Ubuntu Desktop

Canonical
15 October 2010

A space odyssey

Design Ubuntu

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing and kerning. Type designer from past to present all agree on one thing: the spacing between the letters is as important as the letters themselves, if

Canonical
15 October 2010

Canonical
11 October 2010

42 day widget

Notes Ubuntu

Yesterday we successfully released the new versions of Ubuntu family. As you all know, yesterday was such a special date which occurs every 100 years: 10/10/10. But if you are a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as we are, you would also know that 42 is THE answer. Since 101010 is 42

Canonical
11 October 2010

Canonical
8 October 2010

This week in design – 8 October 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s release week! That means that the Millbank London office and home office locations this week are a buzz with activity getting things ready for our big release on Sunday. The members of the kernel team, and others, are modeling our very swanky new banners which are going out to eligible loco teams in the

Canonical
8 October 2010

Canonical
4 October 2010

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

Design Ubuntu

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its utterly mundane name no-one would guess the wealth of shapes and glyphs. This specific and somehow obscure character set gathers 195 glyphs supporting a good mix of...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Marcus Haslam
1 October 2010

New t-shirts

Notes Ubuntu

The new Maverick Meerkat and Natty Narwhal t-shirt delivery came in this morning, looking tip top I have to say. Check out the MM on the shop site in mens and ladies styles. For Natty you’ll just have to wait ’til UDS Im afraid.

Marcus Haslam
1 October 2010

Canonical
1 October 2010

Ubuntu emoticons

Design Ubuntu

“Say hello to my little friends…” I’ve just completed a set of emoticons that more closely follow our visual identity to replace the defaults on the Canonical Design Blog. The old ones grated rather badly in my opinion and stuck out as something that needed attention. We are still determining exactly what colours we intend

Canonical
1 October 2010

This week in design – 1 October 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next release of Ubuntu releases on the 10th October but the release candidate is out there now and as I write this the final release meeting of the

Canonical
1 October 2010

Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

29 days later

Article Ubuntu

It’s been 29 days since I’ve started working at Canonical and, let me tell you, they went by really fast. In the past few weeks I have worked on lots of projects and there is a lot more in the pipeline. I’ve mainly been working on the “realign” (rather than “redesign”) of canonical.com and ubuntu.com;

Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu font represents the values of Ubuntu and Canonical, distilled into a typeface that is highly legible on screen, clean and balanced in print, professionally designed yet imbued with the wisdom of the whole Ubuntu community. I hope it’s a benchmark for more libre font work, and a catalyst for improvements in...

Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Canonical
23 September 2010

Intial Hebrew trials

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we arrived at some of the basic proportions. Pages 1 to 5 deal with the proportional relationship of the Hebrew height against the Latin x- and

Canonical
23 September 2010

Canonical
22 September 2010

The future of books?

Design Cloud and server

Check out these lovely ebook touchscreen concepts from IDEO. The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Canonical
22 September 2010

Canonical
21 September 2010

Did you know?

Article Ubuntu

An introduction to the magical world of Application Screenshots and how to improve the images displayed in Ubuntu’s software catalog.

Canonical
21 September 2010

Canonical
17 September 2010

This week in design – 17 September 2010

Notes Ubuntu

Photo by Ralph courtesy of Flickr Normally we spend a lot of time thinking about how to work on things in a an open way. This week the big news was all about closure as the final freeze on the desktop for 10.10 is now upon us. This means that we enter a period of

Canonical
17 September 2010

Canonical
15 September 2010

It’s all about Greek

Design Ubuntu

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 on our intuition and experience to create the letter shapes; we feel when a character is right or wrong. When designing a non-Latin typeface we

Canonical
15 September 2010

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