We hope this logo will look more friendly to people ๐
Thanks again to @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org for their great work!
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Looks good to me!
Reminds me of hive! I love it.
I like it! Unfortunately i did just afew days ago make a homemade sticker for my backpack based on the old logo, I guess Iโll have to update it :)
Buzz buzz!
I get that it aligns the imagery more with the whole aesthetic but I canโt help but be bummed for the little outgoing bee rustler. I really liked her
I didnโt even realize it had a cowboy hat. But now thatโs its pointed out I get it.
There will always be groups of people who prefer the old and new. With more cohesive branding with our community logos and eventually a lemmy theme, Iโm hoping we can rotate logos semi-regularly as a way to represent the diversity of our website and to help support amazing local artists.
But thatโs just my thoughts on it, in this case it was a logo commissioned for a specific purpose (app icon), and we wanted to align with that and celebrate new and great art (as well as continue to support the artist whoโs helped us with all our community icons!)
There are a few examples that come to mind of rotating brand elements, both large and small, that make me think thereโs a lot of potential to give a place and community some flavor and fun. I get the vibe youโre already on board with this kind of thing, but for the sake of putting it on record and giving everyone else a sense of whatโs possible, I think itโd be cool to give a sense of the kind of things we can do in the future. Admittedly Iโm 99% sure that these ideas are impractical, if not impossible, with Lemmyโs current UI abilities. Still, I think it may be good for the community to keep stuff like this in the backburner in case the potential opens up. This is spit balling, admittedly. Hopefully spit balling weโll be able to act on eventually, though.
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I remember Apollo for Reddit had a massive library of app icons that users could independently choose from. There was what I would call the primary mark and a few color or smaller derivatives of that, but there were also some wildly different ideas that were loosely tied to one another. Some were closely aligned with the original Apollo, others were barely connected to that visual identity. Either way, Chris got a lot of artists involved in the app icons aspect to Apollo. I forgot if they were commissioned or if it was some part of a community volunteering bit, but it was a cool way to add another touch of customizing and involvement to the app.
Newgrounds is an example that I think goes even farther than Apollo. There are visual elements that remain consistent, like the logo, logotype, and site iconography. But every so often (IIRC, something like once a month or once a season,) theyโll bring in a community member to change up most of the siteโs color scheme and the siteโs padding graphics. I canโt seem to get the Wayback Machine to load a good capture on my end, so I went ahead and took a screenshot for archrivalโs sake.
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Iโm leaning toward saying that the new logo is an improvement, design wise. Digital icons, let alone content like tab icons, will always require some sacrifices in detail in order to be legible. This logo still has some legibility loss in smaller sizes (although Iโll admit asking for that not to happen is a mighty tall order,) but Iโm tempted to argue that it maintains its legibility better than the Bee Rustler. Mentioning visual unity with the community icons series is something Iโd say is a plus, but if seasonal or community variants to the site logo is something thatโs explored later, it makes that point not quite as meaningful.
Bee Rustler was a cute lilโ thing and I loved her as much as anyone else, but admittedly Iโm not so sure her graphic was a good fit for a logo. Chances are, however, that this is the kind of thing that would be most completely resolved with a comprehensive brand set that can accommodate community flavoring in aspects of it when the time comes. Iโd think thatโs getting well into long-term territory, however.
Issues aside with Bee Rustler being a catch-all logo solution, I doubt that Bee Rustler is going away entirely any time soon. Mascots, and more broadly the sense of characters within a community, have a way of maintaining staying power. Thereโs going to be means and ways for Bee Rustler to show herself and still be part of the community lore, whether thatโs officially or through the user base. Like Iโve still gotta see the Bug Crusher through before I throw the towel, and I donโt think thatโs gonโ be the end of it from me or anyone else either ๐ค .
I doubt that Bee Rustler is going away entirely any time soon. Mascots
Has it been made into a plushie yet? Just asking ๐
(BTW, TIL bee rustling is an actual IRL crime)
Iโm sure thereโs a place where she could still workโฆ like maybe the 404 page or the maintenance page?
All across Lemmy, Iโve noticed that users who donโt set profile pictures have a cute little mouse picture. Iโm wondering if we could do something similar, where if you made your account on Beehaw and you didnโt set a profile picture, you get a cute little bee. Perhaps the bee that was just removed.
On iOS, the maintenance page has some black text completely swallowed up by the very dark brown tree, so Iโm definitely up for that being replaced.