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Help us get a new LemmyNZ logo! (lemmy.nz)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/support@lemmy.nz
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Way back at the beginning, when genAI was new and LemmyNZ had but one user, our logo was created. It's terrible, it's AI generated, and I hate it.

lemmyNZ logo - kind of a 3d lemmyish creature with green rays coming out, with an AI generated vibe

I am keen to get a new one! There's also an option to get a new banner if that's what people want, though people have expressed that they like the current banner.

lemmyNZ banner - the famous Laser kiwi flag that was submitted to the flag competition when NZ tried to change it's flag. It's black with a silver fern at top left, and a kiwi shape on the bottom right with a green laser coming out of it's eyes down to just above the bottom left corner of the flag

This post is to ask for people to supply their ideas for a new logo or banner. Hopefully there are some artists out there that can help! After we have some options I will organise a vote.

Reply to this post with your suggestions or your submissions.

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (12 children)

We are still looking, that would be amazing if you could do something for us!

The logo is shown at the top left of the website, as well as in different places in different apps. I think the best is to do a 1:1 square that also looks good when cut down to a rounded rectangle and when cut to a circle!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Here are four icons that I've spun up. The originals are vectors so I can export them to any size, these are 400x400px PNG files.

    Will look at possibly painting something in the future, or doing pixel art, idk. I'm using this as an excuse for me to make something fun :)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Haha nice. What was the idea with the top left, what are the squiggly lines?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Art is fun :D

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Nice! Come up with all the ones you want and we can hold a vote on which are people's favourites!

    Since we're posting art, I'd better throw own my attempt from a few weeks back:

    lemmyNZ logo proposal with lemmy/kiwi creature in front of NZ flag

    Ok not very professional but it was one of the first times I've used inkscape. I was going for a lemming/kiwi hybrid.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Im on board with the size ratio, Im hoping you know what minimum pixel dimensions is needs? Eg: 128x128px

    If I do a big painting it would be muddy and hard to see when shrunk small, but if I do bright pixel art it would be blurry if scaled up. If you're not sure I might just do some kind of vector or cartoon.

    It will take me a day or three but I'll get something to you :)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The logo at the top left of the website seems to display pretty small. Seems like it might even be 30x30? Looking across various apps, it seems that the logo is typically displayed reasonably small.

    I think one other consideration is that it would need to work well on both dark and light themes.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Roger that! The desktop icon is indeed 30x30 when inspected. I wasn't sure if there was ever a large version used anywhere.

    Good call on the dark/light mode though, since I often use transparency that's important

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

    I wasn’t sure if there was ever a large version used anywhere.

    The think about a platform as open as Lemmy, is you can never be sure, because anyone can make an app. There are all the different website versions you can use to access Lemmy, of which we host 6 other than the default one (7 total), but others could also be running their own web apps.

    Then there are all the mobile apps, of which there are at least 13 across Android and iOS if you only count those still being updated.

    I had a quick look across the web apps we host and a few mobile apps I had on my phone, and the logo for the instance seems to only show in that small format across everything I checked. Community icons are often larger, but I couldn't find any apps showing the instance logo in a large format.

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