Having recently moved from OS X to Xubuntu, in fact my entire creative workflow is GIMP/Inkscape/Scribus-based! :D
I have a few questions first: 1) Can I rebuild the logo with a new libre font, if I can find one? The current font has an air of Comic Sans MS that fails to communicate libre.fm as a serious effort. 2) If I go and find a new typeface would it be preferable to use one of the open source font licenses or will either “free for non-commercial use” or “free for any use” be acceptable also? 3) How free am I in my selection of colors? 4) Will uploading the resulting files to the wiki be fine, should I attach them here in stead or something else? Will get to work as soon as possible, first mockups will probably be how user page content/stats are arranged and visualized, and something to get a general feel for the new visual identity -- sounds ok? On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:15 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: > Carsten Nørgaard wrote: > > Hello :D, > > > > I realize developers might be thinking this is way, way too early in the > > process to be truly worrying about visual appearance, however form and > > function always have to work hand-in-hand. > > > > Would now be the right time to provide visual mockups of features to > > assist in making a good UI experience for libre.fm? > > > > Will there be an opening/competition/event of some sort to gather > > recommendations for visual appearance/identity for libre.fm at some > > point? I recommend planning for something like that and defining at what > > stage of the development process it will be the best time to implement a > > better visual appearance. > > > > Because to be frank (all of us knowing this already), the design of > > libre.fm does not validate in terms of identity, usability, aesthetics > > or consistency. > > > > A quick read of http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofeyecandy/ > > should provide arguments for why this issue should not be ignored until > > at the very last moment. > > > > > > I specialize in interface design for the Web, so if any help is needed > > point me in the right direction and I’ll contribute :D > > > > I am particularly interested in making libre.fm visually independent > > from last.fm. > > Take a look at http://alpha.dev.libre.fm/ and you'll see some of the > progress I'm making. > > A mockup, based around that would be great. > > A few things you should wary of... > > * Libre.fm is a free software project, so we ask that all contributions > are made with free software. There are degrees to which this holds true, > but please, use Inkscape and GIMP, not Illustrator and Photoshop. > > * The logo is pretty much finalized -- reusing the font from the logo, > may or may not work, but it's a free as in freedom font -- please only > use these kinds of fonts (not Arial, Helvetica, etc) for any images. > > * Our CSS handles the fonts used by non-images in the browser. > > With that said, I look forward to seeing your mockup, and hopefully we > can implement it in the site. I am certainly keen to have a great site. > > When can you have something for us? > > Best, > > matt _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
