Re: Remember the CSS Logo effort

Saw this today in Cambridge…

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> 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
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