On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:46:36 -0300 Steven Garrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just finished a simple style guide for the Mozilla Foundation, > Firefox and Thunderbird. They can be found here: > > http://www.mozilla.org/press/images.html#guidelines > > We could probably get them into a Creative Commons license so we could > use them as a starting point. That said, I'm not sure we need a whole > lot more than we already have on the wiki. > > Steven Garrity > Hi, Steven! Looks like the Mozilla Foundation is a little bit ahead once more. :) Concerning the need for more: I've recently visited most homepages of the local user groups. The differences are rather strong, already. It's probably a policy decision outside of the scope of GNOME marketing if these groups should appear integrated into the GNOME world, but we should try to at least appear integrated. A few more arguments: * I've recently seen a mail on the gnome-de-member list asking for style guide (or suggesting one). [1] There seems to be demand for it from designers/GNOME fans. * The suggestions on this mailing list shows there are people to work on it. The guide by Máirín was impressive, wasn't it? Also, Owen and Juan Carlos seem to have a good idea what makes sense/is useful. * It may also lead to a consolidation of the marketing material we currently have. It may prevent that designers reinvent the design wheel al the time. IMHO, such a style guide would be very valuable. It may also contain a broader definition: An 'official' color palette seems useful to prevent design breaks for images on gnome.org or in broschures, for example. Cheers, Claus [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-de-members/2005-June/msg00073.html -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
