---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: andi robert <anditosan1000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release To: Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:

On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 12:01:58 Javier Llorente wrote:

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El Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2011 08:43:47 Atri Bhattacharya escribió:

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Hi! I don't know if this has already been discussed and therefore is redundant, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, but I wanted to suggest that we base the artwork (esp., the wallpaper) of the release on the colour referred to by the release code-name. For 12.1 the code-name is "Asparagus" referring to the colour #87A96B [1].

Bye

That was already done with 11.4 (Celadon) :-P

And that was just my random suggestion because I liked the celadon shade better than the bluish green that gnokii had started with - it's not a rule, and neither does Coolo choose the code names systematically - it just happened that it was the start of asparagus season here in Nuremberg when the 12.1 cycle started.

I discussed green as colour with Nuno Pinheiro, one of the KDE/Oxygen designers, and he pointed out that green is a problematic colour for screen branding because out of RGB, green has the narrowest colour gamut and worst fidelity on most hardware.  That means that any new green shade we choose will probably get shifted to something else on users' monitors (unless they have the same designer-quality IPS screen as the person who chose it), probably duller than the intended shade, and accounts for the complaints of 'swamp water' that we got with the 11.2 KDE background: http://www.heise.de/imgs/18/4/2/3/7/4/6/opensuse.png-e9e30e93dbaaf58d.jpg

Anyone else want to be brave and do something different this time round?  12 is a new major number for us.

Will

My earlier suggestion was to have a mix of a vibrant green as well as mixes of grays and probably browns. I think that they can match pretty well. If not, we could find some good palettes to work with from kuler.adobe.com for example. They have a very big collection of palettes that can even be extracted from pictures and tweaked until one finds a good combination. I actually found a very cool one in Kuler called "Xplana Bright." It has very warm and nice colors. As far as what Nuno says about greens, I agree but not completely. The same visual problems happen to all the colors that you want to work with across different screens. It all depends on what kind of settings are placed on each device. Greens have, however, a chromatic signature that makes them somewhat weak, yet they can be worked out for better contrast. This is especially true once you find good colors to combine it with.

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