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On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 11:59:53 AM Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Wanted to pass along the font info from the new design to the list so we
> all know what fonts are in use. This is from Wes, the designer:
>
> Open Sans is the primary font used and is open source. That’s the one
> you’ll want to use on your images. You can see more details about it at
> http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans. You can download the font
> at http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans.
>
>
>>
>> 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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