I've just never been the biggest fan of it in general honestly. The colors are just a bit striking and it never felt like they meld well with colors in a logos or sites to me. I realize that's pretty much borderline blasphemy though =D.
I had always hoped that the ASF would release a greyscale or more stylized feather but I'm still waiting for that to come. ---------------- Mike On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) < [email protected]> wrote: > Mike what is your objection to the feather? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 17, 2014, at 3:15 PM, "Michael Joyce" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is looking amazing Chris! > > > > I had a few pieces of feedback that I figured I would throw your > direction. > > I also realize these are early mockups so if I'm being too nitpicky > ignore > > me =D > > > > I'm really liking V2 of the main page that you mocked up. Think it looks > > really great! (ocw-home-v2-960-dev-00.jpeg) > > > > I would love to see a version of the logo where > > - "open" is yellow instead of the light blue > > - Where there's no feather > > - A version that tries to fit in "Apache Open Climate Workbench" where > > "Apache" is yellow and the rest is blue. Might be a bit challenging to > fit > > all of that though I'm sure =D > > > > The overall colorscheme feels kinda dark to me. I think personally I'm a > > bigger fan of a lighter/brighter scheme like Sparks ( > > http://spark.apache.org/). Not sure how horrible it would be to change > that > > though. That being said, I do like the choice of blue. Feels very > climate-y > > to me. I think green would fits climate-y as well, but I realize that > would > > be a huge pain in the bum to try to bring in. > > > > Really really love the icons that you made. I think they're super > awesome. > > Really like the general page layout that you have going on in v2 > > Really like the logo abbreviation of Apache Climate with the yellow > "Apache" > > > > This is awesome! I'm super excited. Awesome job Chris! > > > > > > -- Joyce > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> FRICKING LOVE this Hawley, go Hawley go! > >> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > >> Chief Architect > >> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) > >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > >> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 > >> Email: [email protected] > >> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department > >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: <Joyce>, "Michael J (398J)" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:03 PM > >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, rcmes-dev > >> <[email protected]> > >> Cc: "Hawley, Christopher R (172B)" <[email protected]> > >> Subject: OCW Website Ideas - Work in Progress > >> > >>> Forwarding this on behalf of Christopher Hawley. I think the mockups > are > >>> looking great! Really appreciate Chris taking the time to mock > something > >>> up like this. Feedback is always welcome. I¹m going to pester Chris a > >>> bunch and drag him onto the mailing > >>> list so he can participate as well :) > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Michael J. Joyce > >>> Engineering Applications Software Engineer > >>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems > >>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory > >>> California Institute of Technology > >>> 4800 Oak Grove Drive > >>> Pasadena, California 91109 > >>> Mail Stop: 158-242 > >>> Tel: (818) 354-7550 > >>> Fax: (818) 393-1370 > >> > >> >
