The elixir-ls project needs a logo :)

[ghuntley]

Howdy folks,

I'm doing some marketing activities for https://gitpod.io/ and I would like to feature the elixir-ls project at an upcoming conference organised by https://github.com/gitpod-io.

question: does the project have a logo?
ask: can you please provide a logo in the next couple of days?

[axelson]

Hi! This project currently doesn't have a logo. I could start looking into a logo, but it is very unlikely that it would be ready in the next couple of days.

[ghuntley]

👍 elixir-ls isn't the only project without a logo so I might need to take a different design approach of using the programming language logo instead.

[lukaszsamson]

We can ask the community on elixirforum

[easbarba]

There are some repos dedicated to provide logo for open source projects, I can't find those anymore, but gladly I found this one:

http://openlogos.org

[DaniruKun]

Was thinking the same, I can ask our graphics designer this week if they have some time to make a couple variations.

[c-alpha]

Some little bits of type-art that crossed my mind reading this issue:

call it "existentialism"

Munich'72 style

[Nezteb]

I was bored and randomly decided to see what I could get DALL-E to create as inspiration:

[jaminthorns]

Here's my contribution! It's a pretty straightforward design, but I think it would work well as a project and extension icon. I used Asap for the text font, since that seems to be what the official Elixir logo uses. I have the source SVG, so we can make tweaks or scale to whatever size is needed if we decide we want to use this.

Logo (No Text)

Logo (Right Text, Light Background)

Logo (Bottom Text, Light Background)

Logo (Right Text, Dark Background)

Logo (Bottom Text, Dark Background)

[tessi]

I'm not an artist of any kind, so bear with me. But what about using a pipette as the logo? Pipettes are a tool to work with drops of elixir, which the Elixir logo is :)

Something like

(taken from a random internet search) but with an Elixir-drop like so

(and possibly colouring the rest of the liquid sitting on the pipette in purple too)

I'm not too sure, because this goes against the trend of having heavy simplified logos that the industry is currently going through. But I'm sure someone more talented than me can further abstract the idea into a simplified svg-ized form :)

[benvp]

Here are my DALL·E cents.

[lukaszsamson]

Nice @benvp. I especially like the second one

[benvp]

I like that one here, too:

[c-alpha]

I think I like @jaminthorns best, since they seem simple enough to provide both, easy recognition (little brain processing needed, so recognition will be quick), and good recognition at all scales (no tiny features to be lost at small sizes). The gears inside the purple Elixir drop to me signal that there is more than just the language.

[Kirlovon]

Hi guys, I also tried my hand at working on a logo! I stayed close to the original logo by adding outline and gradients. It should also look good on both light and dark backgrounds.

Feel free to give some feedback! I can provide sources if needed! 😀

[lukaszsamson]

For now I merged @Kirlovon PR. It's much better than the previous one but still it's too close tho the original elixir logo. I'll repeat myself - I liked the ones from #517 (comment)