Edit: I posted the first release of my theme based on the ideas in this post here!
Hi everyone!
I’m an Industrial/Product Designer in my professional life, and I was so inspired by @UrLogicFails’s fantastic new community icons that I wanted to try out some of my own design ideas for Beehaw.
First, I tried my hand at an icon for Beehaw. I’m endeared to the little pixelated bee-cowboy we have now, but my background is in cleaner, more minimal designs that are easy to deploy to lots of different devices. A good logo sets a good first impression, and I want new users to see Beehaw as a real, legitimate alternative vision for social media. I’ve tried to recreate the back of a bee, and used the wings to form a subtle letter “B.” My personal favorite is the hexagon bestagon, but I have both iOS and Android variations. Icon design is always really contentious, but it’s also really fun - I’d love to see other people’s ideas!
Second, I took a stab at tweaking the design of Beehaw, with the goals improving the layout and padding, introducing a more consistent color scheme, increasing legibility, and (of course) incorporating more bee elements. I’m working on a CSS theme that incorporates some of these changes, but others are beyond the scope of CSS injections and will require actual work on Lemmy-UI.
Light Theme:
Dark Theme:
I’d love to hear your thoughts, and I’m happy to share more if people are interested :)
Thanks for viewing, take care!
No offense to you personally, but I really don’t like that kind of logo design. I feel it lacks personality and uniqueness. I’ve seen an awful lot of companies redo their logos along those lines and they were almost invariably worse than the original. This trend needs to stop.
Using hexagonal shapes and yellows for UI elements is certainly fitting, though.
Yeah, I feel like it is trendy and would get lost amongst the sea of similar designs. So I think it fits with what OP was looking for, making it look “professional” and by extention legitimate. However I don’t really think that’s what is best. I like the little bee and his little hat. He’s friendly. This looks too corporate for my taste.
I would like to be very clear I think it looks great! It achieves what OP stated they were going for. It looks professional. I just think professional is a bit bland and not a change I’d be very enthused about. Perhaps I am in the minority however. It’s not like I would fight a change to this if it was decided this would be what is best for beehaw.