FWN/Beats/Design

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In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team.

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

The Complementary Font

Máirín Duffy proposed a branding change for the complementary font used with the Fedora logo "our secondary font, MgOpen Modata, doesn't have basic accent marks (I can't even write my own name in it.) Do we want to consider switching to a different font that does?" and made a proposal "I found this font that has a similar rounded look (it's a wider and more widely-spaced font, but I think that's okay) and it seems to cover all the basic accents including acute, grave, umlat, circumflex, etc. It's called Quicksand."

Not everybody was happy with the new proposed font, like Fabian A. Scherschel "Personally, the lower-case 'a' in that font gives me a headache. I think it's not 'modern' enough looking for Fedora" or Paul W. Frields "Speaking only for my tastes, this font seems more excentric than Modata. The wider spacing could have a negative impact on content where we can effectively use Modata now."

Máirín also outlined the lack of an official body text "We don't actually have an official body text font (I tend to use Liberation Sans when laying out body text), maybe we should pick a specific one and add it to our brand guidelines" and Ian Weller made a proposal "We could use either Liberation or Droid. It matters not to me", with a good number of the team members supporting Droid.

Bi-Weekly Bounties

Máirín Duffy wrote on her blog and then on the Fedora Design mailing list about a new initiative to attract contributors "a bi-weekly blog post where we’ll outline a quick-and-easy design project that needs doing for the Fedora Community, outlining all the tools, files, and other resources you’ll need to complete the project." She presented the task, the rules, the tools and also the rewards and a couple of people responded