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Logo and favicon #110

Closed carlaberkers closed 5 years ago

carlaberkers commented 5 years ago

Favicon currently missing.

For the logo should we use the Canonical logo? Or better Ubuntu? Or make something new? The owl is cute but an out of date pictogram we are no longer using.

Be good to hear thoughts on this.

nottrobin commented 5 years ago

I like the idea of something new if a designer has time to create it. I think it should be more Canonical than Ubuntu.

kwm14 commented 5 years ago

@carlaberkers @nottrobin I can take a look at this, I did the lockups for Ubuntu design and Blog so will follow the same styling 👍

nottrobin commented 5 years ago

@kwm14 would it be possible to base the logo off the Canonical brand rather than the Ubuntu brand?

There's an ongoing discussion about trying to tie disparate products back to our corporate brand, and reduce the pollution of the Ubuntu brand with stuff that's unrelated to the operating system and its community.

I was hoping this could form a sort of first step in that direction.

nottrobin commented 5 years ago

@kwm14 also bear in mind https://github.com/canonical-webteam/practices/issues/109 - "Web and design team practices"

kwm14 commented 5 years ago

Quick exploration

Using Canonical brand rather than Ubuntu.

001

visual-001

002

visual-002

003

visual-004

004

visual-005

nottrobin commented 5 years ago

Quick work @kwm14! I think I like 1 and 4 - the "CANONICAL" word is a bit loud and garish next to the title. Maybe I'm leaning towards 4?

kwm14 commented 5 years ago

@nottrobin agree that "CANONICAL" word is loud and potentially looks disconnected from 'Web and design team practices'

Quick solution would be 001 and simply replacing the owl with our Canonical circle - https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/60d9b81e-picto-canonical.svg

I also like 004 but not sure how complicated that is to do in code, I guess we can strip styling applied to https://www.ubuntu.com/ navigation?

nottrobin commented 5 years ago

@kwm14 okay I'll just replace the logo with https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/60d9b81e-picto-canonical.svg for now. We can evolve this down the line.