Skip to main content

Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates from Canonical and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Marcus Haslam
1 October 2010

New t-shirts

Ubuntu Notes

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. ...


Canonical
1 October 2010

Ubuntu emoticons

Ubuntu Design

“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

Ubuntu Design

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 ...


Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

29 days later

Ubuntu Article

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; ...


Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

Ubuntu Design

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 the tools of typograp ...


Canonical
23 September 2010

Intial Hebrew trials

Cloud and server Article

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
22 September 2010

The future of books?

Cloud and server Design

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


Canonical
21 September 2010

Did you know?

Ubuntu Article

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


Canonical
17 September 2010

This week in design – 17 September 2010

Ubuntu Notes

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
15 September 2010

It’s all about Greek

Ubuntu Design

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
14 September 2010

Getting physical

Ubuntu Design

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there are several ways a person can control a computer besides keyboards, mice and touch screens. These days there are many alternatives, obviously based on hardware sensors, and the main ...


Canonical
13 September 2010

Screens everywhere

Ubuntu Design

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