Graphical Debian Installer

D-I banners:

These images are licensed under the same terms as the Debian Open use logo.

When changing the text in the red bar, remember to change the corresponding "shadow" text as well.
The text "bounding" box is distanced 8 pixels to the right edge of the image, and 3 pixels to the bottom edge of the image.

D-I icons:

These icons are color corrected. Red is from Debian "swirl", blue has the same luminocity.

Note, Warning

Sources

Starting Inkscape SVG file
Final Gimp XCF file
I first start with inskcape for making the icons, then crop to their correct size, and add the shadow on Gimp.

Trying out stuff

I'm trying to create a different look for these icons. These are the "prototypes", as the warning icon's shape is not perfect:

Note, Warning

D-I Design ideas:

Current:

Changes in text:

Changes in text and color:

Changes

Fonts

Currently all the text is sized 12 px, and the diference between the title text, the description text and the question text is made by bolding the first and italizing the last. I propose that they are diferentiated by size instead. (The specific sizes I chose here are only possible ones. Perhaps they're all too big, and should be shrinked a bit)

So, the title font size is 27 px,the description is 18 px, and the question 20 px. The order of sizes I chose are for what I considered that an installing user should be noticing first.

The title should obviously be first, at 27 px or so, as it explains to the user the step during installation he is currently on. Some steps have more than one screen, and the user will allways knows he's still in the same step, or if he has passed to the next one.

The next size is the question, at 20 px, is what the debian installer is currently requesting or informing the user about, with a straight to the point phrase.

Lastly, at 18 px, is the description. This description should be visually optional to the user, meaning, he should be able to understand what he is being asked for or informed about from the main question/information bellow the screen. If he needs or wants more explanation, then he turns to this information.

Colors

This is still uncertain to me, and so it could work perfectly with no change of color, except the background color.

I think that a red and whitish color scheme (not complete white, mind you, but near), works better and better follows debian's logo colors and imagery, than red and grey. This is discussable, if d-i should allways follow the logo's colors so strictly, but at least it could be tried first.

As far as the screen title being white in a red background, this was my original idea before having a red debian banner. As such, the two don't combine so well. I still think that having such a big empty red space on the banner is wastefull, even though I had that idea!

As far as the blue background for the description, it's to more clearly diferentiate between it and the question, and give its description/help caracteristic more emphasis.

What I hope to experiment with in the future:

Already found out the font used for the word "debian" in the logo. It's commercial, and a bit costly :/
Manage to insert the "Universal Operating System" idea in the banner.
Add information to the banner that this is an installation. For example, the banner could be composing itself in the end...
Utopia: Make the banner and the graphical d-i interface be one.

Contact

Feel free to contact me: hoboprimate at gmail dot com.

All of the icons on these page, and any future work I do for the graphical Debian Installer, are licensed in the GPL.