[ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

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On 6/27/06, Troy James Sobotka <troy.sobotka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-27-06 at 07:33 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> > The desktop colour should not be too bright, or it becomes tiring to
> > look at all day. We generally have chosen to go with darker, richer
> > colours so that there is less strain on the eyes. Also, we are
> > preferring not to have distro branding that is so obvious  (the big
> > Ubuntu logo) but instead to choose images which are distinctive enough
> > that they are immediately recognisable in screenshots to anyone who
> > has worked with Ubuntu before.
>
>
> I think this is very important.  We need to establish a
> clear idea as to how much branding is acceptable.

For me, the branding on the Breezy background was great - it belnded
in very well with the backdrop - an generally looked 'cool'.