On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke, > > I found this e-mail and, as there are regularly discussions about how > to make the Pyjamans project and its website more attractive, here's a > question of mine related to those geeky t-shirts: > > What is the story behind the Pyjamas logo?
my drawing ability is rather strange: it's stick-men like. so i decided to follow a minimalist path. when doing sketches, i would use the minimum lines to express things. two semi-circles, a circle for a head, and some lines above: three lines for grass, and now you have a couple of people dancing and celebrating, in a garden. other sketches that i've done (and someone destroyed! waa!) include a lady made out of about... 6 lines / curves, but when turned on its side looked like a pair of lovers. the best one i did, it was only about 2in across, but if you turned it through 45 degrees several times, the picture changed... _eight_ times! > What's the meaning of the > two arcs, or the person? it's a celebration. yaaaay! an easy way to program the web, yaay! :) > Why are violet and blue/cyan the dominant > colours? because they're bright colours and i have trouble "imagining" colours. vibrant and primary colours seem to get through whatever strangeness is going on in my tiny brain. thus i "approve" of those kinds of colours, when picking them, and less bright colours just look.. dull and lifeless. > Same story: What's the story behind the pyjs.org website that you > created? technically? i decided that pyjamas own web site had to be a pyjamas application. also, being a pyjamas application allowed me to make things easier both for myself and also people using the site. you can add questions to the FAQ *without* recompiling the web site, because each question is loaded with AJAX. also, hyperlinks with # in them are tied into the "tab" mechanism, so #FAQ anywhere in _any_ page (in any tab), if you click on that link, will get caught by the History system and will open that tab. > Why violet and pink as the main colours? ah that actually came from the original site source code that james picked: i liked it (because of the reasons above) so stuck with it. l.
