LO v4.0 draft cover and internal design

I'm looking at the draft cover and internal designs proposed by Klaus-Jürgen,
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:K-j/Drafts/Concept-GIn#Documentation

I made some comments about the draft front covers on this list last month:
The large empty area in the top half of the cover looks strange to me,
and the small LibreOffice logo in the top left gets a bit lost, I
think. I prefer to have a larger LibreOffice logo in this blank area.

If you're interested, please look at the page of designs and make any
comments of your own.

I will say something about the other designs soon. Also, I intend to
produce my own variation on the front cover design very soon, for your
consideration.

--Jean

Hello,

I added my comments at the comment page of the wiki page.

Best regards

Leo

Op 02-01-13 08:31, Jean Weber schreef:

My full comments, which are also now on the wiki comments page:

Front covers for user guides: I like that you're using several bits
from the v3.x design (different colours and graphics, especially), but
the large empty area in the top half of the draft v4.0 cover looks
strange to me, and the small LibreOffice logo in the top left gets a
bit lost, I think. I prefer to have a larger LibreOffice logo in this
blank area. Also, I'm dubious about the "Get involved" in the upper
right, though not completely opposed to it.

Chapters: I assume these are intended for the cover pages of the
stand-alone chapter files. I think they may be a bit too much when the
chapters are compiled into a book, however.

Pages: I find the dark colours in the headers and footers are too
distracting. And anyone printing these out on a personal printer is
likely to be annoyed by the excess use of ink or toner.

Back covers: I like the concept, although for the print version (which
is 6x9 inches, not A4) I would amend the text a bit. Also, the footer
won't work on the print version because of the automatic placement of
the barcode by the Lulu publishing service.

I expect to have some amended versions of these ready to show people soon.

-- Jean