[CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography

Thu Jun 5 12:11:17 UTC 2014
Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert at redhat.com>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alain Reguera Delgado" <alain.reguera at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography
>
> Hi Tuomas,
> 
> Thank you very much for your contributions. It would be fascinating if
> we could join forces in the CentOS artworks, coordinating directions,
> and distributing the work to get better results. I'm not a
> school-graduated artist but I feel an enthusiast of both programing
> and graphic design. I enjoy studying the work of others, and making
> contributions based on what I learn from them.

That is a decent plan of gaining experience and useful skills :) 

I'm happy to be of help.

> I haven't seen the new installer in action yet but, based on this, I
> am feeling quite happy with it :). Having the release number as text
> in the installer might reduce the need of having the release number
> inside the CentOS distribution artwork, too. For example, I guess it
> would be possible to create a strong visual connection between the
> CentOS release number (text), the CentOS logo (image), and the
> artistic motif (image) somehow in the installer so as to achieve low
> maintenance and still a consistent visual connection among these
> components.

> To avoid confusions, each major release of CentOS must use a unique
> artistic motif.

Confusion where? To make it easy to identify the CentOS version running
on a particular computer?

//T