User:Cactus/Sandbox/Badges
Design Challenge:Contribs.org forum badges
You might have noticed that a lot of users in the forums have a badge underneath their user name ranging from tasks they have in the contribs.org community to their donation status. During the years there have been a few flavors made by enthusiast members of the community.
The current ones look like this to give you a idea on what we are looking for. File:Forumbadges. As you can see they could at least use some TLC by someone with a little more graphic skills to improve the quality, therefore we suggest a design challenge to see if we have community members with graphic skills who can do better and come up with a set of nice badges we can use in the forums.
Regulations
Since no challenge can be without rules we decided on a small set to not limit creativity to much.
Ownership
All artwork will be submitted, including templates and other used items like fonts will be submitted to contribs.org community in order to ensure we can (re)create, enhance and modify badges in the future.
Decision
The decision on the eventual winner will be made by a limited group of people which will be fixed and not open for discussion. The following people will decide on the winner of the challenge:
Price
Since we are a community that does things for free you will not benefit material or financial when winning the contest. You will however get honor as well as your badges being used on the forums in the contribs.org community.
Deadline
Requirements
Dimensions
Resolution of the badges should be 72 dpi (dots per inch) and have maximum dimensions of 140 (width) by 80 (height) pixels.
What badges?
We would like badges for the following categories:
- Site Administrator
- Global Moderator
- Forum Moderator
- Bronze Supporter
- Silver Supporter
- Gold Supporter
- Platinum Supporter
- Site Supporter
- QA & Testing Team
- Wiki & Docs Team
- Development Team
Logo
The whole Contribs.org logo should be present in the badges as well as the text "SME Server" and the category listed in the paragraph above.
Colors
The colors used for the logo should be the following:
| color | R | G | B | sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| blue | 4 | 128 | 182 | |
| green | 179 | 220 | 16 | |
| orange | 255 | 102 | 0 | |
| yellow | 255 | 204 | 0 |
You are free to choose any of the other colors used in the badges, provided that there is a general style.
Existing artwork
The following existing artwork is available that can be used as a base for your badges:
