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Eirik Bakke edited comment on NETBEANS-2455 at 5/10/19 8:42 AM:
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OK, so if I understand right, the font upload is for the build system only, not
for the IDE to load at runtime.
Still, the font is not needed, because once the outlined logo lockup SVG is
generated, there should never be a need to change the appearance text in the
logo; it always says "Apache NetBeans", in whatever way we decide on here.
(Unless people really want the major version number to be part of the logo,
e.g. "Apache NetBeans 11".) Consider for example
[Microsoft's|https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/microsoft-logo.jpg?w=930&strip=all]
logo lockup: while it's _based_ on the font Segoe, there are additional tweaks
made to it, like adjusting the tracking, and joining the "f" and the "t" at the
end. This is something a designer does once--subsequently the text "Microsoft"
is treated as constant vector graphics rather than a string of text that is
generated from the original font.
Another common design principle is to avoid using the logo font anywhere else
than in the logo. So if the font in the logo lockup is Montserrat, the font
elsewhere in the splash screen should be something else. Here I'd suggest being
consistent with the font used by other status messages in the splash screen
instead. And that piece of text does not need to be generated at build time--it
can be imprinted at runtime, just like the progress bar text ("Loading
modules..." etc.).
was (Author: ebakke):
OK, so if I understand right, the font upload is for the build system only, not
for the IDE to load at runtime.
Still, the font is not needed, because once the outlined logo lockup SVG is
generated, there should never be a need to change the appearance text in the
logo--it always says "Apache NetBeans", in whatever way we decide on here.
(Unless people really want the major version number to be part of the logo,
e.g. "Apache NetBeans 11".) Consider for example
[Microsoft's|https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/microsoft-logo.jpg?w=930&strip=all]
logo lockup: while it's _based_ on the font Segoe, there are additional tweaks
made to it, like adjusting the tracking, and joining the "f" and the "t" at the
end. This is something a designer does once--subsequently the text "Microsoft"
is treated as constant vector graphics rather than a string of text that is
generated from the original font.
Another common design principle is to avoid using the logo font anywhere else
than in the logo. So if the font in the logo lockup is Montserrat, the font
elsewhere in the splash screen should be something else. Here I'd suggest being
consistent with the font used by other status messages in the splash screen
instead. And that piece of text does not need to be generated at build time--it
can be imprinted at runtime, just like the progress bar text ("Loading
modules..." etc.).
> Splash screens for development version
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: NETBEANS-2455
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2455
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ide - UI
> Reporter: Junichi Yamamoto
> Assignee: Antonio Vieiro
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Attachments: Simplified Splash Screen with example version text.svg,
> Simplified Splash Screen without version text.svg, Simplified Splash
> Screen.ai, apache-netbeans-splash.png, apache-netbeans-splash.svg,
> image-2019-05-10-05-51-46-560.png, netbeans-logo-notext.svg,
> netbeans-logo-text.svg, splash.png
>
> Time Spent: 1h 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Currently, the version of the splash screen is 10 in the master branch. So we
> should fix it (e.g. Dev., Development Version, ...).
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