-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > IMHO brown is one of the ugliest colours. I'm sorry but it reminds me of > several bad things. Please don't decide to make a brown theme, orange is > ways better.
I'm sorry to bother the list responding to this, but I feel that I must. This is the absolute most rubbish opinion ever offered up. It is a poorly researched, poorly understood, and knee jerk reaction. Your understanding is not only misguided, it is riddled with flaws that anyone with any ounce of design sense would understand. Ubuntu's brown is pitiful _only_ because of poor execution. Arguably, brown is having a bit of a second life in many other areas of design. Notably, as has been said a 100000 times before: 1) Ubuntu's use of brown is monochromatic and extremely underwhelming. A compliment or split compliment would fix this along with the permission to use contrast from lights to darks. Brown could easily remain the base if fleshed out with some supporting cast members. 2) Brown has been used many times by many different designers extremely effectively. Of notable worth you may wish to research some contemporary designs utilizing crests, grunge, etc. Common pairings are brown with the compliment blue. Starbucks recently launched a new campaign using brown as a base with white and a petal blue. And yes, many design awards have been won with brown as a base. 3) "Orange is always better". Superlatives are an immediate sign that the statement is probably riddled with flaws. Make no mistake, monochromatic orange is no better than monochromatic brown. For further reflection on this, compare the weak Fedora 8 work to the extremely strong Fedora 7 work. The horribly monotonous work in SUSE is also a byproduct of monotony. There is a line between consistency and monotony, and no matter what colour or psycho-semantic-tripey rubbish that someone is trying to peddle about color psychology, in the end, it is the monochromatic lack of contrast that is killing Ubuntu's use of brown. Sincerely, TJS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHRiX9ar0EasPEHjQRArGaAKDGxK1DOvkM9QkcrM04gKe+13bOhACgmu0Z WYgOUoU2ikHTX3ot6Ledc/0= =Rebz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
