Re: Brochure for potential sponsors: need help!

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:35 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Stormy Peters wrote:
> > Let me know what you need from me. I think I have all the text below 
> > unless someone has feedback or suggestions on it.
> Kalle Persson and myself spent some time on this last night and here is 
> a sketch.
> Front and back: 
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-outside.png
> Inside: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-inside.png
>
> Source: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/foundation-folder-sketch.svg
>
> This would be printable in only two colors (black+green), so it would be 
> relatively cheap to print.
> Some text blocks ended up a bit small in size, and some parts felt a bit 
> massive. Any darlings we can kill?
> Let me know if you have any feedback. I will go ahead and lay this out 
> in Scribus now.

Might be different when it's actually on paper (things usually
are), but I find the white text on green background on the back
cover incredibly hard to read.  It's one thing to use this for
headings and eye-catchers, but it's just not enough contrast
for extended reading.

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Shaun