[Design-team] Hackergotchi Google SoC labels

[Nicu Buculei]

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.

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