<div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ed McNierney </font><span dir="ltr"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a>></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Folks -<br><br>
It's my impression that the boot animation in grayscale is an equally important part of the XO design. IIRC, we went to some effort to use a non-standard Fedora badge in order to retain the grayscale color scheme. So if we're going to add a Sugar Labs graphic we should keep to the same scheme.<br>
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On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Sean DALY wrote:<br><br>
> Colors (and different ones every time ;-) are an integral part of the<br>
> Sugar Labs branding.<br>
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> And, we specifically chose to link boot logo colors to releases for<br>
> SoaS precisely to aid everyone in identifying the versions :-)<br>
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> thanks<br>
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> Sean<br>
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Bernie Innocenti <</font>
<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">bernie@codewiz.org</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">> wrote:<br>
>> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 12:00 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:<br>
>>> Yay for imagemagick Bernie !<br>
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>>> can there be colors in the logo?<br>
>><br>
>> Since everything else, including Fedora Remix logo, is rendered in a<br>
>> subtle grey scale, I thought that something colorful in the corner would<br>
>> have been a little too showy.<br>
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>> If nobody is opposed, I'd also like a colorful logo to break the<br>
>> monotony of the boot sequence: the color pair would change on every<br>
>> release, helping users identify the version of Sugar running on their<br>
>> computer.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> // Bernie Innocenti - </font><a href="http://codewiz.org/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">http://codewiz.org/</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br>
>> \X/ Sugar Labs - </font><a href="http://sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">http://sugarlabs.org/</font></a></div></div></blockquote><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">The OLPC/Sugar color design is described here, </font><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Colors"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Colors</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Generally, gray-scale is used for non-personal elements, color for personal</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">products such as Journal Activity instances.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Extending this a bit, one might enliven the sugarlabs logo at the final</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">frame, just before the Learner's Home view appears, connecting it more</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">closely to the Sugar Learner environment than the earlier boot, which is more the responsibility of GNU/Linux and the distribution packaging.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> --Fred</font></div><div><br></div></div>