Swag-for-dev: Does devSwag need a new logo?

[ardaald]

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I'm a design student, and i would like to contribute to the visual design and the logo of this project along with other the members of the community who are interested.

[SemperDisco]

I think a logo would be sweet! I would like to be part of the process and offer feedback when you have some designs.

[ardaald]

[vikaspotluri123]

Hey @ardaald do you want to create a PR to integrate it into the site?

@swapagarwal do you have any issues with the logo?

[swapagarwal]

Current:

Proposed:

Maybe elongate the smile curve a little bit to increase the swag level (see current).
@plibither8 can provide more feedback here.

[aslafy-z]

As it's a pretty simple logo, would be great to have a vectorised version of it, a SVG version.
Do someone known something about creating those?

[plibither8]

Hey @swapagarwal, a guy I know is working on a similar rendition of the proposed logo (I think). Let's wait and see what he's got?

[ardaald]

Hey @aslafy-z @vikaspotluri123 @swapagarwal here is the SVG version with a bigger smile! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lTtb36JiVELPAwiMpXIVe0vCPI3rJfmk

[SemperDisco]

@ardaald Could you make the edges I highlighted smoother? They look a bit dented now. Also could you make paths of the fonts so it always works?

[ardaald]

@SemperDisco There you go! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YVMMtSkJtBg3bhRApezwXiXIYRmj_-Vs

[aslafy-z]

It looks great! I think you should remove the text from the image so we can integrate it better where we want. Please reach @plibither8 about https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev/issues/200#issuecomment-444773929

[SemperDisco]

@ardaald Thank you! It looks better now.

[SemperDisco]

@ardaald @vikaspotluri123 @swapagarwal If you guys approve the logo, can I add it to the website?

[ardaald]

Here is the logo without the text, in any case the font was Rockwell! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mFxiac_nIFHUG2HdarRDhx2MniSV9ERB

[vikaspotluri123]

@SemperDisco only of @ardaald doesn't want to 😉

[SemperDisco]

@ardaald Do you want to implement the logo or can I do it? :)

[ardaald]

@SemperDisco i'm not very experienced on that, so go ahead! thank you.

[aslafy-z]

You can reduce the SVG size by using this website: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

[agarwalml]

Hey! I really like the work on the site and fell upon this thread.I created some renditions for the logo. Would appreciate some feedback.
P.S. I've uploaded a PNG of the logos, but I have SVGs ready.

[vikaspotluri123]

Just putting this out there, if we get a new logo, we should probably have a new icon too! There's no mutual exclusion here 😊

[plibither8]

Hey Vikas, how are we differentiating _logo_ and _icon_ here?

[vikaspotluri123]

icon = square, logo = rectangular

So wherever we need something square, we use the icon, and everywhere else we use the logo!

[agarwalml]

I agree. A logo needs to be responsive. The minimal ID can serve as a simple icon as well imo. Nothing too fancy

[SemperDisco]

@agarwalml I like the first one, it is pretty clean.

Maybe we can also make an option which combines the logo from @ardaald with one of @agarwalml logos.

Is it possible to host some sort of poll to vote on which logo to use?

[plibither8]

We can use Github reaction emojis to poll.

[agarwalml]

@SemperDisco though it sounds like a good idea, don't you think by combining both logos & having 2 sticker based logos next to each other would over-do the design?

[SemperDisco]

@agarwalml Maybe you are right. I'm no designer I was just throwing ideas out there.

@plibither8 We can use https://app.gh-polls.com/

[plibither8]

Sure, that seems like a possible way to do it. Go ahead and create it :smile:

[agarwalml]

Since no one commented, here you go:

P.S. This may be flawed as it's not restricted to one person one vote. So let's have it on an Honor basis. My logos are ordered as in the pic above (top to bottom)

[plibither8]

Pinging @swapagarwal

[SemperDisco]

@agarwalml Your entry named logo sticker 1 is probably the winner, I don't think the poll will change drastically from this point. Could you make a (fav)icon of the logo?

[SemperDisco]

@agarwalml Could you also add the svg?

[agarwalml]

Attached the logo. I'm guessing the favicon can be the ID card icon?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jns5Z79fd90ooUEid-MQqe0sIgmDw5EK/view?usp=sharing

Note: The Google preview of the SVG is jumbled up, so it needs to be downloaded to view properly

[agarwalml]

Sharing the ID card logo as a favicon
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J3Y3RP2oznG9TwSsECHwbI9J6fqzsyEp/view?usp=sharing

[SemperDisco]

Yes, that is okay. Thank you for providing the assets.

[swapagarwal]

@agarwalml Awesome! Let's get this integrated.

[SemperDisco]

@swapagarwal I'm working on it! ;)

[agarwalml]

Guys, any updates?

[aslafy-z]

It's live at https://devswag.io! Thank you @agarwalml @ardaald for your work into this.