Jesse J. Finch Gnehm
That inch you propose cutting off is where the River City Bicycles'
logos are. While I appreciate wanting less flapping on your back, we've
got to take care of the sponsors that help underwrite OBRA. As great as
the folks at River City are, I doubt they'd be so generous in their
support without that piece of visibility.
-Jesse
Jesse J. Finch Gnehm 99
Director of Parent Giving
Willamette University
503-375-5319
503-602-2307 cell
Erik Voldengen wrote:
> Negative space is definitely required to see the numbers, but the "padding"
> outside the numbers is not all negative space. I could cut off 1 inch all
> the way around and it would be just as easy to read...
>
> And we're not talking about breaking the rules, we're talking about changing
> them...well, changing the numbers anyway.
>
> -Erik
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of Ron and Dorothy Strasser
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:02 PM
> To: cmurray@obra.org
> Cc: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] number sizes
>
> Right! put a plastic card on the front and call it good. That would never
> work I know! I know!
> I understand the contrast thing as I did graphic design for a few years so I
>
> stand corrected... but also I am a pretty small guy (5'8") and had no
> problem fitting the number on my jersey at the cross races in Eugene this
> fall. They do not seem that large. I think my fold idea was just a guy
> thing... "trying to solve the problem"... maybe he really just wanted
> someone to "listen"... not solve the problem. I have given enough bad
> advice for the day. I be done!
> ron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Candi Murray"
> To: "'Ron and Dorothy Strasser'"
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] number sizes
>
>
>
>> You can tell you are a mtn bike guy. ;-)
>> Folding a number is against the rules.
>> Candi
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ron and Dorothy Strasser
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:20 PM
>> To: Brian Mack; obra@list.obra.org
>> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] number sizes
>>
>> Fold it when you pin it on.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brian Mack"
>> To:
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] number sizes
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I think that Erik's complaint was not that the numbers themselves are
>>> too big, but that the huge chunk of spandex they are printed on is. Can
>>> we get ride of some of the extra material?
>>>
>>> My number has more than 2 inches of white space on all four sides. So
>>> it's about 4.5 inches taller and wider than it needs to be. Which means
>>> that why I put it on my jersey, it gets in my armpits and I can't use my
>>> back pockets. It's impossible to pin it on correctly. It's also very
>>> unattractive.
>>>
>>> I suspect it's too late to get different numbers for 2007. Scissors?
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Mack
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