On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:40 PM, J Chris Anderson <jchris@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:21 PM, James Fisher wrote:
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> > Apalling internet connection atm. Try:
> http://i41.tinypic.com/156aeds.jpg
> >
>
> I really like the simplicity.
>
>
Thanks.
> I think you will have a hard time convincing people to change the word mark
> associated with the current CouchDB / Relax logo. If you can go back to the
> old (less relaxing) font and type-setting for that,
Mmm, I do wonder how ingrained it is. I suppose the pros and cons are:
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Myriad (if that is what it is) pros:
* Expensive. Possibly gives a subconscious feel of luxury.
* Already used. If (if) CouchDB already has a well-ingrained brand
identity, it's wise to keep it.
* Presumably has a much better character set if it's ever going to be used
extensively (I doubt it).
cons:
* Expensive. Even my own warez collection of fonts hasn't managed to hoover
it up. I doubt many people except professional graphic artists own a
genuine copy.
* Extensively used by Apple (http://www.apple.com/ I don't think there's
much they produce that *isn't* in Myriad). I suppose you could call that a
pro if you want to piggyback; but I don't think the CouchDB identity fits
very well with brushed aluminium. I don't want to kick back on an aluminium
couch.
* (my own feeling is that it is) a bit too formal. It has a "friendly
high-class business" feel (can't find the words there). E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_%28typeface%29 mentions it's used by All
Nippon business class flights.
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Candela pros:
* I think it looks like a couch, in a hard-to-define way.
* Free (and libre) (at least for the purposes of @font-face and any other
CouchDB literature, AFAICT from the license).
* Untrammelled by other prominent commercial use -- making it potentially
highly distinctive as "that CouchDB font".
cons:
* CouchDB community rebellion against it? (?!)
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> and perhaps drop the saturation on the Cyan (light-blue-grey would be nice
> I think) you'd be getting somewhere.
>
I agree with you there, I think. Alternatively, turn up the brightness.
Doing a bit of both helps.
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> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Julian Moritz <mailings@julianmoritz.de
> >wrote:
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> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> James Fisher schrieb:
> >>> I've no idea if I can attach PNGs here, but here goes. Find attached
> >>> one proposed design. Only Inkscape atm, but I should be able to
> convert
> >>> to HTML with little fuss. A few notes:
> >>>
> >>> Let me know if
> >>>
> >>
> >> no png attached. Seems you've been interupted while writing this email?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Julian
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Noah Slater <nslater@me.com
> >>> <mailto:nslater@me.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 13 Apr 2010, at 13:54, James Fisher wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Certainly will do. I'm doing some rough sketches now; might get
> >>> something
> >>>> up in the next couple of days.
> >>>
> >>> Please take a look at these designs:
> >>>
> >>> Homepage:
> >>> http://twitpic.com/pme28/full
> >>>
> >>> Homepage/Downloads:
> >>> http://twitpic.com/pmetj/full
> >>>
> >>> Homepage/Screenshots:
> >>> http://twitpic.com/pmevr/full
> >>>
> >>> Wiki:
> >>> http://twitpic.com/pmexo/full
> >>>
> >>> Wiki/Syntax reference:
> >>> http://twitpic.com/pmf2r/full
> >>>
> >>> I think we all agreed at the time that this was a good way forward
> >>> for the site.
> >>>
> >>> Search the dev mailing list for "Website redesign" and maybe get in
> >>> touch with:
> >>>
> >>> maddiin <maddiin@googlemail.com <mailto:
> >> maddiin@googlemail.com>>
> >>>
> >>> He was doing most of the work on this last time!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> N
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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