Care to share that tikz code?
I’d also suggest you change your serif to a sans serif font.
Care to share that tikz code?
I’d also suggest you change your serif to a sans serif font.
It is not necessarily about serif v sans serif but whether or not the type fits the project. (There are other styles as well.)
As for the time symbols, I would differentiate the pair a bit more. Right now, they look almost the same given their size. I suggest that you use existing day planners, carbon or digital, for inspiration. Many of them are done well. Edit: Sorry to mislead you . That I have seen good examples does not mean they are easy to find .
Unfortunately I’ve never seen a time shift symbol in a day planner. Googling for “time shift symbol” brings some inspiration, but none of these seems to suit “works in small sizes” and “fits a serif font” .
Have to check some old printed planners tomorrow …
Thanks for the hints .
Edit: Hm, if people would understand “Δt”?
Does “time shift symbol” mean “daylight savings time”?
Yes.
Thanks for the hint. They look really good, but the time shift symbols are probably a bit too complicated to work in the small font size. However, probably I’ll adopt the seasons symbols for my calendar .
I agree that the time shift symbols have too much going on. The seasonal ones remind me of
I tried to improve the time shift symbol design to much better match the character of the Palatino font and to better work in smaller sizes. And I raised the moon symbols a bit. What do you think? Should I keep the dpts at 3-6-9-12?
@chris @paperdigits I would be happy to provide more feedback but this thread has become a discussion about symbol design. Should we split it?
Yes I will do that shortly.
I agree, please go ahead.
By “shortly” I meant “a week later”
That’s OK, I am working on a full calendar tutorial for almost a week now and am still far from finishing it. So much to do and so little time …
If the calendar is for the new year, you still have plenty of time to finish . As for the daylight savings icon, I don’t think the new one matches the character of Palatino or the moon symbols. The most apparent difference is the stress (see: Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia). Also, the arrowhead is way too imposing:
Just my thoughts. I am not a designer or anything .
Hm, the arrow is taken from the original font, but I had to shrink the head a bit to have room for the hands. I think it is much better without the scale points. I already prepared something but need time to finish it to show it here.
And there is not much time left if I want to have ~10 different calendars produced as christmas gifts. Photo selection is the most difficult part.
I assumed that you had completed that part . If someone gave me a unique photo calendar for Christmas, I would be ecstatic!
@chris I was bored the other day and drew a couple of daylight saving and moon icons. Haven’t adapted them to match small font sizes or your typeface choices.
Both licensed under by @afre
@afre Sorry, but I ordered the Calendars on Tuesday, so your work may be included next year at the earlyest . It was just in time for the yearly discount of my supplier. I thought. Just to realise on Wednesday morning that they extended a second time. The extra week could have improved the Calendars even more …
Now I probably have some time to finish my calendar making tutorial for pixls.us. 50 % done already. @patdavid, do we have the possibility to host some video here to embed into a post? I did not require a youtube account so far and hope that it can stay like that.