Styles are the essence of a text processor. And while experts love to unleash the power of LibreOffice Writer, it’s at the same time a major source of nuisance. In particular when you receive documents from other people, it can be quite difficult to understand the applied formatting and to fix issues around.…
Category: Visual Design
Formatted dummy text
The work around user experience often requires to create a minimal working example. Either users report an issue or request enhancements, the comparison with the current situation is necessary. LibreOffice has a built-in feature to create dummy text (type dt and press F3) but this function inserts only unformatted text.…
What’s new in LibreOffice 6.1 regarding user experience
The LibreOffice community regularly publishes new releases, and the latest version, 6.1, is released in August 2018. The design team worked hard to make this release as shiny as it deserves; here’s what we did.
Background images
LibreOffice ships some images by default to fill the background of shapes.…
LibreOffice mascot survey: The progress so far
As you’ve no doubt seen, over the last few months we’ve been looking for a LibreOffice mascot. This is just something fun for our community to use, for instance on T-shirts at events, so it doesn’t have to be ultra slick and professional – it isn’t a replacement for the official branding and logos that we use in the software, website and marketing materials.…
LibreOffice Mascot: Iterating the submissions
tl;dr: Please comment at https://imageboard.documentfoundation.org/posts
The voting phase has been conducted with great success. More than 27,000 people had a look at the submissions and many voted on all items. Thanks a lot for your interest and contribution! There has also been some discussion on various social media channels about the procedure.…
LibreOffice Extension: How to Bundle Icon Themes
Making LibreOffice more flexible is one of our primary goals announced with the MUFFIN concept. Extensions are a great way for personalization and just like we did for color palettes, we’ve now made icon themes available as extensions. This blog post describes how to create and share your own icon theme extension.…
A Flock of Hummingbirds: On the Search for the LibreOffice Mascot
tl;dr: Please vote on the LibreOffice Mascot until Oct/08th at https://survey.documentfoundation.org/665628 (survey expired)
Additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to introduce an alternative to TDF’s trademarked logo/icon elements that can be used by the community with minimal restrictions.…
What motif for the next release do you prefer?
We asked recently for branding proposals for the upcoming release of LibreOffice. The task was also announced on the job board of the Open Source Design group and we got a couple of replies on their discourse forums. Below you we show the motifs embedded in the splash screen.…
Results from table styles survey
Table styles have been introduced in LibreOffice Writer 5.3 as the successor to the AutoFormat feature. The table designs from this old feature were used as the initial set of table styles, so we asked on the design mailing list to submit proposals for new table designs and finally ran a survey to include the entire community in the process.…