As requested, a green to grey theme with a darker sea colour. I
perfer the first version myself as large areas such as the sea
mask are easier on the eye.

I've chucked out all available formats in the software, sorry -
no png. We've got ps, pdf, emf and ai.

http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/Green_to_DGrey_Layout.pdf
http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/DGreen_to_LGrey_Layout.pdf

just change the extension to download the other files.

I imagine there's further tweaks on the colour still to do but
it's probably easier if suggestions include rgb values. I'll work
on pinpointing some top 10 / bottom 10 and some city names.

I think we've got to consider the poster as an asthetic bit of
fun only - you shouldn't read too much into the results.

Andy

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:37 +0100, "Joe Lanman" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I'd be very happy to help out on this!



I agree that green to gray could be a nicer colour theme - can we
get a version like that? I can try messing with colour channels,
but it would be easier to do it from source.



On that note - it would be great to get the image as something
other than pdf - a vector format like eps or high resolution
bitmap (png) would be great.



Just a general question - what is the end goal for this project?
Eg. an A3 poster to sell on the MySociety site? Is it purely
promotional (aesthetic), or more of a straight informatic
(accurate and useful)?



Joe



2009/9/18 Andrew Bailey <[1][email protected]>

  will do.
  On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:42 +0100, "Timothy Green"
  <[2][email protected]>
  wrote:

> Great start. To agree with Tom, I think a colour scheme of grey
to green
> might work better in terms of readability, green of course
being "hot"
> and grey "not". The grid is a bit distracting and doesn't seem
to add
> anything.
>
> As you seem to suggest, I think photos around the edge,
pointing to
> various diverse scenic areas would work - as are a few major
towns and
> perhaps national parks (though maybe the point of SON is more a
focus on
> town prettiness than wilderness?)
>
> -t
>
> Tom Steinberg wrote:
> > If I could suggest priorities they would be:
> >
> > 1. Finding a slightly nicer basic colour scale, from 'hot' to
'not',
> > and a complementary sea colour. This is the most important
decision
> > for making the graphic sing I think. Quite a dark colour for
the sea
> > would be best, I feel.
> >
> > 2. A nice big title along the top
> >
> > 3. Overlaid place names, but not so many it blots out the
information
> > the map contains.
> >
> > Once it has those basic things, it might be 'done', but if it
isn't,
> > those are the basis for working out what optional extras to
add.
> >
> > Joe - is this something you could help with, given your ninja
logo skills?
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
>
>
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