= How to continue = The title page should be in line with the internal design. There has been no decision on layout and fonts, yet. As Kevin does the work with Latex and appears to be very educated about typography, he should be left in charge there. I created layout proposals, but told him to take them as such: just proposals.
We will also need a list of icons to be used inside the document. So we will have to wait for the internal layout and font selection until the title page can be finalized. I propose that we continue the title page design with a text-only stage. Just black text on white ground. Only the title "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04". With optional Circle-of-Friends (Ubuntu logo). This way we can focus on the choice of font and the layout of the title. The exact placement on the page and the margins are not that important at this stage. This also works around the disagreements. As a preparation, it would be good to have a list of free fonts with extended latin character sets, as the choice should be suitable for a bit more than just English. How should we handle translations of the title string? In addition to the just text stage, we could also create color palettes. just rectangles of colors that work in harmony and that should match our desired tone. This can be tricky, as the impact of colors depends on their context, how they are paired, foreground vs background, relative size of the area covered. But at least trying to tackle this on such an abstract level might yield interesting results we wouldn't get to see otherwise. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
