Improving our visual identity -- a meeting?

[Halla Rempt]

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On vrijdag 19 november 2021 16:45:57 CET Tyson Tan wrote:
> Thank you David, I'm glad you liked the design.
> 
> Although I don't count myself as a professional, I was industrial design 
> major, and VI design was part of the course. If Krita can use my help, I 
> will provide it for free. However since my day job gets quite busy 
> recently, I probably can't do much before the end of November.
> 
> I have never participated a Krita meeting though, can someone provide me 
> the info?
> 
> On 2021-11-19 02:49, Ramón Miranda wrote:
> > For me talking about this in the next meeting is a good idea, count
> > with me.
> > 
> > El jue, 18 nov 2021 a las 18:26, David Revoy
> > (<davidrevoy at protonmail.com>) escribió:
> > 
> >> +1 for making a "visual identity" as part of usual meeting.
> >> 
> >> But my take/advice on the visual identity would be to delegate or
> >> comission this art direction to Tyson Tan entirely (maybe to avoid
> >> the "too many cook" effect and keep a strong art direction, fresh
> >> 2021 and +).
> >> 
> >> Last ten years of Krita colors and fonts that inspired actual
> >> videos/website/KAforum/documentation/(logo!) finds all their origin
> >> (more or less) on Kiki's design (imo) and the impression left by
> >> documents like this 2014 tutorial
> >> 
> > https://tysontan.tumblr.com/post/91061435966/krita-free-painting-app-tutorial
> >> . It really was fresh in term of visual identity.
> >> 
> >> I would be curious to know if Tyson would build up on the legacy
> >> palette; or propose something new (eg. including recent green of 5.0
> >> splash screen).
> >> 
> >> ______________________________
> >> 
> >> Blogfolio:  www.davidrevoy.com [1]
> >> 
> >> Webcomic: www.peppercarrot.com [2]
> >> 
> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >> On Thursday, November 18th, 2021 at 4:53 PM, Iván Yossi
> >> <ghevan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hey all,
> >> 
> >> I think having and identity as a whole is important, im not sure if
> >> going as far as defining a music theme, but If we could define an
> >> identity manual: what fonts, what colors to use, recommended content
> >> for platform, etc. Perhaps define/update a graphic asset repository
> >> for this.
> >> 
> >> We could have a short session in AOB in the regular meeting to gauge
> >> the level of discussion, and if needed define another meeting to
> >> define a plan, maybe?
> >> 
> >> Iván Yossi
> >> <ghevan at gmail.com>
> >> IRC: ivanyossi
> >> 
> >> El 17 de nov de 2021 7:11 -0600, Halla Rempt <halla at valdyas.org>,
> >> escribió:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I was discussing with Ramon the need for three videos for the store
> >> pages, and he asked me to think about how we go about coordinating
> >> Krita's visual identity, not just for videos, but overall. In his
> >> words:
> >> 
> >> "It would be also interesting to look for music and define what
> >> typography and colors we are going to use. For videos about Krita 4,
> >> I was following the Web style more or less. But for Krita 5? We need
> >> to be coherent, in manual, web, videos, social media publishing. If
> >> we want funds, Krita must improve in that imo. But honestly talking
> >> about marketing would require more time. Maybe a video talk? what do
> >> you think? or a special meeting."
> >> 
> >> I don't think I should have this discussion between just me and
> >> Ramon, so we probably should talk about this in the meeting -- or
> >> have a separate meeting?
> >> 
> >> Halla
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Links:
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> > [1] http://www.davidrevoy.com
> > [2] http://www.peppercarrot.com
>