[TYPO3-english] Rebranding: Get the green back

Andi cocopapa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 20:05:39 CEST 2012


File a bug report. There is a green color missing as this was always the hope to get things running while the orange part had more an alarming - here I come - Character. We actually need the green as the green. The monochrome only orange stuff looks awful and looks like nikelodeon to be honest.



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On Oct 10, 2012, at 0:47, Jigal van Hemert <jigal.van.hemert at typo3.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 9-10-2012 16:53, Martin Bless wrote:
>> http://www.clearlabelling.com/traffic_lights.htm
> 
> The traffic light is about the worst example of usage and meaning of shape and colour. Different countries use different light configurations. Some are vertical, some horizontal, most use three colours and the colours are not always in the same order.
> 
> For colour blind people (about 5% of the male population plus some females) only the order of the lights is available. If they drive in other countries they first have to look up the order of lights in that country.
> 
> Meaning should never, ever be communicated by colour only.
> 
> The pedestrian traffic lights in the Netherlands are way better. On top a red light with a standing figure and below a green light with a walking figure. Even without the colour the message is clear.
> 
> But this is not on the subject of the green in the logo. Despite the orange colour the monochromatic orange version still looks very clean to me.
> 
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> Jigal van Hemert
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> 
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