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Ever since we changed the logo, several of you have mentioned preferring the old logo to the new logo. On the other hand, some of you like the new logo.
Right now, it seems very divisive, and we're still at an early enough stage that changing the logo wouldn't be a big deal.
The New Logo
These are the various complaints we've heard about the new logo.
It was only around when we had far fewer members, but here are some issues we saw with it.
Simplifying The Current Logo
It seems like the main issues with the current logo are around the icon. One option we could go through with is just removing the graphic from the logo.
The image below is a very rough simplification of it, but it should give you an idea of what it looks like.
Creating An Entirely New Logo
With suggestions from all of you, we could try creating various mock-ups of logos and doing a poll on which one best fits the community.
Keep it in mind we're trying to attract people in similar adjacent niches and stay within the colour scheme of the website. White and black, like the old logo, is fine though.
Work With The Old Logo
We'd rather not just use the old logo again, but enough of you voted for this, we could switch back to it. At the very least though, we'd look into re-creating it in Illustrator and make some very small design adjustments to it. Look at the gap between the "L" and the "A" for example; we'd fill that in.
Keep The Current Logo
We could just keep the current logo as this is also an option, which is why it's been added to the poll.
The poll closes in one week
Right now, it seems very divisive, and we're still at an early enough stage that changing the logo wouldn't be a big deal.
The Logos We've Had So Far
The New Logo
These are the various complaints we've heard about the new logo.
- It's too niche.
- It's not representative of the community.
- The "green blood".
- The shape of the icon isn't necessarily clear, especially on small screens.
It was only around when we had far fewer members, but here are some issues we saw with it.
- We felt it was fairly obvious it was AI-generated. Some people might take issue with this, like it was lazy. We felt it gives the wrong impression.
- Even though we can make this, we don't have any vectors for it, which will be more problematic should need to resize it. Ultimately, we'd need to recreate it in Illustrator.
- It's off-centre/slanted.
- It was designed with any real thought in terms of what the community is about. The prompt was even fairly generic.
Our Options
Simplifying The Current Logo
It seems like the main issues with the current logo are around the icon. One option we could go through with is just removing the graphic from the logo.
The image below is a very rough simplification of it, but it should give you an idea of what it looks like.
Creating An Entirely New Logo
With suggestions from all of you, we could try creating various mock-ups of logos and doing a poll on which one best fits the community.
Keep it in mind we're trying to attract people in similar adjacent niches and stay within the colour scheme of the website. White and black, like the old logo, is fine though.
Work With The Old Logo
We'd rather not just use the old logo again, but enough of you voted for this, we could switch back to it. At the very least though, we'd look into re-creating it in Illustrator and make some very small design adjustments to it. Look at the gap between the "L" and the "A" for example; we'd fill that in.
Keep The Current Logo
We could just keep the current logo as this is also an option, which is why it's been added to the poll.
The poll closes in one week
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