On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:10 -0300, Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 17:06, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
I have to be honest, I'm not impressed with the new header pieces. They don't fit in with the wiki's theme, they are completely irrelevant, and they waste a lot of space. On lower resolutions, a visitor might have to scroll most of a page to get to any useful content.
Me neither.
We need artwork that is consistent, lightweight, and can be worked into the current themes. If we really want context-sensitive artwork, we should try to work out a way to include that artwork as part of the wiki header, where it could fill some of the already-wasted space instead of wasting even more. Another consideration is in our ability to produce matching pieces, such as when a new project is formed. Having to ask a particular person to create a new piece using his proprietary software is only going to cause problems in the future.
One day before the new logo guidelines came, I created a new compatible logo to put in our Wiki, to overwrite the current old one. This new "temporary" logo uses the new Fedora logo instead of the generic one currently in Wiki.
They complained that the Logo isn't following the guidelines, but didn't say what guideline it wasn't following. Looking at the guidelines I found out that I was not following the "Clear Space" rule. Ok, I gave up, IMO there was no good way to create a new logo for Wiki and follow this guideline.
Looking today at the proprietary image format about a new Wiki design, I realized that the design itself isn't following the "clear space" guideline too. Ironic.
So I suggested (and I'm bringing this discussion here) to extend the Logo Guidelines to create Sub-Projects Logos, like for Fedora Extras, Fedora Documentation, Fedora (Brazil), Fedora (France), and so on. The current guidelines does not allow us to do this in a pretty way because of the "clear space" rule. What do you think?
Brand dilution is a bad idea especially when the division is based on region.
Rahul