On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 14:16 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 11:03 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:22 PM, drew jensen <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 03:19 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > >> >> Am 05/05/2012 12:49 AM, schrieb drew: > >> >> > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 17:42 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:24 PM, drew<[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > <snip> > >> >> > > >> >> >>> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I tried rendering the SVG at 50x50 and nothing comes through. I > >> >> >> think > >> >> >> we need something much simpler. I'll look around. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I also noticed now that the exiting art work is 50x500 pixels. They > >> >> >> have two versions of each icon, one for the mouse over where they > >> >> >> darken the image a bit. Clever, but more work for producing new > >> >> >> icons. > >> >> > > >> >> > Well, how about: > >> >> > http://lo-portal.us/aoo/temp/keep-in-touch_aoo.png > >> >> > > >> >> > for a mashup approach. > >> >> > >> >> Also very preasant. However, don't you think it is too high compared > >> >> with the other icons? > >> > > >> > Is it? I put one of other images up next to it, and brought the top > >> > (G+) button up to match the top (the extension jigsaw puzzle piece) - > >> > but I did not try using it on a mockup page, so it could be. > >> > > >> > >> Hi Drew, > >> > >> I did a local build of the website, with your logo in it. Good news > >> is you have the alignment of the normal and hover versions perfect. > >> So it works well in that regard. > >> > >> But we're only getting a partial render in each state. I see the g+ > >> icon and 90% of the Twitter fish. Now, we could muck around with the > >> CSS to show more of that, but that would expand the entire block for > >> that item and put the page out of balance, IMHO. > >> > >> Ideally I think we want to have this icon use the same vertical space > >> as the other icons, i.e., the same visible space, not just the same > >> total 500px space. We have a similar constraint on horizontal size, > >> in order to preserve the text alignment. > >> > >> I wonder if a newspaper icon would work in this context? Keep > >> informed, announcements, news, etc. > > > > Lets look - updated the png > > http://lo-portal.us/aoo/temp/keep-in-touch_aoo.png > > > > Brilliant. It works perfectly. > > Just so we record on the list archives this information for future > generations, what is the magic needed to get the "faded" and "normal" > versions of the icon? Are you changing saturation? Something else? > And by how much?
Adjusting the transparency level for the stroke/fill - how much, by eye, ;-) but the value is available in the svg file referenced. Anyway - if that works I'll quit and remove those files from the temp directory. //drew > > Now to make a page for that to link to. That's just HTML. I can > handle that ;-) > > -Rob > > > you can find the svg format, with the original g+, etc parts justed move > > off page at http://lo-portal.us/aoo/temp/keep-in-touch_aoo.svg > > > > //drew > > > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >> > > >> > //drew > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Marcus > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > >
