On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 3:24 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 15:13 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Of the two, I loved FC6 more, because I thought the way the Fedora > > logo was used throughout the artwork was really well-done. And it > > conveyed what I felt Fedora was about very well: Fedorans are the > > community, and the community is part of our DNA. Later Fedora releases > > did a good job providing a coherent theme based on codenames. > > > > For the past few years, we've lost a lot of visual differentiation as > > we've scaled back or killed off aspects of our unique per-release or > > project identity embodied in the distribution. There were even a > > couple of times where we went with what I felt to be uselessly bland > > artwork that I thought made Fedora look like a non-entity. > > > > The last few releases have had some interesting wallpapers, but we > > never quite got the same visual appeal that we had before. > > > > And to Michael's point about Ubuntu's branding, they have a set of > > design principles that they use to simultaneously present "Ubuntu" and > > the Ubuntu "release" by leveraging their codename scheme and imbuing > > it in the artwork in creative ways. That's not a thing we do in Fedora > > anymore... :( > > None of this is free, it needs people to show up and do the work. Just > as with coding or package management, there is very little value in > saying "boy, I sure wish someone else would do all this cool stuff I've > thought of". If you want it to happen, get together with like-minded > folks and do it... I know, and if I were anything resembling an artist, I would have done something about it. Alas, my skills are quite bad in this domain. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
