Fabulous: Logo, getting started links for fsharp.org

[dsyme]

I've just been over https://fsharp.org cleaning things up. Thousands of people visit that site each year and click on the Use F# for Mobile Apps getting started and "F# for Mobile Apps Guide" links.

Fabulous is now listed as one of the options there, however

• The getting started material likely needs to be improved in Fabulous docs. We currently link to https://fsprojects.github.io/Fabulous/Fabulous.XamarinForms/index.html#getting-started.

• There is no thumb logo for Fabulous.

It would be great to improve these things

[dsyme]

Maybe we could rip off the FsBolero home page and adapt :-) https://fsbolero.io/

It's very good!

[TimLariviere]

Maybe we could rip off the FsBolero home page and adapt :-)

Yes. Fabulous needs a proper website now.
Kinda hard to read the docs currently.
I know @SergejDK wanted to improve that.

There is no thumb logo for Fabulous.

Tried my hand at a logo for Fabulous and Fabulous.XamarinForms.
Let me know what you think.

• Small icons
  
  

• Banners
  

[dsyme]

Somehow the logo doesn't feel quite right - something more with the circular flow feel of redux/react feels more right?

(I don't think Fabulous XF needs a logo - the "brand" can just be Fabulous - marketing should be really really simple - we sell something as technical as Azure with pictures of blue skies and fluffy clouds)

[TimLariviere]

Another idea with 3 components (M-V-U) getting mixed into a bigger one (the application):

• Small icon
  

• Banner
  

[dsyme]

I like that. Maybe a few too many elements (implies complexity?). But the swirl is great

[TimLariviere]

Removed the inner circle and enlarged the hole inside the swirl.

Or even wider:

[TimLariviere]

I do like it the same way than before, just without the inner orange circle.

[SergejDK]

Yes. Fabulous needs a proper website now.
Kinda hard to read the docs currently.
I know @SergejDK wanted to improve that.

Yes I am slowly getting back to work on OSS-Stuff.

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@TimLariviere it looks pretty much like chrome, don't you think?

[TimLariviere]

it looks pretty much like chrome, don't you think?

Hmm, indeed. There are some similarities to Chromium...

Maybe it feels less similar if I keep the orange circle, but with a slim swirl?

[dsyme]

I think these are great

[dsyme]

Can we get the logo on the home page ? https://fsprojects.github.io/Fabulous/

[Lleutch]

Hello everyone,
It seems that I might arrive a little bit too late to propose a design (though I am not a designer myself :D ).

I will however post the idea I had for the logo (inspired from redux), it's just a .png.
The intent here is not to change the decision that has already been taken with the current choice, I just wanted to share the idea that I have.

Thank you for your time

[dsyme]

That is a very nice logo!

[plombeer31]

2 ideas -
first is just old logo rework
second is a bit more creative (I love it)

[TimLariviere]

I've started to use Fornax to build a website for Fabulous.
Still super rough: https://fabulousfx.github.io/

[dsyme]

It's looking good as a first start

• The logo is not showing for me

• I always think the rule "do not make promises, show what's real today" is best. So remove "MAUI
  (Coming 2021)"

• The layout makes it feel a bit like a web technology. I think you need 3 or more visuals of desktop and mobile apps to say this this is an app technology