[Design][Proposal] Lozenge shape

[Mimi Yin]

Here are 4 possibilities for Tentative (in clock-wise order, starting  
with the Wed, 3:30PM event)

1. Use the old FYI: white strip, less rhythmic repetition than the  
stripes.

2. Use a subtler version of the dots. More integrated into the  
lozenge, but less like teeth.

3. Lighten the lozenge itself. (This is problematic because Tentative  
lozenges start to look like the lozenges of activated, but not  
selected calendars.

4. Lighten the text and white strip. (But I wonder if this makes for  
too many variables.)
+ FONT COLOR variables: White versus De-Saturated Lozenge Color  
versus Saturated Lozenge Color
+ Gradient versus No Gradient
+ Solid with White outline versus Hollow with Colored outline
This solution may take us over the tipping point into the realm of a  
visual syntax that is too complicated to decipher.



One more thing to take into consideration:
Whatever visual syntax we use in the event lozenges need to translate  
well into a customized free-busy view in the future. (See old mock-up  
below).

+ Solid versus Stripe; OR
+ Solid versus Outline would be easy to translate.

It will be harder to translate things like:
+ Saturation of Lozenge Color; OR
+ Saturation of Text (especially if we don't have the ability to have  
transparent lozenges.)


On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:

> I think the proposal has come a really long way and is looking very  
> good.  My only remaining nit is the display of pending status.   
> Events with pending status have to my eye too much prominence  
> relative to committed events.  I think the visual should somehow be  
> a little more subtle and not stand out so much.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> <dotseven_lozenges_5.png>
>

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