2024-08-22 20:57 UTC
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@grishka@friends.grishka.me 2024-08-22 21:35
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social, idk, I'm kinda torn between this and the Meta one. In my mind, Meta's doesn't mean "centralized", it rather means that the bigger planet is your home server and the other ones orbit it. Mastodon and PeerTube introductory videos also make use of the planet metaphor to explain decentralization. As well as Threads, in the explainer when you turn on fediverse sharing. But then a cluster of three asterisks, or stars, can also mean a constellation (of servers), so it also works. The pentagram symbol doesn't work as is. But I'm also sure it can be drawn as pixel art at 16x16 to be legible. Naive downscaling rarely produces good results at these sizes. As an example, here's the Smithereen 16x16 favicon I drew pixel by pixel at that size:
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@grishka@friends.grishka.me 2024-08-22 22:54
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social, ok so I've redrawn all three icons at 16x16, mostly quantized to the pixel grid. The top center asterisk is annoying because it has to be offset by half-pixel horizontally for the icon to be centered in its frame. The pentagram is somewhat more readable like this, but still something of a colorful pixel jumble. And to no one's surprise, the Meta's icon wins because it's so simple geometrically.
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@chris@im.allmendenetz.de 2024-08-23 06:06
The pentagram represents the Fedi idea well but form the graphic standpoint it is right that we need an other symbol. The tree asterisk are an option - but look a bit like snowflakes... if we use tree of them than we have to make sure to show not one on top over an other... so the suggested icon would need to get turned a bit - like this: But actually i think it is not about - "Written in the stars" - but all about come "Down to earth"... so tree blooming flowers would even fit better :-) @@FediverseSymbol@typo.social @@liaizon@social.wake.st