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Canonical
on 1 October 2010

Ubuntu emoticons

Design Ubuntu Desktop

“Say hello to my little friends…”

I’ve just completed a set of emoticons that more closely follow our visual identity to replace the defaults on the Canonical Design Blog. The old ones grated rather badly in my opinion and stuck out as something that needed attention. We are still determining exactly what colours we intend to use them in and where but I thought they would be a nice thing to share with everyone. Enjoy 😀

You can get a scaleable svg version here:
http://design.canonical.com/brand/Examples/Emoticons/emoticons.svg

The actual pngs are here:
http://design.canonical.com/brand/Examples/Emoticons/Emoticons.tar.gz

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