Canonical

Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

1489 posts by Canonical

It’s all about Greek

by Canonical on 15 September 2010

We are familiar with the Latin alphabet; we are used to seeing it’s forms and shapes and we read it without thinking. When we design Latin fonts, we can rely...

Getting physical

by Canonical on 14 September 2010

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there...

Screens everywhere

by Canonical on 13 September 2010

This is a fabulous little invention especially as I’m a keen cyclist in the city.Nicked from Steve Clayton’s fabulous blog.

This week in design – 10 September 2010

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

I don’t want to sound like a broken record but “PHEW! What a week”. Next Thursday will be our final freeze for Maverick. After this point it’s full steam...

Which way to slant the Hebrew

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading...

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you 🙂 This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! 😀...

Charactersets

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu...

Meerkats like the sun?!

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

Today I got another e-mail from a statue. There’s a perfectly normal sentence … This time from a beach where Rick says he’s having an amazing time relaxing...

Exciting things in the post!

by Canonical on 8 September 2010

A couple of months back Marcus and I got a call from a magazine in Japan who wanted to produce stickers for Ubuntu. We’d _just_ signed off the new logo and...

We are hiring: Design Engineer

by Canonical on 6 September 2010

We are looking for a Design Engineer with superb technical and communication skills to join the Design Team. Is that you?

This week in design – 3 September 2010

by Canonical on 3 September 2010

This week was a short one in the UK but it seems as though we set out to fill it with as much as we possibly could! For a start we hit beta this week. If...

In Brazil?!

by Canonical on 3 September 2010

Came in this morning to a mail from Rick, my Meerkat who went for a walk a little while ago. Apparently he was giving a keynote at Linuxcon!! More as I get it