On Wednesday 17 February 2010 17:24:27 pm res wrote: > On 17.02.2010 12:32, Denis Washington wrote: > > It was mentioned several times on this list that the website may need a > > fresher look, and therefore I played around with Inkscape the last few > > days to mock something up. I'd now like to present the results of this. > > Looks nice. For my personal taste, the current color scheme is somewhat > too pastel-y. > Besides my subjective opinion, since the shades of blue are relatively > light, there is not much contrast between the white background or text. > So darkening things would probably improve readability.
The pastely-ness was a deliberate descision - from my experience, such a color scheme generally gives a feeling of professionalism, and that impression was what I wanted to archieve. I might overestimate this effect, however. > > > When looking at those screenshots, you probably will have noticed that I > > didn't use the current official CrystalSpace logo, but a simplified, > > monochrome-blue version. In combination with the site design, I also > > would like to propose this new logo; I find it's clearness appealing, > > and think such a logo design would feel more professional than the > > current one. As can be seen, I also designed very similar logos for CEL > > and CELstart. (The current three icons have very different styles and > > don't have much of a stylistic coherence, IMO.) > > They look more coherent indeed. > However, to make same somewhat more distinctive, perhaps consider use of > _different_ colors after all? E.g. the celstart logo now is a red > rocket, so maybe give the logo a red tint. CEL could be, dunno, green. > (If the logos are reduced - e.g. for use as OS icons - having only a > blue 'c' and the respective shard thingies may make the logos look too > much alike. Color would be another 'clue' there.) Different colors are indeed a good idea. In fact, I like the colors you propose. I will experiment with that. > > Just one thing that irks me is the wire cube in the CS3D logo. It > doesn't really fit IMO. > This can be easily removed. I must have been in a too playful mood when I added it. ;) > > There is also another, more subtle change that the mockups suggest: a > > small change in how the term "CrystalSpace" is used. Currently, > > "CrystalSpace" and "CrystalSpace 3D" are interchangable in that they > > both mean the 3D engine. I propose to use "CrystalSpace 3D" for the > > engine instead, making "CrystalSpace" the name of the complete platform > > - that is, CrystalSpace 3D + CEL + CELstart. Thus, everyone working on > > one of these projects (or any other project that might be developed > > under the CrystalSpace umbrella in the future) would be part of the > > broader "CrystalSpace community". Admittedly this is a purely cosmetic > > change, but one that, in my opinion, would signal a greater belonging of > > CEL(start) to the CrystalSpace project. > > Since "CrystalSpace 3D" and "CrystalSpace" are already used synonymously > it might be better to use additional "qualifiers" if when clarity is > needed, such as "CrystalSpace 3D engine" for the engine, "CrystalSpace > project"/"community" for the umbrella. > > (I'm not sure, but I think the "3D" kind of seeped into the name when > the domain crystalspace.org fell to a domain grabber and we had to > settle for crystalspace3d.org instead ...) This would be another, if slightly more ackward, solution. But I don't think it would be hard to adjust to the "CrystalSpace" / "CrystalSpace 3D" difference, and taking that route would make for a somewhat nicer branding for advertising (in the open-source sense, that is). Otherwise, there is always the chance of confusion of CrystalSpace-the-engine and CrystalSpace-the- complete-development-kit. Or exotic questions like "is the CrystalSpace community the community working on CrystalSpace or on CEL(start) too?" The suggested branding change would provide clarity. Regards, Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
