Alternative Colourful Dolby Vision Badge

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Monitors Media Folders and Adds Images with Ratings (poster.jpg / background.jpg) from the RPDB API

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Alternative Colourful Dolby Vision Badge #26

Closed darthShadow closed 3 years ago

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

An alternative more colourful badge for Dolby Vision.

ghost commented 3 years ago

Might be slightly irrelevant, but! I think the current icon is based on the colors of the logo

Previously discussed here: https://github.com/RatingPosterDB/rpdb-folders/issues/12#issuecomment-849029338

jaruba commented 3 years ago

I don't mind making another more colorful alternative for the DoVi badge.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow thoughts?

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darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Perhaps a lighter shade of the colours in the centre so that the text is slightly more visible? The HDRColor badge is spot-on in terms of the contrast between text and the colours so I was looking for something similar. That said, I am not a designer at all so I may be off here :sweat_smile:

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow I don't particularly like the result either, but the more colors we add, the harder it is to maintain text visibility. I'll think about it more.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow how about this?

new-badge-test14

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Looks much better.

2 suggestions, if you don't mind:

How about making the dolby vision logo box fully black the hemispheres as empty rather than the current, where the hemispheres are black but the surroundings are empty. Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Vision#/media/File:Dolby.Vision.Logo.png
Perhaps also increase the font-weight (or bold) of one of either "Dolby" or "Vision" in the "Dolby Vision" text at the bottom.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow

not sure if I understand the first suggestion, if the logo would be black (and the center colored), it would not be visible within the dark background of the badge, and the dark background needs to be there so all the badges can follow the same pattern
if u look closely you'll realise that the "vision" word is already bold, while "dolby" is not, I can't make it bolder than that as otherwise it will also break the pattern of the badges.. but again, the more colors we add, the harder it is to notice such details as the gradient / contrast take more of the viewer's attention

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

I am probably not explaining it properly which is why the linked image shows it better. I basically want it to match the other badges like 4k where the letters "4" & "k" are holes in a black box. I want the oval halves to be the holes here. Currently, it's the inverse with the oval halves being black.
Yeah, it's not really discernible, even after you have pointed it out. I was imagining something like the "Ultra HD" text where "HD" is quite clearly bold. But no matter if it breaks uniformity.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow you mean like that? I made "dolby" bold and set "vision" to regular, I also cut out the center of the logo.. but I have to say, that's not the actual logo of DoVi anymore, and it's strange to use bold on the "dolby" word as that's not the actual feature name, it's a company name..

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darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Yep, this is what I meant.

Could the ovals be made relatively larger in percentage to the box they are present in? The earlier linked Wikipedia logo has a good ratio of the oval to the containing box.
Yeah, Dolby being bold doesn't make sense here. Plus we also have Dolby Atmos. So you can probably revert it back to "Vision" being bold then.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow

new-badge-test17

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Perfect. Thanks a lot.

Will this be available soon via the API too or only next month?

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow

I added them to the API: dolbyvisioncolor and dolbyvisioncoloralt (the one with "alt" at the end is the one you like more)

It will take more time to add them to the app too.

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Great, thanks. I use the API directly in my scripts anyway so this works out perfectly for me.

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Feel free to re-open the issue if you want to keep it till it's added to the app. I closed it because my requirement has been satisfied.

jaruba commented 3 years ago

@darthShadow The v0.1.8 version was just released that includes menus in the app's UI to choose these new badges.

darthShadow commented 3 years ago

Thanks.