[RFC] Distro Branding Guidelines
Both Settings' About panel, and GNOME Initial Setup, show a distro logo extracted from the LOGO
field of /etc/os-release
. However, logos comes in different sizes and shaped, and can look bad if they have unoptimized sizes or shapes.
While for sure we won't be able to force distros to follow any specific style, I'm confident we can come up with some guidelines for them to make their branding look better on Settings and Initial Setup. Some things that come to my mind:
- Should distro logos have their names written textually in them?
- Should they be optimized for square spaces?
- Should they prefer landscape or portrait orientations?
- Should they have a minimum or a maximum size?
- Should the same asset be fully scalable, and look good even on e.g. 64x64?
This is how it looks on various distros:
- Arch
- Endless OS
- Fedora (they patch Settings
🙁 )
- Manjaro
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Design Tasks
-
Propose ideal sizing of distro logo -
Propose ideal shaping of distro logos -
Propose ideal format of distro logo (SVG? PNG? JPG?)
Development Tasks
-
Implement the proposed design changes -
Reach out to distros