On 4/2/15 10:24 AM, heith seewald wrote: > I have some ideas I'd like to bounce off you guys about the allura landing > page and logo. I collaborated with two designer friends to come up with > these ideas. Perry <http://perrymerrity.com/> came up the design for the > landing page and Will <http://willleonard.org/> came up with a few logos to > go along with it. > > Here is a prototype landing page complete with a potential logo: > > https://allura-test.appspot.com >
Awesome. So much better than our current page :) My only questions would be to confirm the contribution. That is, make sure background image, icons, and CSS framework (flex.min.css) are contributions that Perry has rights to. Or that they are under an Apache-friendly license. Besides that, I say we switch to this right away. It looks straightforward for us to maintain long-term as we make releases, update text, etc. > Here are other potential logos: > > https://allura-test.appspot.com/logos I like how the wide one looks on the new website. The first or second are more square and could be used in other situations. Maybe we adopt two variations that we use depending on the size needed. E.g. #2 and #3. Or #2 and #5 so the shape of the hammers are consistent. I see there is a little "TM" on the logo on the website, which is perfect. If we use any others we'll need that added too. > > The breakdown: > > These prototypes are trying to communicate the idea that... > > Allura is active, powerful, reliable... and maybe even fun! > > Orange is a confident and optimistic color that invokes exuberance and > vitality. Orange also looks good with the forge picture and the idea of molten iron. > > Blue is often perceived as dependable and strong. Where's the blue? > > The combination of orange with blue accents strikes a good balance between > modern/fun and dependable/powerful. > > > Aesthetics aside, I believe we would also benefit from updating > descriptions and feature breakdowns -- really emphasize the areas we're > better than competing platforms/services. > > To say Allura has Batteries included is an understatement :) Maybe we can > talk about some of them? > > We could also talk about how Allura integrates well with other tools or > existing workflows... The kind of things that will make peoples lives > easier! > > Any thoughts? > -- Dave Brondsema : [email protected] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
