Hi all,
Cool to see this set come back once again!
I have some concerns regarding the arrow placement. I was scratching my head when I saw the explanation of the old down arrows ending in the middle of the cap. And the new ones being centered on the middle point. None of these things seem to be correct. The old legends actually go further down than the middle, and the new ones are not centered in the middle but also sitting further down. So the idea of it being centered is not really what is currently happening.
The second issue is the weight distribution of the symbol (the arrow) it self. They can simply not just be centered, but they need to be optically centered to not seem off (because of its odd shape).
In the new revised version it seems to me that the arrow is sitting too low, thus making it feel really bottom heavy and not centered at all (to me at least).
I made a quick sketch to show what I mean. My revised version is the one on the far right.
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See this as constructive feedback, and it's just my opinion .. happy to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!
First of all, thank you for putting in the effort to help this set be the best it can be.
This mockup was simply meant to be a basic, visual representation of the changes; not a schematic for the changes. I never expected it be taken as such. I do not have the official vectors from GMK on the arrows, so these are just manually hand made icons, that definitely are not to spec. As you can see, the simple cap models are not even to spec to a real cap, just enough to demonstrate. We all know that just explaining something with words is not enough. So I don't want people to be scared when looking at your analysis of these mockups and think this is 100% what they will look like, down to the mm. We just needed to show the difference in the top left vs the centered legends.
With that said...Your comment did make me go back and look at the mockup to see if I could better represent them and I did find that the legends are poorly centered (as you pointed out) therefore creating the problems you have discussed. I have corrected the alignment issues on all the caps for a better representation of what the changes will be. But once again, these are
not meant to be seen as an
exact end result.
Also, another thing you mentioned is our (my) explanation of the legends ending in the middle of the cap being incorrect. You are correct in me being incorrect. The legends do go over the center line, so it would probably be better to just say they are Top Left Aligned. So I admit that was an incorrect way of explaining it. However, it does not change the goal and end result of what we want to accomplish. But I appreciate you calling it out so we can correct it.
Updated mockup is below
