[ux] I'm looking forward to our meeting in ~2 hours

Ame Elliott ame at simplysecure.org
Wed Jul 27 16:54:56 UTC 2016


Great summary - thank you Elio. See you online in ~5 minutes.

~Ame

> On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Elio Qoshi <ping at elioqoshi.me> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reminder Ame!
> 
> I was last week on vacations and just got back yesterday, sorry for the
> delay. I however had enough time to mull about what Philip suggested and
> go on with some improvements I think you will like.
> 
> I am keeping this email short and concise, as I'd probably repeat myself
> covering some things Philip already mentioned (we share the same view on
> many elements).
> You can find a new updated style guide proposal here: (sorry for Dropbox
> link, my ownCloud seems to strike)
> 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62482708/Tor%20Styleguide%20Draft%20v3.pdf
> 
> Changes I undertook:
> 
> - I changed the purple color to a darker one, very similar to the one
> Philip suggested. This seems to be a good compromise contrast wise, yet
> still look as purple when put as headers.
> 
> - I changed the green color to a darker one, as I believe the lighter
> one lacks greatly contrast. This is one of the points I disagree with
> Philip, but I'd be happy to bounce off ideas on this.
> 
> - I agree that the white on dark monochrome logo wasn't ideal, so I
> removed it for now until we find a compromise for it which we can add
> later on.
> 
> - I changed the font used from Lato to Source Sans Pro. It's an open
> font as well, licensed under the SIL Open Font license. It works well on
> all sizes. I prefer not to use Fira Sans, as that's been commissioned
> especially for Mozilla, and I think we need to differentiate a bit more
> ourselves, rather than using the same typeface Mozilla uses. Fira Sans
> also screams Mozilla like Roboto screams Google so that needs to be kept
> in mind as well.
> 
> - I don't think the yellow color of the onion should be that saturated
> as Philip suggested. It looks too colorful on the logo in my opinion. A
> very light yellow can prevent that.
> 
> - I added the monochrome purple logo version as an allowed use, due to
> needing a monochrome logo sometimes, when the full color logo doesn't
> cut it.
> 
> - For headers, white on purple boxed background might be interesting.
> Happy to discuss this.
> 
> - I changed the Material design icon background to light gray, as Philip
> suggested (just to distinguish it from white).
> 
> That's it in a nutshell. Feel free to mull over this until the meeting
> and we can discuss then there :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Elio
> 
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