- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:48:47 -0400
- To: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, w3c-css-wg <w3c-css-wg@w3.org>, public-logo-design@w3.org
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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