Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 12/24/04

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To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>, Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>

    On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote:
    >Nikolas Britton wrote:
    >> 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site
    >> with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of
    >> Cascading Style Sheets?)
    >
    > CSS? Isnt that a bit outdated? Isnt that more a Windows thing?

    Actually, no. Nikolas is right here. The sans serif fonts look much
    better and are more readable on the monitor. Times looks better on
    paper.

    > >3. The color scheme is not "complementary" anyone who has been to art
    > >school or taken design classes will know what I talking about, read up
    > >about basic color theory here:
    > >http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html (again, ever
    > >here of Cascading Style Sheets??)
    >
    > Guess what mate - most of us are NOT into art. Get real. Deal with the
    > OS, not the look and feel of the site. Do I really care if a design
    > has passion blue opposed to blue?

    The fact that we don't know a lot about art and design is not a good
    excuse for reacting badly to anyone that says so.

    Nikolas, there is an effort to redesign the web site, using CSS as much
    as possible for style & layout, making sure that the entire site has a
    consistent look and feel. Your comments show that you know a bit about
    design. If you believe you can help with such an effort, please contact
    us at <freebsd-www@freebsd.org> and assist the team who works on the web
    site.

    > Do you really thing techies are THAT into pastels? If you want to re
    > design something (Actually - is sounds like you have been watching way
    > too much TLC) then get a gig on Monster House.
    >
    > >4. I like the Beastie logo on the boot loader screen but ASCII art is
    > >unprofessional... It would be better if you made the color ASCII beastie
    > >the default.
    >
    > Who cares?!?! It's resource friendly tho...

    ``Who cares?'' is exactly the sort of bad PR that Nikolas is right
    about. Please avoid inflammatory material, if possible :-/

    Nikolas, there is a good reason why the ASCII art logo is not using
    colors by default. Many people use FreeBSD with a serial console, and
    sending colors over a serial port connection is a bit silly: annoying an
    a waste of precious serial connection bandwidth. This is why the loader
    logo doesn't use fancy colors by default.

    - Giorgos

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