Post by @ety@hive.institute

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G

@ety@hive.institute 3 mo. ago

Messing around today trying to make a #freestreamers icon.

Strongly based off of @eudaimon 's Fedigram.

* Radiating waves from an internal well-connected node representing a broadcast from somewhere within fedi.

* The waves hit some other nodes on fedi, but 'escape' to the outside world, too.

* The waves are red to match the source of the broadcast, but is also the color often associated with being 'on-air.'

* Logo tilted upwards, like a terrestrial satellite dish.

Boost for feedback? ❤️

#freestreamers

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repeatro

@repeatro@mastodon.social 3 mo. ago

@ety

Really cool

The Synduckate

@synduckate@lgbtqia.space 3 mo. ago

@ety

That is super cool. I love the story of what it is conveying.

Is this aiming to be a favicon type thing, or will there be iterations? I think a gradient on the waves and the nodal connections would be neat for a larger work, while this *simpler* color model works well for smaller formats.

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G

@ety@hive.institute 3 mo. ago

@synduckate

Unclear 😅. The reality is that I'm a better visual storyteller than a graphic designer.

The original logo was already *so good* and I just wanted something simple to collectively represent fedi-originated/adjacent streaming/broadcast.

It didn't occur to me until @ozoned mentioned it, but it doesn't even strictly need to convey a video-type broadcast. RSS loosely fits the same design language and has similar relationships with Fedi.

ozoned

@ozoned 3 mo. ago

@ety@hive.institute @synduckate@lgbtqia.space love to see something like that overtake standard RSS. Click it and get RSS or Fedi. 😁

wordsmith‽ ⁂

@wordsmith@writing.exchange 3 mo. ago

@ety this is gorgeous!

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G

@ety@hive.institute 3 mo. ago

@wordsmith Thanks so much! (Also, thought I was following you already, but fixed now 😁)

jan Wilejan

@janWilejan@snug.moe 3 mo. ago

@ety@hive.institute @eudaimon@fe.disroot.org looks excellent! so pretty

my feedback: make the waves the same width as the graph edges; likewise increase the spacing between waves; remove one of the wave lines.

and maybe the wave lines don't have to touch so close to the fedi graph? the wave line that meets at a corner looks weird

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G

@ety@hive.institute 3 mo. ago

@janWilejan I waffled *a lot* on the thickness and count of the radiating waves.

It was actually originally mocked up with lines of the same width as the rest of the graph and it just didn't rest well with my eyes.

The other thing I'm trying to keep in mind is image balance; the fourth wave was added and pushed to where it was to keep the image at a *roughly* 1:1 aspect ratio.

Agreed, though, that more spacing and 3 waves would probably be better. Thanks for validating that thought. ❤️