Re: Remember the CSS Logo effort

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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