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title: Aurora Press Kit
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Thank you for engaging and generating content about Aurora and Universal-Blue, it means a lot!

Explanation of how to use the branding and terminology for the Aurora project is detailed down below.

## Terminology

The project is known as `Aurora` and there are no abbreviations of it.

Aurora is built with and on [Universal Blue](https://universal-blue.org), which publishes the base images that it uses. These in turn are derived from [Fedora's Kinoite](https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/) images. Universal Blue also builds other similar images including [Bluefin](https://projectbluefin.io), [Bazzite](https://bazzite.gg), and [uCore](https://projectucore.io). It also acts as the GitHub organization for all of these projects including Aurora.

### Proper Usage

- Aurora: Used to refer to this project and the operating system.
- Aurora DX: Used to refer to the "Developer Experience (-DX)" edition of Aurora.

### Improper Usage

- AuroraOS - or any addition of "OS" to the name
- Fedora Aurora - we are not directly related to Fedora and this name implies that. Checkout the [Mission Document](https://universal-blue.org/mission.html) from Universal Blue.
- Universal Blue Aurora or uBlue Aurora - "Aurora is built with Universal Blue" or "Aurora is an Universal Blue image" is recommended instead.
- "Immutable Distribution" - Aurora is an operating system, it is neither immutable nor a distribution, it is a custom image based on Fedora.

## Artwork

### Logo

![Main Aurora Logo](/img/aurora-logo.svg)
![Aurora Text Logo](/img/aurora-text-logo.svg)

This is Aurora's logo and wordmark. The white variant of the logo is available [here](/img/aurora-logo-white.svg).

Delphic Melody (`@furtivetardigrade` on Discord) and `@zandrro` created this logo with the advice and instruction of numerous members of the Universal Blue Discord server.

### Mascot

The official Aurora mascot is Scope, created by [Chandeleer](https://ko-fi.com/chandeleer).

![Aurora Mascot](/img/aurora_mascot.png)

### Wallpaper

The main wallpaper used in all Aurora variants is this one, created by [Chandeleer](https://ko-fi.com/chandeleer).

![Aurora Wallpaper](/img/aurora_wallpaper.png)
