Thanks, Bernhard, for moving this request to the proper list. What is the Motif you mention? I am not familiar with this term.
--Jean On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 00:37 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi Jean, all > > moving this message to the design list where I think it belongs. > > Please follow up there! > > just one short point from my side: > > I'd propose to use the Motif on the book covers. > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: > > When I published the printed version of "Getting Started with > > LibreOffice" in great haste last year, I put together a cover design > > based on the TDF logo.[1] That same design was used for the more > > recently-published printed version of the Writer Guide. > > > > Today someone wrote to the Documentation list to say how awful the cover > > looks, particularly because of the black border. I agree. I'm not a > > graphic designer, and I didn't have the time to consult anyone else... > > but the time has now come to do so. > > > > One idea I've had (and others expressed a similar idea) was to use the > > colour of the component's icon for the cover border colour. I think that > > would be an improvement, but a more attractive overall design would be > > an even greater improvement. Other ideas are being expressed on the Docs > > list. > > > > So I turn to the Marketing team, and in particular the Art Team, for > > guidance and, I hope, a book cover design. I know that this will take > > some time, so the next book (Calc Guide) will use the original design, > > but with perhaps a different colour than black for the border. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > --Jean > > LibreOffice Documentation Team > > > > [1] > > http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/getting-started-with-libreoffice-33/14703788 > > > > > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
