On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:07:09PM +0100, Jacob Hallén wrote: > Conference badges is a subject on which I have some fairly strong opinions. I > designed the badges for EP 2003 and EP 2004. > > - The first and foremost function of the badge is to show the wearers name so > that others can read it. This means that the name should be as large as it > reasonably can, in a font that is as readable as possible. Using all capitals > reduces readability. If you want to distinguish between christian name and > surname, write them on different lines. Make the text black on white, for the > best contrast. You can colour the rest of the badge all you like, but keep a > white background for the name. > > - Other things that need to be on the badge are an indication that the badge > is for EP2008 (showing that the wearer is accredited at the conference) and > other useful information about the person. I put the country code of the > participants home country, the persons organisation and the email address on > the badge. IRC nick and interests at the conference are other useful ideas. > Showing if the person is staff, speaker etc is also a good piece of > information. > > - An important observation is that there is an enormous difference in the > length of people's names. It is nice to vary the size of the font to adapt to > this. Otherwise just about everyone has a lot of unused space on their badge. > The longest christian name in 2004 was Jean-Phillipe and the longest surname > was Nordgård-Hansen. The longest email address was > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - I think it is important to keep the amount of information on the badge > small. Anything that doesn't have a clear function and use should be removed. > In Edward Tufte's terminology, there shouldn't be any "chart junk".
+99 to all of this. Marius Gedminas -- EMACS is a good OS. The only thing it lacks is a decent text-editor.
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