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#615 Fedora Appreciation Week - Request for designs
Closed: Fixed Opened by dhanesh95.

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** Deadline **

November 01st, 2018

** Size requirements in pixels if applicable **

Variable sizes according to:

  • Logo (specs below)
  • Community Blog feature image (specs below)
  • Twitter header (specs below)
  • Facebook cover (below)

Logo specs

  • The Happiness Packets logo is a cupcake, which symbolizes a small gift / token / celebration of someone's work in Fedora. For Appreciation week, it would be neat to extend that metaphor, since it's an event of sorts, into a full size (maybe multi tiered) cake.
  • Here is the Happiness packets logo work: https://pagure.io/design/issue/606
  • I would advise sticking to the standard fedora colors (white, fedora blue, fedora dark blue, fedora secondary colors documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines)
  • The text beyond the Fedora logotype itself should be in the Montserrat font
  • I would recommend creating vertical and horizontal versions of the logo (logomark + logotype), as well as a logomark only version (which will probably be just the cake artwork.)

Community Blog Specs

  • a size of 1890x800 pixels
  • a 100px bleed area at the top and bottom of the 800px height. The background should extend into the bleed area, but the main focus and content of your image should not. This is because the images are trimmed at the top and bottom for the Recent Posts sidebars on posts.
  • a 192px bleed area at the left and right of the 1890px width, some social sites automatically crop wider images, and keeping content in these bleeds makes sure your lettering and icons are not truncated by these sites. The template.svg has guides to show both vertical and horizontal bleed markers.
  • exported images that are uploaded to WordPress can either be PNGs or JPGs. If you have an image that uses a photo, please convert it to a JPG to reduce the filesize.

Twitter Header image specs

  • (from https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-customize-your-profile)
  • a size of 1500x500
  • bc of Twitter's responsive design, top and bottom sections get cropped often. Any logo or slogans or info should be as close to the middle as possible horizontally and not at the edges. It might be smart to have it in the top center, because on mobile the profile photo might get put in the center bottom of the header.
  • Twitter applies heavy jpg compression, so less colors / less gradients can result in a nicer-looking image. Upload the highest quality to a test twitter account and test out how it comes out.

** Facebook cover specs **

  • Because of similarity in specs, this can likely be a clever cropping of the Twitter header design.
  • Logo should be in the center; Facebook circular crops the cover to make the group circular avatar.
  • Keep center of design interest towards the center horizontally and vertically so it works well on both mobile and desktop
  • Secondary text / messaging is best right-aligned
  • Final image should be 851 x 360px. This is to cover both the desktop sizing (851x315px) and the mobile sizing (640x360px).
  • Provide as a PNG image (helps with FB's aggressive compression)
  • More good advice / tips here: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/facebook-cover-photo-size-best-practices

** If this is a logo or icon for an application**
Logo + other designs

** Purpose**
The goal of Fedora Appreciation Week is to celebrate a week of appreciation for the contributors who help make Fedora what it is. We would like to have designs for running this activity.

Concept proposal:

Since this event is similar in spirit to the Fedora Happiness Packets app, I propose creating a logo / design / theme for Appreciation week that relates to the Happiness packets logo.

The Happiness Packets logo is a cupcake, which symbolizes a small gift / token / celebration of someone's work in Fedora.

For Appreciation week, it would be neat to extend that metaphor, since it's an event of sorts, into a full size (maybe multi tiered) cake.

@dhanesh95 I have a few questions for you on what you're looking for:

  • for the facebook banner, do you mean a group cover or a message banner, or what? We need specifications, because it's not clear.
  • same for twitter, are you looking for a cover for a profile, or are you looking for a banner to be messaged out in a tweet?

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For Appreciation week, it would be neat to extend that metaphor, since it's an event of sorts, into a full size (maybe multi tiered) cake.

It would be cool to extend the metaphor!

for the facebook banner, do you mean a group cover or a message banner, or what? We need specifications, because it's not clear.

I think our preferred use will be a Facebook page cover banner. From what I could find online, this is 851 x 315 pixels.

same for twitter, are you looking for a cover for a profile, or are you looking for a banner to be messaged out in a tweet?

For Twitter, both would be cool to have. For the profile cover, we could use it on the @fedora account and share it with anyone who wants to change their profile banner. For tweets, it would be good to tweet out timely reminders as Appreciation Week comes closer, so an image to share in a tweet is helpful.

@jflory7 @dhanesh95 is there going to be a new fb group for this or an existing fedora group? (if so which one?)

@jflory7 @dhanesh95 is there going to be a new fb group for this or an existing fedora group? (if so which one?)

@duffy The intent is to work on the Fedora Marketing team to update the official Facebook page cover image. Thinking about it, a Facebook page cover image is a lower priority and is not required. I'm unsure if people will change personal profile cover photos for things like this, like people often do for events on Twitter.

Just updated all the specs.

Hi team.
Will be a brainstorming meeting to set all of the details?
How many people will be involved?
My idea: terra with all continents and a sound output from the words: " Fedora Appreciation Week"
What do you think about this?
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@mythcat I think commops has meetings about the event broadly, but we arent planning to have a big mtg about this in design. I did aasign @terezahl to look at this a few days ago and forgot to assogn kt to her here. I would wait to make sure there's no duplication of efforts,a

Hi @mythcat @duffy is it okay if I start working on the design?

Just updated all the specs.

Thanks for expanding these, @duffy! Let us know if we can do anything else to help.

Just updated all the specs.

Thanks for expanding these, @duffy! Let us know if we can do anything else to help.

@terezahl go ahead!

@duffy here's a design for the logo. I went for the cake idea. What do you think?

logo.svg
logo.png
logomark.png

@terezahl I think the mark you've designed is fabulous, colors are perfect, style is very Fedora.

I think the type we can push a bit! "Appreciation Week" is so long and it's tkny compared to the Fedora logo as a result. What if you break "Appreciation Week" inti 2 lines (each aligned to 1 cake tier) and align a smallee Fedora logo to the candle vertically?

Something to consider too - since this is a Fedora contributor focused event - you could drop the "fedora" type and just use the symbol. maybe as a decoration on top instead of the candle?

In summary - illustration is great, let's push the text!

@duffy here are some other designs I came up with.

01.png01.svg02.png02.svg03.png03.svg

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I love the 2nd one @terezahl - if this event ends up happening again next year I would definitely recommen dusing that one.

Is the artwork finalized? I was unclear to me if there was an approved design. We still have a need for the logo. If they are final, I would like to add them to the CommOps Pagure so we have them on-hand when we start planning for 2019.

Is there any pending feedback or should I take the second one as final?
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