It may have seemed quiet around AerynOS of late, however work has been ongoing in the background on multiple fronts.
You may have noticed the new logo for AerynOS popped up a couple of weeks ago without any real explanation. This post serves to be somewhat of an official launch!
When SerpentOS rebranded to AerynOS last February, we needed a new logo. At the time, we invited contributions from our users and eventually settled on our old logo as a temporary measure whilst we got something for the long term. With Ikey stepping away and priorities shifting, we stuck with the old logo longer than we would have liked.
An initial version of our new design (a version of a triquetra) was originally suggested last year as part of those contributions. Over the last few months, we have picked up the rebranding topic and worked with our community on Zulip to fine-tune the design and color scheme until we got to our final version.
Over the course of April, the team has been updating our online presence (websites, social media pages, donation websites etc) and have now finished the transition in full. One exception is that our boot screen still shows the old logo, this will be fixed in the coming days when our kernel is next updated.
With the logo, we have selected a new brand color palette:
Green: Links to nature like our tooling (moss, boulder, summit, avalanche etc)
Orange: Links to Rust which is our primary programming language
We have a light theme variation which has a different orange for better contrast on light backgrounds.
You can find the official assets in our branding repo: https://github.com/AerynOS/brand/
We hope you like the new branding and this will now allow us to continue working on our new website redesign as our next background workstream.
