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It applies to all major releases of CentOS distribution.

One theme for all major releases
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Sometimes, specific visual manifestations are formed by common components which have internal differences. That is the case of CentOS distribution visual manifestation.

Since a visual style point of view, the CentOS distributions share common artwork components like Anaconda ---to cover the CentOS distribution installation---, BootUp ---to cover the CentOS distribution start up---, and Backgrounds ---to cover the CentOS distribution desktop---.  Now, since a technical point of view, those common artwork components are made of software improved constantly. So, we need to find a way to keep one unique name and one unique visual style in artwork components that have internal difference and also remark internal difference as well.

     Important Remarking the CentOS release schema inside each major release of CentOS distribution ---or similar visual manifestation--- takes high attention inside The CentOS Project corporate visual identity. It should be very clear for people which major release of CentOS distribution they are using.

In order to remark the CentOS release schema, the CentOS Artwork SIG uses a release-specific brand design named ``The CentOS Release Brand''. The CentOS release brand is compossed by the CentOS logotype and the CentOS major release number (as specified in CentOS release schema definition). In this solution, the CentOS release brand is set inside all release-specific artworks (e.g., distribution, installation media, etc.) in remarkable way.   The CentOS release brand is the design component that lets us remark the CentOS release schema inside the monolithic corporate visual identity structure we propose to use.

One theme for each major release
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Other way we've been using to remark CentOS release schema is applying one unique theme for each major release of CentOS distribution.  That is, if we have 4 major releases of CentOS distribution, we need to provide 4 different themes to cover each CentOS distribution available.

Inside CentOS Artwork Repository, you can create many themes and that is very convenient. But using one unique theme for each major release of CentOS distribution would bring visual isolation among distributions, websites and promotion visual manifestations. If the CentOS project would maintain just one CentOS distribution (and many experienced graphic designers ready to create beautiful artworks) this model would be nice. Indeed, this model looks quite similar to that one used by Fedora project, doesn't it. But no, the CentOS project maintains near to 4 major releases of CentOS distribution in parallel, and that fact makes a huge difference since the corporate visual identity point of view.

If we use one unique theme for each major release of CentOS distribution, which one of those themes, does we use to cover other CentOS visual manifestations, like websites and promotion stuff?

In whatever case you choose some release-specific distribution user will be visually isolated from other CentOS visual manifestations like websites and promotion stuff, even if the CentOS brand is present in all visual manifestations. In such a case, probably, users will end up asking themselves, why my CentOS distribution has this design and the CentOS website another one? Isn't them on the same project? With luck the CentOS brand will exonerate user form visual isolation.

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