[kdenlive] Kdenlive website and brand logo?
Jesse DuBord
jesse.dubord at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 18:53:04 UTC 2016
Hi Iwan,
Appreciate the feedback sir. Though, I'd have to respectfully disagree.
I agree wholly that much of the color in the program should be related
to purpose. However, there are plenty of little accent colors that exist
just for aesthetics, and they don't come off as ambiguous or do the
program any harm (e.g. the effects and transitions have a variety of
colors, though they don't have any pattern as far as function
categorically, or the trash icon in the Project Bin being a different
color than the rest of the icons, or the render icon having a red dot in
it).
I agree that the color might be a little faded; but maybe a more vibrant
orange - but still relatively close - would do better.
What I like about Farid's logo is that each component is - to me - a
symbol of the Kdenlive interface: the left bars I associate with the
timeline, the cursor is the timeline position cursor, and the "play"
icon represents the final product of Kdenlive (a final video file). Not
sure if that's what Farid was intending, but that's what I take from it.
I don't think an accent color for the timeline cursor would do the
timeline any harm at all. That said, it's a small suggestion for
consideration. It's not a hill to die on. :) Just thought it'd look
cool. Every program should have its own unique touches here and there,
you know?
On 03/31/2016 11:37 AM, Iwan Gabovitch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It its much less visible, the orange doesn't look good on top of the UI.
>
> Trying to match colors in icon, logo, software UI and website is a
> problematic idea. Each of these products has a function very different
> from each other and colors in these products should be used with
> purpose other than product identity.
>
> If it is wanted to promote product identity, I'd suggest placing the
> logo in the background (about half opacity) in the bottom right corner
> of the project bin area and make it possible to disable it in the
> settings (shown by default).
>
> Cheers,
> Iwan
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Jesse DuBord <jesse.dubord at gmail.com
> <mailto:jesse.dubord at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Great stuff, Farid and JB.
>
> A small thought about associating the new logo with the program:
> what about changing the color of the timeline position cursor in
> the program to the shade of orange in the new logo? It looks like
> it would compliment the program in both Breeze and Breeze Dark themes.
>
> Here are some mock-ups I made:
> Breeze Dark -
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0xu5zvf8kv8k2f/kdenlive%20new%20cursor%20color%20-%20breeze%20dark.jpg?dl=0
> Breeze Light -
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfqhqtof48rchos/kdenlive%20new%20cursor%20color%20-%20breeze%20light.jpg?dl=0
>
> What do you all think?
>
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> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:29:45 +0200
> From: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb at kdenlive.org
> <mailto:jb at kdenlive.org>>
> To: farid abdelnour <snd.noise at gmail.com
> <mailto:snd.noise at gmail.com>>
> Cc: kdenlive <kdenlive at kde.org <mailto:kdenlive at kde.org>>
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> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:18:53 PM CET, farid abdelnour wrote:
>
> hey guys
>
> here is our last proposal for the logo. thanks to all who
> helped out. we are finishing the website proposal.
>
> direct link:
> http://i.imgur.com/jgFjMkB.png
>
> forum post:
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=265&t=131250&p=353737#p353737
>
> cheers
>
> Hello Farid,
>
> Sorry it took so long to answer. We had an interesting
> exchange on the last
> Kdenlive café about your logo proposal and the website (1),
> and everyone
> agrees that the logo looks great.
>
> We decided to ask the KDE VDG (visual Design Group) what they
> think about
> the logo in KDE's forum (2), to have their feedback, and it
> looks like they
> love it too.
>
> My only concern was the scalability of the logo for an icon,
> but I saw on
> the forum that you are working on an icon version, so that's
> perfect.
>
>
> Thanks for your work!
>
> On the website topic, there were many comments / ideas, we
> will need to
> discuss it further, also find someone willing to implement the
> ideas and
> decide between keeping Drupal or switching to a static site
> generator..
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
>
> (1) https://notes.kde.org/public/kdenlive-cafe04
> (2) https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=131757
>
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