Here’s my proposal:
The buttons, the LEDs and the headphone jack are aligned vertically centered. LEDs and surface of “Input” button, headphone jack and volume knob use a medium silver, aluminium or white. In my example picture the second optical input currently is selected. *Please* no gold, red, green or blue here! This should be serious audio equipment, not a Christmas tree in full bloom or an entrance to a red-light etablissement. I think the additonal highlight colour on the volume knob and on its edge is superfluous, a simple embossed dot is more than sufficient to indicate the volume position. I also would appreciate if the headphone jack was not surrounded by a pit, but would perfectly align with the surface of the front plate. And the pit (is it required?) surrounding the “Input” button should not be deeper and larger than the pits where the LEDs are placed in.
The exclusive use of lowercase letters is done intentionally. The typeface I used is called “Neue Helvetica 65 medium”. Since type is being used “negative” or “inverted” (white characters on black background), a slightly increased letterspacing is required, otherwise the characters would appear too tight and close together, making white text on black background difficult to read. This easily can be seen when comparing my font with the unaltered type in “Digital to Analog Converter” in the top right corner of Stan’s prototype photo.
As a personal sidenote let me add that I consider the name “Bushmaster” a bit strange and weird, but your mileage may vary.
Werner.
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Originally Posted by icehockeyboy
