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Thanks for all the comments. I think we mostly narrowed down the color
scheme variations, but the font and line thicknesses need more discussion.
So, I eliminated the dark-on-dark variation from the "simple" diagram [1]
and went crazy on font and line thicknesses with the remaining options. I
know some of you liked the object storage nodes, but a few of the colors
fell outside of the theme and I'm trying to make this work within it to
ease future documentation and templates. I also included numbers on each
object for easier reference. So... pick a number and add if/where/when you
prefer thicker fonts and/or lines.

[1] http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-hw.png

Matt

On Fri Nov 14 2014 at 1:16:25 PM Robb Romans <robb.romans at rackspace.com>
wrote:

>  Matt,
>
>  Really great work putting this together and moving things toward
> consistency. These diagrams look awesome. For the first set, I like Network
> node best (and I also like the Object Storage node that I was supposed to
> ignore :). For the second set, I prefer the Compute node (Network node
> 2nd). Cheers.
>
>
>  *Robb Romans*
>
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>
>   From: Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 7:28 PM
>
> To: "openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org" <
> openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: [OpenStack-docs] Diagram color scheme
>
>  Needless to say, our existing diagram color schemes vary by document and
> sometimes look rather hideous. For example, I used the red-green-blue theme
> in the installation guide to improve contrast among the networks, but it
> lacks the civility you would find in other professional documentation.
> Similar to networking, colors are hard. For example, themes that implement
> many shades of one or two colors look professional but limit the ability to
> contrast important items. On the other hand, themes that implement many
> diverse colors offer many ways to contrast important items, but look harsh.
> I haven't found a theme that provides a decent balance until Robb Romans (a
> coworker at Rackspace) pointed out the Solarized theme [1] today. Although
> somewhat optimized for text, this theme provides several decent dark/light
> combinations for diagrams requiring less contrast and a series of diverse
> yet soft colors for diagrams requiring more contrast. After messing around
> a bit, I came up with a few potential color variants using this theme.
> Please review the dark/light example for simple diagrams [2] and the
> diverse color example for complex/contrasty diagrams [3] and provide
> comments. For the first diagram, indicate which of the controller node,
> network node, compute node, and block storage node objects look the best
> (ignore the object storage nodes). For the second diagram, indicate which
> of the nodes (dark/light) and network colors look best. You can also reject
> this theme completely. However, if you do, please provide one or more
> suitable alternatives. I would like to upload a series of revitalized
> diagrams to the installation guide as soon as possible.
>
>  Matt
>
>  [1] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
> [2] http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-hw.png
> [3] http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-networks.png
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