Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 3, 2010 21:54 UTC (Wed) by kh (guest, #19413)
Parent article: Ubuntu changing its look

I could put up with brown, but purple?!? I usually just ignore default themes because I just don't care that much, but I might actually have to start spending time altering colors.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 3, 2010 22:00 UTC (Wed) by jonas.bonn (subscriber, #47561) [Link] (1 responses)

Haven't you heard? Purple is the new brown.

Not exactly purple

Posted Mar 3, 2010 22:20 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Argh, that horrible aubergine (eggplant) color pops up again!

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 3, 2010 22:26 UTC (Wed) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link] (1 responses)

Purple is not necessarily bad, but the gradient from purple to orange has some really ugly intermediate colors. I think it's better to have those colors strictly separated, and do gradients between something like purple and blue. I created a quick color test, which I think looks decent: http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1727/colortestw.png

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 3, 2010 22:49 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Purple is not bad at all it was one of Sun's recognition mark for years, say what, decades!

When they initially started with brown, people associated it with dirt, mud and uh some "completey different" things that need not be elaborated upon here. No doubt they want to get away from these associations. Orange would have worked, but their theme ended up being brown, not orange. (Amateur designer's hint: don't have any pixel with a lightness below 128/255 for Orange.)

Now, the first association I had with purple was http://cinie.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pimp.jpg . In a way, that seems to just _completely fit_ Ubuntu.

Colour choice

Posted Mar 4, 2010 11:04 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

I expected that by now user interfaces would have returned to being mostly black and white, now that every device has a colour display and it's not cool and shiny any more. After all, the document or the web page you're displaying is what needs to capture the user's attention, not the chrome around it.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 13:07 UTC (Thu) by maro (guest, #34315) [Link]

To be fair, all the good colors are already taken.

I think it's good they use different colors. You can recognize a
distribution on thumbnailed screenshots like this:

Red: Red Hat
Green: SuSE
Blue: Fedora
Ripped off Mac OS X interface with l33t fonts collected all over the
internet: Ubuntu