designs look great! They are calm, functional, well proportioned and are nice to read.
trying to give some usable feedback:
_The drop shadow works better than the glow, it adds contrast. I would tend to use a broader and a little more transparent shadow on the dove though - right now it seems a bit too "visible", if you can hardly see it but recognize immediately when it is toggled on/off you hit the sweet spot (that's how i do it).
_Concerning the colors I would try to stick to what is used already - I think you foster a stronger connection to the look and the event that way.
_The URL should use as much space as possible, to remain readable imho. It also works better because it fits nice to the other text above.
You're absolutely welcome to discard my feedback, since *you* are doing it, the designs are great already :)
On 04/11/11 14:09, Onsemeliot wrote:
Hi people,
attached are three conceptual colour-sets with minor other variations. (I hope the three page PDF attachment gets through on the list.)
I would generally stick with one dove and consider more doves for patterns only...
The short "DFD" wouldn't help anyone because even the webpage doesn't use it. Therefore I left it out as well.
Best Onsemeliot
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 12:39 +0100, Onsemeliot wrote:
Hi Matthias,
I could do some graphics since I finally managed to find at least a few SVG-files at the bottom of the graphics page. (So I don't need to construct the doves from scratch again.)
We should clarify some details on the wanted outcome:
As far as I can see at least some of the texts are using "Yvonne Kaffeesatz" as font face, but I'm not entirely sure about all the texts. Do you want to stay with the same font face or can I use other free font faces instead?
Will the website get transformed as well or will it basically stay the same with a somehow altered header or just logo? (Maybe I should talk to those who will technically adapt the website in order to find out what would be most convenient to them. Whom should I talk to?)
What are the texts you want on the different media? Should I use the old texts, but with the new date?
Did I get right, that you wouldn't use any different colour than blue or green as main colour? Wouldn't it be nice to separate the different years by colours easy to distinguish? So we could use a warmish yellow or bright orange for 2012 for example...
What formats do you need first? (We could add further media and formats later on.)
It looks as if there where no document freedom days in the past. Shouldn't we at least add a rudimentary history section on the page? (I know this is no visual design issue, but it might help to improve the significance of the event if people could actually see, that this day has a history as well.)
Best Onsemeliot
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:32 +0200, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
hi there,
for Document Freedom Day I need some help with designs. At the moment the website looks like that: http://www.documentfreedom.org.
What I need:
- Graphics for the Web (e.g. one to advertise the day 28.02.2012)
- Graphics or complete designs to be uses for promotion materials, t-shirts, buttons, etc.
We should not use a complete other logo, but perhaps you can generate a "cleaner" version of the current one:
- One with DFD + the doves
- Clean one, just one dove
- ... your suggestions
(From my side it does not have to be green, it is also fine to make it blue again, like in the first years.)
Graphics from the past years are available on http://documentfreedom.org/2011/artwork.en.html and on http://wiki.documentfreedom.org/Artwork2011.
For the t-shirts it would be cool to have a:
- "Free your bits" (Sam made a graphic for that https://fsfe.org/graphics/free-your-bits.png)
- "Lord of the files"
- ...
Is someone here able to help with this?
Thanks, Matthias
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