For the logos, the blue in particular stands out as having the
background word balloon almost disappearing into the bar color. The
rest seem to contrast more with their backgrounds.
And please design a new favicon, too. :-)
-Ralf
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Three letters is almost unworkable in that small an area. Most use one or at most two. When we moved the site I tried my hand at one, but I am no artist. I wound up just using a G inside a word balloon. The files are in svn in the history somewhere, in the media folder most likely.
-Ralf
On Aug 5, 2010 5:35 PM, "Bobby Grace" <johnrobe...@gmail.com> wrote:Thanks! I didn't want to cut out editing/user stuff or the search
> The different scales look good.
options for any particular browser size (especially mobile). This
design should handle both.
> For the logos, the blue in particular stands out as having the
> background word balloon almost ...
I agree, not sure how I missed that. :P I'll tone down the saturation
a bit.
Planning on it, but it will probably depend on the color. I toyed
> And please design a new favicon, too. :-)
around with one and it's difficult to get the both the bubble and text
in with having it become unreadable. Working on it.
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Mine too! I don't have anything to add, but I do like everything I've
seen so far.
Second favorite: Red :-)
None of the other colors grab me as much.
Blue speaks to stability and reliability, which are characteristics that we
consider distinguishing points for ourselves. Red speaks of excitement and
energy, which is something we're trying to increase after a long period of
relative lethargy. I think the saturated blue adds a bit of excitement to an
otherwise sedate color.
I'd rather avoid the black-and-white or gray logos even though the top one, in
particular, looks quite sharp. Comicbookdb.com (the only similar site that gets
a comparable amount of traffic) has a gray design so I think a vibrant color is
good to set us apart.
I also really like the stacked stair-step words :-)
thanks,
-henry
What about blue with an orange balloon? (or vice versa, or any other two colors together)
-Ralf
On Aug 6, 2010 6:36 PM, "Henry Andrews" <andrew...@yahoo.com> wrote:
My favorite is actually still the super-saturated blue. I agree that the logo
needs something to make it pop a bit more, but I love the vibrancy of that
color.
Second favorite: Red :-)
None of the other colors grab me as much.
Blue speaks to stability and reliability, which are characteristics that we
consider distinguishing points for ourselves. Red speaks of excitement and
energy, which is something we're trying to increase after a long period of
relative lethargy. I think the saturated blue adds a bit of excitement to an
otherwise sedate color.
I'd rather avoid the black-and-white or gray logos even though the top one, in
particular, looks quite sharp. Comicbookdb.com (the only similar site that gets
a comparable amount of traffic) has a gray design so I think a vibrant color is
good to set us apart.
I also really like the stacked stair-step words :-)
thanks,
-henry
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Oh and forgot to mention I don't think we need the "the" in the full name. It would free up the words a little and you'd still get the step effect.
-Ralf
On Aug 6, 2010 6:36 PM, "Henry Andrews" <andrew...@yahoo.com> wrote:
My favorite is actually still the super-saturated blue. I agree that the logo
needs something to make it pop a bit more, but I love the vibrancy of that
color.
Second favorite: Red :-)
None of the other colors grab me as much.
Blue speaks to stability and reliability, which are characteristics that we
consider distinguishing points for ourselves. Red speaks of excitement and
energy, which is something we're trying to increase after a long period of
relative lethargy. I think the saturated blue adds a bit of excitement to an
otherwise sedate color.
I'd rather avoid the black-and-white or gray logos even though the top one, in
particular, looks quite sharp. Comicbookdb.com (the only similar site that gets
a comparable amount of traffic) has a gray design so I think a vibrant color is
good to set us apart.
I also really like the stacked stair-step words :-)
thanks,
-henry
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The two links (editing and log out) currently seem slightly odd to me grouped
into one box. If there were three it wouldn't seem as odd but it makes the box
look kind of like a weird double-button to me. Don't put too much stock in this
comment, though, I'm still getting used to it. I just tend to write down all of
my reactions :-)
thanks,
-henry
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Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 3:41:11 PM
Subject: Re: [gcd-tech] Re: Latest Wireframes and Logo concept
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My order of preference: 1) orange 2) blue 3) red 4) green The others don't really do much for me. -Lou --- On Fri, 8/6/10, Henry Andrews <andrew...@yahoo.com> wrote: |
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- Don Milne
Ralf Haring wrote:
>
> What about blue with an orange balloon? (or vice versa, or any other
> two colors together)
>
> -Ralf
>
>> On Aug 6, 2010 6:36 PM, "Henry Andrews" <andrew...@yahoo.com
This is not actually a reason not to use orange for the GCD. It's just an
explanation as to why I am personally unlikely to ever favor it. If everyone
else loves it, I'll go along. Reluctantly :-)
I see what you mean about the white overlay. I think it looks pretty good on
the blue, but not as good. And it doesn't work well for me on the orange or
red. The blue with black overlay still looks best to me, with the red a close
second, but as noted, I'm biased against the orange.
thanks,
-henry
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BTW, one of the things I was suggesting was a lighter blue- in the direction of
turquoise perhaps? not *that* much lighter/greener, but it would make the black
overlay more contrast-y. Also thanks for explaining the color effects in
addition to showing them to us. It's helpful to understand the principles
behind the impressions.
thanks,
-henry
(who is now recalling that it's not just his current job that uses orange- two
jobs ago I worked somewhere for nearly four years that used orange as an accent
color and in a lot of the hallway paint colors. Orange == corporate to me :-)
The new design will be obvious enough something new so that we don't
need to change the colour...
I like the search box with the selection boxes below the text box. The
'Editing' and 'Log Out' maybe could use a bit of visual separation, i.e.
a bit of light red inbetween ?
The general links in the footer work nicely, it is the place where these
things are found nowadays.
Can't say too much about the design inbetween since I don't know what
would be where :-)
Overall, like the changes. Less border lines...
Jochen
I don't like the red too much, I associated it too much with newssites
like spiegel.de (or times and newsweek in the US). I would think we go
with our long standing 'some kind of blue' corporate identity ?
I like staying with one color. So if we're going to put in dividers I'd rather
see a different shade of blue, or white/black/gray. Although I'll defer to
Bobby's understanding of color here.
> The general links in the footer work nicely, it is the place where these
> things are found nowadays.
>
> Can't say too much about the design inbetween since I don't know what
> would be where :-)
>
> Overall, like the changes. Less border lines...
Indeed.
thanks,
-henry
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I meant the background color in use. In the wireframe it is red,
although some of us prefer blue, so whatever we choose.
But as you said, wait for Bobby.
Jochen
> > Bobby's understanding of color here.
>
> I meant the background color in use. In the wireframe it is red,
> although some of us prefer blue, so whatever we choose.
Oh right. One thing I noticed is that when I load the wireframes, the scaling
makes the link underlines for "Editing" and "Log Out" disappear, which is what
made me think they needed some separation. When I resized it to full size the
link underlines are clear and they provide enough separation for me.
thanks,
-henry
If you want to look at an unsuccessful attempt.
-Ralf
Bobby, I'd say feel free to use orange (or whichever finalist color strikes your
fancy) as you move on with other parts of the design. We'll come back to
finalize the color, and that would be a good time to bring up how colors might
impact usability, too.
thanks,
-henry
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