Re: Feedback sought on new WPD icon set

I don't think we should use the W3 logos as a way to reinforce a 
relationship.  Stewards shouldn't get that kind of attention within the 
docs plus they don't fit with our style too well.  A lot of effort is 
being made by a community member to make custom logos that fit our 
design; I think that should take precedent over the ease of just using 
W3's logos.

-Garbee

On 12/3/2012 12:36 PM, Chris Mills wrote:
>   While I agree that we should use establish conventions wherever possible, do these logs really fit what we want? There is a semantics logo that could be used for Markup, yes. There is a CSS3 logo that could be used for CSS. But there isn't exactly one that suits JavaScript, or SVG, or General web concepts.
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> Chris Mills
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> On 3 Dec 2012, at 17:11, Eliot Graff <Eliot.Graff@microsoft.com> wrote:
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>> I agree with Peter in that we should be using the W3C HTML logos (and other appropriate standards bodies’ logos) whenever possible. [1] We want to reinforce our relationships with standards bodies as much as possible and give readers familiar navigational aids, rather than asking them to learn new ones, even if they are wonderfully designed.
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>> I’ve added a comment to the bug.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Eliot
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>> [1] http://www.w3.org/html/logo/#downloads
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>> From: Taylor Costello [mailto:nottaylorcostello@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 9:03 AM
>> To: Peter Lubbers
>> Cc: Chris Mills; seba@google.com; public-webplatform@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Feedback sought on new WPD icon set
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>> I like the icons so far, I think they would be better with colors off the logo (or other colors on the wiki). Orange and blue are nice and contrast well together but I'm not really sure how well they would go with the style of the overall site. You have an eye for color though. I also think it would be nice if the icons were different colors (that you think suited the category), it would be fun to design templates around those colors and make them change between categories so the wiki was more interesting to look at (such as CSS being orange, and making it so the templates will switch to orange if the topic is set to CSS or something). You could do this with the switch function with the ParserFunctions extension.
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>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Peter Lubbers <peterlubbers@google.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Chris, and nice work Sebastien.
>> Just curious, have you considered using some of the feature elements defined on the HTML5 logo page (http://www.w3.org/html/logo/)? For example, the markup, CSS, Graphics, subcategories etc. Some of those are already fairly well established.
>> --Peter
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>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> As part of the work we are doing to improve the UX/styling of the landing pages, Sebastien has been working on creating some new icons. He has posted a set of 6 to the following bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19386. Can you have a look (it's the newest attachment of the ones on there), and give him some feedback?
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>> thanks!
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>> Chris Mills
>> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
>> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C
>> Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is-finally-published)
>>
>> * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
>> * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques:http://dev.opera.com
>> * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/
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