Re: Logo/image guidelines

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:46:36 -0300
Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com> wrote:

> 
> I just finished a simple style guide for the Mozilla Foundation,
> Firefox  and Thunderbird. They can be found here:
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/press/images.html#guidelines
> 
> We could probably get them into a Creative Commons license so we could
> use them as a starting point. That said, I'm not sure we need a whole 
> lot more than we already have on the wiki.
> 
> Steven Garrity
> 

Hi, Steven!

Looks like the Mozilla Foundation is a little bit ahead once more. :)

Concerning the need for more: I've recently visited most homepages of
the local user groups. The differences are rather strong, already.

It's probably a policy decision outside of the scope of GNOME marketing
if these groups should appear integrated into the GNOME world, but we
should try to at least appear integrated.

A few more arguments:

 * I've recently seen a mail on the gnome-de-member list asking for
   style guide (or suggesting one). [1] There seems to be demand for it
   from designers/GNOME fans.
 * The suggestions on this mailing list shows there are people to work
   on it. The guide by Máirín was impressive, wasn't it? Also, Owen and
   Juan Carlos seem to have a good idea what makes sense/is useful.
 * It may also lead to a consolidation of the marketing material we
   currently have. It may prevent that designers reinvent the design
   wheel al the time.

IMHO, such a style guide would be very valuable. It may also contain a
broader definition: An 'official' color palette seems useful to prevent
design breaks for images on gnome.org or in broschures, for example.

Cheers, 
Claus

[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-de-members/2005-June/msg00073.html