[Design-team] Fwd: Fedora 12 Alpha release banner

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:45 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:42:38PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > On 08/05/2009 01:35 PM, Paolo Leoni wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there, we're near to F12 alpha relese, so I've uploaded a proposal
> > > for release banner:
> > >
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/4/46/Deepsky-fedora12alpha-banner1.png
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/9/9e/Deepsky-fedora12alpha-banner1.svg
> > 
> > Don't you think is a bit overkill to embed a bitmap for such a background?
> > 
> > And maybe the bottom text can be pixel-aligned a bit better, I find it a 
> > bit blurry.
> 
> And that darned "1" in the "12" is always kerned badly by default; I
> suggest squeezing it together with the "2" a bit.

And use the non-bold version of modata for the 12... the bold I think
should be used more sparingly; it's a little awkward-looking. While it's
naughty, if you want to make the 12 stronger, use a 1px or so white
stroke on it instead.

~m