Commons:Stroke Order Project/Graphics guidelines

Commons:Stroke Order Project members ^<ed>
Black & white images :
Animations : FanNihongo
Red images :
Organisation and accessibility: Swift

General information edit

Fonts edit

See Commons:Stroke Order Project/Fonts for more.

As the images are to have a free license, the fonts we use should also be free. Seeing how regional variations have varying glyphs, different fonts must be used for each variant. For consistency in the images, each variant should aim to use the same or similar fonts.

File names edit

The characters are uploaded under their character, suffixed with a standard name depending on the style and stroke order variant. The following table indicates the suffixes.

	ROC standard	PRC standard	Japanese standard
Black and white series	-tbw.png	-bw.png	-jbw.png
Red gradients	-tred.png	-red.png	-jred.png
Animations	-torder.gif	-order.gif	-jorder.gif

License edit

Please use the {{SOlicense}} when uploading images.

Image types edit

Black and white strokes series edit

See Black and white strokes series for more.

Model of Bitmap image (PNG black and white)

Fonts: PRC characters: 汉鼎简楷体 (for Windows).; ROC characters: 教育部標準楷書 (see parent directory for other versions) from the R.O.C. Ministry of Education's National Languages Committee.
Font size: 90px (roughly! see discussion) Note that different fonts will deliver different sizes with the same pixel size.
Colours: Completed character: Black (RGB 0,0,0 or #000000).; Strokes: Dark gray (RGB 102,102,102 or #666666).; Charater background: Light gray (RGB 204,204,204 or #CCCCCC).; The arrow: Pure red (R:255 V:00 B:00); The dot: Pure green (R:00 V:255 B:00)
Software: Photoshop
Filename ending: <character>-<variant>bw.png

Red gradients edit

Model of Bitmap image (PNG from black to red)

Gradiant from Black to Red.

Fonts: PRC characters: 汉鼎简楷体 (for Windows).; ROC characters: 教育部標準楷書 (PC version; see parent directory for other versions) from the R.O.C. Ministry of Education's National Languages Committee.
Software: w:GIMP
Tools: The brush (pinceau); opacity: ~50%; using mode: only brightened/only darkened and "Incremental".
Filename ending: <character>-<variant>red.png
Steps

step: Open a vierge png file of 300px/300px
step: Write in black a centred character (size: 300px, font: San GunguSue Medium)
step: Count the strokes to know how many colours are needed.
step: Copy the colours needed from File:Reds chart 16.svg to the character you plan to make.
step: Select and fill in the colour for each stroke.
step: Save your image on the PNG format.

Time needed for a 5 stroke character: about 15–20 minutes (for a very pretty job)

Bitmap animations edit

Model of Bitmap animation (by wave = better)

Model of Bitmap animation (by stroke = able)

See: Bitmap animations using GIMP.
Those are the recommended and official guidelines to make the Stroke Order Project's animated images.

Fonts: The recommended font is TW-MOE-Std-Kai Regular"(which is only for traditional characters), edukai-4.0.zip
Software: w:GIMP.
Filename ending: <character>-<variant>order.gif

Note: there are also these guidelines: Bitmap animations, but are now obsolete.

Vector images and animations edit

Vector images and animations would be ideal, but hasn't gotten off the ground yet. This is in part due to the fact that, the W3C recommendation for the animation markup isn't agreed upon yet. User:Yug started work on these at Commons:Stroke Order Project/SVG. Feel free to join in to collaborate on the next big step for this project!