A year ago, Fedora announced that it was going to change the design of its logo. Sometimes, the changes are difficult to fit, and more if those changes are in the interface of a software and end up making it difficult to find some options. What Fedora did in its day was rather to stylize its logo, simplify it, giving it a more modern image but without moving too far from what they already had. Canonical has decided to do the same for Ubuntu, but in this case it seems that something else is noticeable, and it does so for three reasons.
The most important thing is the friend circle, which is the logo itself. In 2004 a logo was created in which circles represented heads and curved lines represented arms. The design is known as CoF, for the acronym in English for "Circle of Friends", and when it was updated about a decade ago the design was kept, changing only that it would become white on an orange circle. Already in 2022, the logo will change shape, which by itself is not such a drastic change, but it is when we add it all up.
New Ubuntu logo, with new background and spelled differently
If we go right now to the official website of the project, top left, below the Canonical name, we see what it would look like all together, with name and logo. The word “ubuntu” appears, in lowercase, with the logo at the top right. The background is orange, and the text and logo are white. As we see in the following video, things will change a lot in a month or so.
The logo appears in a rectangle, more specifically at its bottom, and the word "Ubuntu" appears to its right. The initial will be capitalized, something that personally seems so strange to me that I have even considered referring to the operating system in lowercase because that is how Canonical writes it today. If I haven't, it's simply because, although we do write others like "elementary OS" or "postmarketOS", "ubuntu" doesn't fit as well, probably because it doesn't have any other capital letters like the "OS" above.
Canonical hired the same designer who made the change from version 1 to version 2 of the CoF, but this time I think the change is much bigger. We'll see how the official website appears on next April 21, when Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is released, but I can already tell you that, at the very least, that "U" shouldn't be like that. A matter of taste, but the comments on the YouTube video seem to be unanimous: Canonical, no. You can do better, and you're in time to back down.
The first one is perfect and immortal… what should be changed is the desktop, continue with gnome 2 or rather mate!