I fail to appreciate the points in this discussion without visuals Can someone point me to he offending graphics? URLs please? Regards Onyeibo On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 22:05 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > What do you think fellow, design team members? > > Full disclosure, I brought this up to Matthew yesterday when we were > discussing the ticket on converting the logo guidelines to asciidoc. > We realized they have to be updated with some of the new stuff we've > been working on (Fedora IoT logo, Fedora CoreOS logo, etc). And I > complained about how I wish I could update the logo too :-) > > I think a lot of us have struggled with the inability to do one color > and the off-centeredness of the bubble. (And wouldn't an open source > font be nice??) > > ~m > > > > Sent from my phone, not an iphone. > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/4/18 5:45 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Fedora Design Team <design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [Design-team] Re: Considering a logo refresh > > On 10/4/18 5:02 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Our "freedom + infinity + voice" logo is awesome -- but it also has > some > > problems: > > > > * It doesn't work well at small sizes > > * It doesn't work at all in a single color > > * The "voice" bubble means it's hard to center visually in designs > > * The Fedora wordmark is based on a non-open-source font > > * I'm tired of explaining that it's not Facebook > > > > As much as I love our "classic" logo, I think it may be time for a > refresh. > > > > It's not just about problems -- as we're getting into Year 15, and > five > > years (!) of Fedora.next, our editions strategy is drifting away > from > > "Fedora + logical thing" (like "Fedora Server" or "Fedora Cloud") > into more > > unique brands like "Fedora CoreOS" or "Fedora Silverblue". As I > said at > > Flock, the important thing about Fedora to me is the _people_ — I'd > like > > "Fedora" to be more assocated with the project and the community > rather than > > our software artifacts. I'd love to have a logo which can work as a > > "community umbrella". > > > > What do you think? > > > > This logic makes sense to me. I'm also open-minded to a 2018 refresh. > There should probably be some level of engagement with the Fedora > Design > Team on this too. > > It is too bad tattoos aren't as easy to update as Fedora. :) > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list -- design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to > design-team-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list -- design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to design-team-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
