[IAEP] Color combos for the logo

[David Farning]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2008, at 07:00, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>
>> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>> Uploaded 4 more colours (red, yellow, brown, purple), feel free to
>>> remove/overwrite if they are not what was intended (I tried to
>>> stick to
>>> similar saturation and just hit different hues).
>>>
>>>    http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Logo
>>>
>>> BTW: is there a design brief for this somewhere? Like: is the inner
>>> blue
>>> a requirement, or could that be inverted (e.g. variable colour
>>> inside,
>>> blue outline), or can perhaps both colours be varied, what about
>>> black/white (for print), etc, etc.
>>
>> I thought we were just imitating the color pairs or the XO guy, thus
>> both colors should vary.
>
> Yea that's what I thought too, but didn't see that formally stated
> anywhere. The concept of contrasting colour pairs as individual
> identity was/is a strong, unique design element (of the Sugar UI),
> seems to make sense to bring that forward into the Sugar branding
> (using different colour variations suggested the diverse community of
> individuals behind Sugar).

Design is going to be a interesting aspects of the project.  How do we
engage artistic individuals, who often crave freedom and creativity,
to help Eben and Christian make _their_ vision a reality?

david

>> But let's hear what Christian thinks a bout it.
>
> OK, will do.
>
> --Gary
>
>> For our Gitorious instance, I came up with this logo idea:
>>
>>   http://git.sugarlabs.org/
>>
>> Yes, these colors don't match well with the background or perhaps with
>> each other... Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a painter!
>>
>> --
>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>> \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>
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