[ubuntu-art] WAS Matte for the next release?

[Troy James Sobotka]

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Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
> IMHO brown is one of the ugliest colours. I'm sorry but it reminds me of
> several bad things. Please don't decide to make a brown theme, orange is
> ways better.


I'm sorry to bother the list responding to this, but I feel
that I must.

This is the absolute most rubbish opinion ever offered up.

It is a poorly researched, poorly understood, and knee jerk
reaction.  Your understanding is not only misguided, it is
riddled with flaws that anyone with any ounce of design sense
would understand.


Ubuntu's brown is pitiful _only_ because of poor execution.  Arguably,
brown is having a bit of a second life in many other areas of design.

Notably, as has been said a 100000 times before:

1) Ubuntu's use of brown is monochromatic and extremely underwhelming.
A compliment or split compliment would fix this along with the
permission to use contrast from lights to darks.  Brown could easily
remain the base if fleshed out with some supporting cast members.

2) Brown has been used many times by many different designers
extremely effectively.  Of notable worth you may wish to research
some contemporary designs utilizing crests, grunge, etc.  Common
pairings are brown with the compliment blue.  Starbucks recently
launched a new campaign using brown as a base with white and a
petal blue.  And yes, many design awards have been won with brown
as a base.

3) "Orange is always better".  Superlatives are an immediate sign
that the statement is probably riddled with flaws.  Make no mistake,
monochromatic orange is no better than monochromatic brown.  For further
reflection on this, compare the weak Fedora 8 work to the extremely
strong Fedora 7 work.  The horribly monotonous work in SUSE is also
a byproduct of monotony.

There is a line between consistency and monotony, and no matter what
colour or psycho-semantic-tripey rubbish that someone is trying to
peddle about color psychology, in the end, it is the monochromatic
lack of contrast that is killing Ubuntu's use of brown.

Sincerely,
TJS
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