More representative logo

[temeddix]

Currently, the logo is only a telephone between a Rust crab and Flutter bird. Wouldn't it be nice to have an official logo like this?

Disclaimer: This was drawn by midjourney AI

[fzyzcjy]

That's interesting! But IMHO the original logo is also not ugly ;)

[2bndy5]

I landed here because the current logo doesn't play well with dark theme since the background was removed c1ca05d

Personally, I think the telephone image may be too antiquated in technological terms. I thought a Venn diagram would be more applicable:

The green line that connects the intersection with the "Bridge" label is supposed to separate the "Flutter" and "Rust" labels, but the word "Flutter" is a bit long when using the same font (Roboto Mono) size as the rest of the labels.

This more compact design would better serve as a favicon in the docs as well:

I'm not too confident about using the green color (#049603). Its just a distinguishable (hue) midpoint between the orange (#f74c00) and the blue (#045b9f). The intention was to pick colors that conformed with the flutter and rust branding while allowing a transparent background to work with either light or dark themes.

Tip

You can opt-in to GitHub's Command palette to quickly switch the site's theme on demand. This allows to see how the above logo displays in either light or dark themes.

Here's my WIP GIMP file I used to create the above images: FRB_logo.zip

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And now for the legalese

• Flutter's branding policy
• Flutter's official logo assets
• Rust foundation's branding policy
• I think the rust-lang.org website's logo resources would be the preferred/updated resource of rust logo assets.

[fzyzcjy]

That looks also interesting! However, I guess the original image may not be very ugly :)

[2bndy5]

No one in this thread is calling the current logo ugly. That wouldn't be "constructive" (referring to a general code of conduct).

I'm simply suggesting an alternative that works with both light and dark theme.

Again, I think the telephone idea (in both OP and current logo) is an aging concept. And the fact that the current logo uses a black telephone with a black cable... well it looks like this in dark theme:

[patmuk]

No one in this thread is calling the current logo ugly. That wouldn't be "constructive" (referring to a general code of conduct).

I'm simply suggesting an alternative that works with both light and dark theme.

Again, I think the telephone idea (in both OP and current logo) is an aging concept. And the fact that the current logo uses a black telephone with a black cable... well it looks like this in dark theme:

why not tweaking the original logo? Having another color for the telephone - maybe that matrix-ish green.

[2bndy5]

why not tweaking the original logo?

Because I wanted something that could also be down-scaled to a favicon. Currently, the docs just use a blue dot:

Having another color for the telephone

As I mentioned twice before, the telephone (picture of a land-line handset) is an aging technology. IMHO, it does not suite this project which uses technology that only recently has turned 10 years old.

[2bndy5]

Disclaimer: This was drawn by midjourney AI

@temeddix We should be careful when using AI to generate images for branding. Currently, most of the AI tools available to us do/may not respect copyright or trademark laws. While this isn't the end-users' problem, it could mean an unforeseen legal action taken against end-users in the future.