Rebrand to Dissent
bertob opened this issue · 17 comments
I would be interested in seeing what we could come up with.
Some ideas we chatted about with GNOME folks at FOSDEM playing off of "discord," but turning it positive:
- Cordial
- Concord
- Concur
- Accord
Or if you wanted to keep the sort of negative of "discord":
- Dissent
- Quarrel
- Friction
- Chatter
I really like Cordial! It seems like it's used by an existing Discord bot for the name, but it should be fine.
Quarrel is also really good, but it is currently used by WinAppCommunity/Quarrel which is some abandoned Discord client for the Xbox?
Concord is another cool one, but it's already used by a Discord library in C99, Cogmasters/concord.
I really like Cordial! It seems like it's used by an existing Discord bot for the name, but it should be fine.
Yeah, probably fine since it's unlikely to be confused with the bot.
Alternatively I also like Dissent, it has the same initial as Discord and is similar in length and meaning.
Dissent also seems nice. There's no bot or client named that yet.
Cool, should we start looking into an icon for "Dissent"?
Cool, should we start looking into an icon for "Dissent"?
Yes!
Here's a first attempt:
How would the icon look like without the tiny buttons on top?
Not sure that works, ends up looking a bit empty at the top and bottom:
What are your specific concerns with the buttons? If it's just too many colors, we could also do something like this:
I do think the grey buttons look nicer for larger sizes, but the one without the buttons look a bit nicer for smaller sizes.
Would it be possible to also try the icon out with the purple of the current logo? Also, could you check the vertical alignment of the icon? I think it's a bit too low:
I do think the grey buttons look nicer for larger sizes, but the one without the buttons look a bit nicer for smaller sizes.
Icons should be optimized to look good at 64px first and foremost, 32px support is best-effort. That said, looking at this again I don't have a super strong opinion, the version with top buttons might be fine too.
Quickly tried the standard GNOME purple, but I think for a third party app like this a more custom color like the one from the original concepts would be nicer.
As for the vertical alignment, apps are not supposed to all be vertically centered, but rather be oriented on the baseline. For chat apps that's extra tricky since you have the point at the bottom. The current shape is what we ended up with as a compromise when doing the Fractal icon, and I reused that shape here.
Ah, that makes sense! The blue-with-grey-buttons icon looks nicest, then!
Would you want to create a PR with the new SVGs and PNGs? I can handle the rebranding of the name itself soon.
Ah, that makes sense! The blue-with-grey-buttons icon looks nicest, then!
That link doesn't seem to work here, but yeah I'd be happy to make a PR :)
Could we have a monochrome symbolic version of the icon? I want to try and make a loading screen similar to Tuba's:
Whoops, turns out we already have a symbolic icon o.o
Ah sorry, forgot to reply. Yeah, there's already a symbolic, but it's not recommended to use it on loading screens like Tuba did (I think it was already changed to just be a centered spinner without a symbolic).