From kde-artists  Mon Aug 19 04:01:08 2002
From: antialias <vukman () mail ! dk>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 04:01:08 +0000
To: kde-artists
Subject: Re: K-ARTIST:design of KDE artist web site v2
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luciash d' being wrote:

> ante wrote:
>
>> On Friday 16 August 2002 07:16, antialias wrote:
>>
>>
>>> And another thing: why should we insist on orange-grey combination 
>>> while
>>> KDE predominant colors are blue.
>>
>
> Mac OSX Aqua is much more blue ;) Windows XP is blueish as default too :O 

Yes, and nothing wrong with 'blue' KDE. New KDE is (visually) a mix of 
WinXP & MacOSX (liquid and winxp icons, liquid & keramik win 
decorations, macosx-like wallpapers.

>
> for me it seems KDE as default is much more light-grey scheme + some 
> blue elements... 

Not anymore.

>
>> You certainly have a point here. Still, I guess the artists 
>> department can be a bit more colorfull than the rest. KDE has an 
>> industrial flavor (gear-wheel and all, I guess that's where the bolts 
>> came from), a meeting place for artists does not have to be that 
>> industrial. 
>
>
> yes, i totally agree with ante! 


Yes, but colorful doesn't need to mean everything colorful or too 
colorful. White background with three strokes of color (or a part of 
some existing art - here I mean KDE art) do a magic. You don't need to 
have a fixed logo for KDE artist site, as I said it can be a piece/part 
of artwork from kde-look.org which can be changed every few days.
Actually, you have only two choices for a good artist site: either you 
make it artistic-like (see tigert's web-site) or high-tech-like (see 
rasterman's web site). I prefer the first one (although some of the 
icons used on tigert's site are not very nice).

>
>
>> The more white you start with, the more colorfull color elements 
>> look. If you have a lot of white, even grey can be "colorfull", while 
>> if you start with orange, you can only back down. I would start with 
>> a lot of white, add a few color elements. (If you add a playfull 
>> gear-wheel or something like that, there is a playfull relationship 
>> with the industrial strength.)
>
>
> i will think about this much more now.
>
> it looks like nobody here likes orange or another "warm" colors. 

Yes, I like warm colors very much but if you paint the whole wall in red 
you'll get crazy unless you add the right proportion of contrast.

> do you think "cold" colors are better for KDE artist's site?

No. Warm colors as elements on the white background.

>
> must everything consist of blue? 


No.

>
> tell me (_you all_) which colour should be dominant for the default 
> KDE artist's site theme and i will try to make it finally (a different 
> one and not only shifting the hue;) )... 

White background, colorful spots.

>
>
> thanks for help and cooperation, luci 

You're welcome.

antialias



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