On 2016-02-17 22:33, Jimmy Sjölund one.com wrote:
On 2016-02-17 22:23, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 08:44 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 08:39 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
I have an idea, which I do think we should be able to get done. It's
pretty simple, and symbolic. It should not be hard to make it look
good.
These are some possible elements of the image that we could develop
together:
* Incorporate the CoF somehow
* A fairly dark and neutral background color.
* Three fuzzy lights, like stage lights, each one representing a
main
category (blue for audio, but the exact colors for graphics and
video
need to be reevaluated).
* Visual elements from the kind of digital tools we provide, like
sequencer graphics (not a real sequencer, but a simple design), 3D
model
fundamentals, a photograph, that sort of thing
The visual elements could be in a single color, using the category
colors for each. That way, three fuzzy lights may be superfluous, and
the image would be even more focused.
# Did a mockup, but not going to show you yet
I took some time to play around. I found that using three colors for
the
background works pretty well. It sits right, both visually and
symbolically. So, I really feel like doing something with the three
colors as basis is the way to go. I don't have a mockup worthy to show
you, but just want to spill my thoughts on that, in case someone wants
to pick this up and do some stuff with it.
# About the colors
The colors that feel the most right to me are:
* blue for audio (our standard blue, used for our CoF)
* orange for graphics
* purple for video
The logic behind the colors:
Purple is a mix between red and blue, just as video is a mix of audio
and graphics. Orange is not red, but close enough. Pure red may be too
aggressive. On top of that, both orange and purple are used a lot of
Ubuntu vanilla, so there's that too.
If having the colors side by side, purple seems the best fit to have
in
the middle, considering the relationship between the colors. I would
put
blue to the left (which from a western POW is the start of a page).
We are already using those colors in ubuntustudio-menu, but that
doesn't
mean we can't change them, if we want. I would like to revisit the
exact
hue of those though.
# Schedule
I'm not going to work too intensively on this myself during the next
week, at least. But, I will revisit as soon as I'm able.
We should have a final candidate of the default wallpaper ready about
1
month before release (final beta), but we can always make last minute
changes, if we really need to.
Sounds like a plan to me!
Nice! I agree with the direction in terms of colors and direction
I created this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/OfficialXenial
I invite you all to help me keep it up to date.
The look and themeing and iconing has many different branches in
launchpad,
i have listed all those that seem to fit for anything related to look
and feel.
Probably included some that shouldn't be there or missed other, but i
can't
help but notice that it is infact many different , ehm, "sources?"
I need help to understand how these things are packaged. :) To tighten
up the
consistency of the look, we could benefit from tightening up these
branches.
I'm not sure, as y'all know i'm still trying to familiarize myself to
the
launchpad system.
ANyways! lets do this! :)
Yours,
Set
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