New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Wed May 10 22:51:38 UTC 2006


Ceri Davies wrote:
> On 10/5/06 23:37, "martinko" <martinkov at pobox.sk> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ceri Davies wrote:
>>     
>>> On 9/5/06 15:57, "wc_fbsd at xxiii.com" <wc_fbsd at xxiii.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so
>>>>> is the font they've started to use since the announcement of
>>>>> FreeBSD6.1-RELEASE. At
>>>>>           
>>>> Me Too.  At first I thought it was just a petty complaint.
>>>>
>>>> But if you're trying to "sell" FreeBSD to a boss or customer, a
>>>> serious, business-like web site surely helps.  The new one seems to
>>>> borrow too much from the "hax0r" community's appearance.
>>>>
>>>> And the font overflows and looks like complete shit on my
>>>> browser;  usually this would just be blamed on using a "Non Microsoft
>>>> Browser" (FireFox on windoze) but until we have IE for FBSD, it seems
>>>> a legit complaint.
>>>>         
>>> The font overflows?  We didn't change the font.
>>>
>>> Ceri
>>>       
>> well, i would expect the page to scale somehow better when i try to
>> increase font size in mozilla. but if it can't even render properly when
>> i choose "officially" via "large" text size option right on the page,
>> then i must conclude it's not good and not ready for the public. :-(
>>     
>
> That's an issue for www@ -> over there.  It also has nothing to do with the
> logo.
>
> Ceri
>   

sure, i was replying on rendering issue ("font overflows").
anyway, i'm sending this to www@ as you suggested.

martin


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