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Matt, I think those look fantastic!


Regards,
Robb


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From: Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com<mailto:mkassawara at gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM
To: Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org<mailto:anne at openstack.org>>
Cc: "openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [OpenStack-docs] Diagram color scheme

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<mailto:mkassawara at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks!

On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 11:59:53 AM Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org<mailto:anne at openstack.org>> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com<mailto: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 athttp://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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