Re: [Social-mediagoblin] GNU MediaGoblin logo designs and color choices

[Jef van Schendel]

2011/5/26 Deborah Nicholson <address@hidden>:
> I like the simplicity so far, but I don't think it has quite enough
> personality yet. I wonder of the circle inside the little box could be
> tweaked so it looks like either a person or a stylized letter G or
> maybe both?

That sounds awesome, I also like the hand/sharing idea. I'll see if I
can make something work! (If you already have something specific in
mind, feel free to grab the .svg and go to town!)

> I love the colors! The light blue-green on the charcoal is a nice
> contrast and will look great on shirts. I think we should try and
> choose a third color that we use very sparingly but consistently for
> titles that need to really stand out or that we can use in
> presentations or other graphically dense situations. Perhaps a
> slightly muted orange?

Good point. I was still looking for a kind of "warning" color.
Something to offset the blue is needed, because, well, otherwise it'll
turn into a TRON poster, as you can see here [1].

Now if you look for the complement of our blue-green buddy here,
you'll get purple. However, if you use the RYB color wheel instead of
RGB, you'll get something like this [2]. I realize "don't like the
resulting colors? change color wheel!" isn't exactly a scientific
process, but hey, if it works!

I tried those two out and I think they'd work well with error messages
and other urgent things. They're still muted enough to be used near
images, but can also grab attention when used in the right places. [3]
[4] [5]

Jef

[1] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/formsColor1.png
[2] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/colors.png
[3] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/formsColor2.png
[4] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/formsColor3.png
[5] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/goblin/formsColor4.png