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I implemented your preferences/opinions in the following three diagrams. If
most of you agree on them, I'll update the remaining diagrams in the
installation guide and submit a patch. Hopefully this round will solidify
our diagram theme!

http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-hw.png
http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-networks.png
http://23.253.231.218/rpc-diagrams/os-examplearchneutron-services.png

Matt

On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 1:26:57 PM Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> 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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