Re: [Design-team] Alpha Banner [was: Upcoming scheduled tasks]

[Kris Thomsen <lakristho@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nicu, I don't think it's a good idea to use Serif-fonts and roman numbers in a banner - it doesn't look good or slick. Fedora should be a modern, slick and nice distribution - also when we use our "roman"-like theme :)

// Kris

2009/8/25 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:53 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 08/25/2009 02:31 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F12-alpha-banner-duffy.png
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Duffy-f12-banner.svgz
> >
> > i wasn't happy with the typography in Charlie's otherwise excellent
> > graphic so I made a revision, I hope it's ok
>
> I pushed Charlie into using serif fonts and Roman numerals for a more
> "antique" look but the text in your version is more readable.
>

Plus, thanks to it being shorter than the usual Alpha banner text
("Can't stand the wait? Fedora 12 Alpha, now available =>") it much
better occupies the space :-)

Martin

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