[CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography

[Alain Reguera Delgado]

On 6/5/14, Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert at redhat.com> wrote:
> Confusion where?

Well, from a monolithic point of view. It might be confusing to have
one artistic motif in the installer, another in the
desktop-background, and other different in the web pages for the same
major release. In this case the artistic motif is a visual component
that helps to strengthen the visual connection between CentOS visual
manifestations and the release they refer to.

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

Yes. Although it is not limited to one particular computer, but the
entire project visual structure. I think it would be good for CentOS
project recognition to use the same artistic motif in all visual
manifestations it is made of (e.g., installer, desktop-backgrounds,
indexhtml, web pages, posters, stands, cards, everywhere). So, their
visual relation can be retained as we interact with them. In that
sake, each major release should have one unique visual style (artistic
motif), so no visual confusion can exist between major releases.

There seems to be a proportional relation between the number of visual
components we use to connect visual manifestations and the recognition
strength they provide (e.g., if we use more visual components to
connect visual manifestations, we achieve more recognition in them).

--al.