[Webcom] RE: [Viscom-dev] Corporate Identity

[Tyler Mitchell]

I understand the desire to use green, but I don't see the logic in  
changing the header to green only to drop the colour logo and use a  
white one? Hence the current contrasting colour.  Our logo is more  
connected to us that is the green colour, is it not?

I'd rather make the header white and use our fullest colour logo to  
keep it clean.  A few companies do it well:
http://www.novell.com/
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.productdesignforums.com/
http://www.designforum.com/
etc..

I can change the header colour but we must be firm on the decision  
because getting into changing it takes a bit of time - it's not just  
changing a single colour number.  Gradient or no gradient?  I have to  
're-round' the image corners, and do some other things to allow IE to  
view it properly, etc.

Other GIMP gurus are welcome to mock it up and I'll help post it.

Tyler

On 28-Jan-07, at 3:11 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Hi WebCom,
> could you please make sure that the header of the OSGeo website is  
> flat
> green. There is a pantone number that has be tranlsated to RGB  
> values, its
> noted in the Wiki http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Logo. Michael,  
> maybe you
> want to check back that this really is the final color.
>
> In order to build strong corporate identity etc. we want to make  
> sure that
> OSGeo is green, the current blending with blue looks sort of  
> unmotivated.
> Blue is *the* standard corporate color and used by many businesses
> including IBM (Big Blue). OGC's corporate color is also blue and to  
> make
> it nice an deasy for people to see the difference green is perfect.  
> (((I
> personally do not even like green that much but it is important  
> that we
> stick to what we have decided))).
>
> I guess the logo would then best be cut out in white as had been  
> done in
> the community.osgeo.org prototype (that one could be still around
> somewhere?). Trying to include the green logo with a white or grey box
> background probably looks awkward too.
>
> At a later stage we might want to exchange the header area with nice
> images, maps, little green people and so on but in the meantime  
> that we
> have more pressing things on our hands please make it simple flat  
> green.
>
> Bets regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> On Sun, January 28, 2007 00:27, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>> Yes, ditto, I agree too...  The usage guidelines, while not  
>> finalized,
>> aren't going to change any more in terms of color content or  
>> anything like
>> that -- and I certainly don't want to open up a discussion about  
>> exactly
>> which shade of blue to use :-)
>>
>> -mpg
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viscom-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Jason Birch
>> Sent: Sat 1/27/2007 3:01 PM
>> To: Visibility Committee Discussion List; webcom at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: RE: [Viscom-dev] Corporate Identity
>>
>> I agree with you 100% Arnulf.  I believe that it's not green  
>> because of
>> expediency; I don't think that a decision was made by webcom about  
>> this
>> anyway...
>>
>> We're still waiting on a final copy of the logo / branding  
>> guidelines, but
>> I believe the greens are fairly well defined in the draft.
>>
>> It will be a bit of a problem to make the main logo work on a green
>> background, but maybe some creative ghosting or something would  
>> work.  If
>> all else fails, we can place the logo in a rounded rectangle of  
>> one of the
>> complimentary colours (uh, greys) inside the green header...
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>   _____
>>
>> From: viscom-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Arnulf Christl
>> Sent: Sat 2007-01-27 1:11 PM
>> To: viscom-dev at lists.osgeo.org; webcom at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: [Viscom-dev] Corporate Identity
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>> if this has been discussed and decided on at another place forget  
>> about
>> it.
>>
>> But the longer that I use http://www.osgeo.org the more I dislike  
>> the blue
>> in the head. Why is it not green as it should be?
>>
>> It is just very nice to be able to say if you see green its OSGeo  
>> (nature,
>> evolution, hope) and blue is OGC (etheral, encompassing) OSGeo  
>> theory,
>> OSGeo down to earth...
>>
>> Just thinking.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Arnulf Christl
>> http://www.wheregroup.com
>>
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