Re: Remember the CSS Logo effort

> On Apr 5, 2015, at 17:25 , Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote:
> 
> Saw this today in Cambridge…
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wow!  anyone know what it is?


> 
> --
> Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse weird typos and/or terseness.
> 
>> On 27 Mar 2015, at 14:48, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Oops! I just realized that Steve's email was from a long while back... it was an illusion in my email client...
>> 
>> Anyway, all the rest still holds true, please expect a doodle poll soon to set up a time to talk with the designers.
>> 
>> Regards–
>> –Doug
>> 
>>> On 3/27/15 2:14 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
>>> Hi, Steve–
>>> 
>>> Great timing! I recent restarted talks with Ocupop, the design firm we
>>> all had a meeting with, and he's going to show me some preliminary
>>> designs later today.
>>> 
>>> If all goes well, I'll then set up a session with those in the CSS WG
>>> who are interested, next week if possible, so Michael Nieling can
>>> present it to everyone.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again for your enthusiasm in this project!
>>> 
>>> Regards–
>>> –Doug
>>> 
>>>> On 1/29/14 7:10 PM, Stephen Zilles wrote:
>>>> At the CSS WG F2F in Shenzhen, China last fall Doug Shepers described a
>>>> W3C effort to define a CSS logo and asked for input from the WG. He was
>>>> looking for criteria to feed to a designer (already contracted) that
>>>> would develop some ideas. A mailing list for this was setup
>>>> 
>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-logo-design/
>>>> 
>>>> and a poll was initiated (with a current closure of 2014-02-03)
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/cssbranding/
>>>> 
>>>> Experience has shown that it is harder to fill a blank page than it is
>>>> to comment on someone else’s proposal. With that in mind, I present my
>>>> proposal for a logo, together with the criteria that I had in mind when
>>>> developing it:
>>>> 
>>>> The criteria include:
>>>> 
>>>> 1.Use the initials, “CSS” in the design
>>>> 
>>>> 2.Explicitly show that styling means adding style to basic (unstyled)
>>>> content.
>>>> 
>>>> 3.Keep the design simple and clean (to emphasize that CSS has those
>>>> attributes).
>>>> 
>>>> 4.Make the design roughly square
>>>> 
>>>> How well do I feel I met the criteria:
>>>> 
>>>> Showing the first “S” in a simple font style (Myriad Pro) and the second
>>>> “S” in a more elaborate style (University Roman on the left and Brush
>>>> Script Medium on the right) does suggest the effect of “styling”. The
>>>> “C” has its lower limb extended to an arrow like stroke to suggest the
>>>> transformation aspect of applying a stylesheet. The “C” is an edited
>>>> form of the Myriad Pro “C”, both for simplicity and cleanliness.
>>>> 
>>>> Things that might be done better:
>>>> 
>>>> 1.Try to do a better job of matching the weight of the second “S” to
>>>> that of the first “S”. The left example has too light a weight and the
>>>> right example is a bit too heavy.
>>>> 
>>>> 2.Do the extension of the lower limb of the “C” in a more artistic
>>>> manner.
>>>> 
>>>> So, with that is a beginning, fill in the poll (see above) before it
>>>> closes.
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Zilles
>> 

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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