On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:31:34AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:44:36AM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > > Hi folks, > > those who attended at least one conference for the past year have probably > > noticed the rising trend (more like "sticker hype") of FOSS projects giving away > > these hexagon stickers, it's very inexpensive way of making some promo for > > their project and since we don't do many promos (AFAIK none to be precise) I > > guess as a project that's been going strong for 12 years already we should > > probably start somewhere, even baby steps count (as it turns out in this case - > > I've got a pile of a 100+ stickers for libvirt still that I've given away > at many confs :-) > > > - literally...). So, I've taken our libvirt-publican repo and came up with a > > few various color combinations for libvirt hexagon sticker design. Below you > > can find links to my personal google drive (these are hexagon meshes, I can, > > or anyone can for that matter, isolate individual designs and send them as > > separate patches on demand), since each of the SVGs is over 1.5MB and I'd easily > > run into message size limits for the mailing list, had I gone with sending these > > as patches against libvirt-publican. > > BTW I think the graphics in the libvirt-publican repo are the original > logo image. I created brand new SVG based art when i redid the website > last time. Aside from creating SVG format images, I fixed the totally > messed up depth perspective that the original had in the inner penguins. > The master files are all in docs/logos/ in the main GIT repo. > > > > [1] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xhn0GLvCKMcEOUnqn6boghaUOgjA8sOG > > [2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b2MUyv0eo723F2rorWnmv1sTeCycUCN4 > > I think the second style works better, as having the 'VIRTUALIZATION API' > line there pushes the main logo off to the left hand side, making the > image unbalanced. > > In the original stickers we had, which were round, we have the website > URL and "VIRTUALIZATION API" done above & below the image > > https://www.berrange.com/~dan/libvirt-sticker.jpg > > Perhaps we could try and do the same layout but with the hexagon, as > that would get rid of the big white space above & below the main > graphic. > > In terms of background & border, IMHO, it really should be the white > background - the logo doesn't stand out well when you have it on the > green background. Green background is ok for the wbsite banner as we > don't want the logo to be too distrating, but for a promotional sticker > having a prominent bold style is desirable. > > I'm undecided whether having a green border or not is neccessary. If > we have the border, the logo has to be slightly smaller, to allow > it space it breathe within the border. Do you have any reference of > what other proojects have done wrt borders ? To answer my own question: http://hexb.in/ There's no real majority either with or without borders. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
