[ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

[Niklas Weidel]

I'll put up the shiny logopart in various formats, including photoshop
original (sorry guys, i'm not gimped yet) and png. I'll look into setting up
a little wikisubpage for the stuff.

/Niklas

2006/6/27, Michiel Sikma <michiel at thingmajig.org>:
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> Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:13 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven:
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> >
> > Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:11 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende
> > geschreven:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Perhaps during the proposal phase we can offer up a good
> >> spectrum of similar ideas that feature branding through
> >> to non branding in a good gradual progression.
> >>
> >> We should probably collect this comment as well.  Niel?
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> >
> > It's also important to note that bright backgrounds just don't seem
> > to cut it in general due to the poor size and opacity of the shadow
> > underneath white text underneath desktop icons.
> >
> > That nice rendition of the logo that Niklas made might be useful in
> > other contexts, however.
> >
> > Michiel
> > michiel at thingmajig.org
> >
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> PS: Niklas, could you provide a source version or 32-bit transparent
> PNG of that logo (http://www.weidel.se/gfx/desktop2%201400.png)? I'm
> sure it'll be useful for others.
>
> Michiel
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