[Clipart] Question about style guidelines

[Nicu Buculei]

Joanna Pszenicyn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am collecting opinions on Style Guidelines:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/wiki/Style_Guidelines

I take issue with a guideline saying such things like:
"thin black strokes for individual surfaces of appr. 1px;  think black 
outline for the whole drawing of appr. 6px"

We work with vectors, so the width is relative to the image size. Using 
such width, they will impose me a certain size for the final result, 
something I don't want.

Take as an example this image for a large set I am preparing for 
submission: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/games/blacksmith.svg (in the end 
it will be colored)
Is it "cartoon"? "outline"? "lineart"? neither?

> * Would you prefer otline versions of existing images  to be stored
> along wit the original, as Gerald_G does:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/media/files/Gerald_G/5814 
> 
> or is it better to store them as separate submissins, tagged as "outline"?

Excellent question! I wonder about this myself.
The above mentioned set will comprise over 50 images, both with an 
outline and colored version.
I was thinking to put them together and the reason was only not to be 
seen as an abuser who want to increase his image count (and ranking).

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