On 06/23/2010 04:17 AM, Jef van Schendel wrote:
As described in this ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/55, Planet GNOME uses special "badges" to show who's participating in Google's Summer of Code, and here on Planet Fedora they had FUDCon ribbons to use directly on the hackergotchis.
I'm now making a template for future use. What I have in mind is a simple Inkscape file that everyone can open up, and then change the text and the color easily, before adding it to his or her hackergotchi. I've made some simple mock-ups here:
Glad to see your progress on this.
http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/HackergotchiBadges/mockup1.png (source is at http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/HackergotchiBadges/try2.svg). This is an example of how they would look on Planet F: http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/HackergotchiBadges/example1.png
My intention is to keep them very simple, because space is limited. The middle three columns of "big" badges are 100px wide, which is pretty much the maximum size for a hackergotchi.
Pierros, the new maintainer of the hackergotchi requests page proposed a size increase to 120x120 px (I used to make them at 96x96), so probably that's the constraint: maximum width of 120 px.
What I don't like in your example is the badge covering people faces/mouths, is like they are silenced or terrorists trying to hide. We are space-constrained only on the horizontal, you shouldn't have a problem using more vertical space.