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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/04/16 09:06, Nathan Haines wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 12:47 AM, Alan Bell wrote:
> > On 12/04/16 03:52, Nathan Haines wrote:
> > > brand orange (which seems to have changed over the past six months)
> > why has it changed? It seems to have quietly been changed from #dd4814
> > ...
> > to #E95420 in the ui toolkit palette
>
> Your guess is as good as mine.  I would have imagined this to be 
> pretty important, considering how important branding is to Canonical 
> (and it's facilitated some fantastic community work).
yeah, there are a ton of community generated logos and web things that 
are all wrong if the colour of Community Orange is changing - and nobody 
knows if it should be updated or not.
> I'd be inclined to be more cynical about it, but the Canonical Design 
> Team tends to have a method to their madness.  I just wish they'd tell 
> us sooner!
The quietness kind of implies that the reason is something not 
broadcastable, like a trademark dispute that they are folding on, but I 
can't imaging anyone having a trademark on an exact colour 
specification. Plus given that nobody cares about bug #1505970 
trademarks don't seem to be a major concern to the phone project.

Can't say I have particularly strong feelings either way about the blue, 
however this change to the Orange is really significant and puzzling.


Alan.