So I didn’t like the current icon (with all due respect to @Beegee_23@lemmygrad.ml), and with their permission I remade it in my vision.

(imgur link: https://i.imgur.com/VwJISj5.png)

The tank is a Chinese Type 96A, the laurel and star are from the USSR (though I haven’t been able to find it outside of stock pngs and tshirt stores, the laurel has been used as a symbol by many communist parties). The colours are lifted straight from the USSR flag. The font unfortunately is not specifically communist because I couldn’t find what I was looking for.

Also I made sure it’s large enough by default to be used in different ways. Not high res enough to print it, but enough for web use. You can see all the aliasing issues when you use the hi-res version but unfortunately that’s what grabbing random pngs online does. I didn’t have the patience to clean those up lol. The font bothers me a bit personally, the laurel is so big that I didn’t really have much space left for the URL. (edit: yeah so that little text really bothers me, I may end up redoing it tomorrow or smth)

But in general I tried to clean it up from the previous version and tidy it up a bit.

If it’s alright with everyone I would like to submit this reworked logo as lemmygrad’s official icon.

  • lemmygrabber
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    4 years ago

    I like it. Only gripe would be to remove the ‘www.’ because I don’t think it is part of the domain.

    • @CriticalResist8OPA
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      64 years ago

      Hmm, you’re right. www.lemmygrad.ml doesn’t actually work.

      I’m not a fan of typing out https://lemmygrad.ml because of the special characters, and lemmygrad.ml feels too empty, like it’s missing a component (it also needs to be easily understood that it’s a URL if people start sharing this logo).

      @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml is it possible to redirect www.lemmygrad.ml so that the url on the logo works? If not I’ll find a solution for the logo.

      • Muad'DibberMA
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        24 years ago

        Hrm I’ll see if I can add this.

          • Muad'DibberMA
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            4 years ago

            Yeah the DNS probably hasn’t propagated to you yet.

            edit: oh wait no its not dns. I’d just refresh the page, my browser had the broken one cached too.

            • @CriticalResist8OPA
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              24 years ago

              oh yep, probably cache. The one thing I never suspect lol.

              Thanks again!

  • Muad'DibberMA
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    74 years ago

    I’m a fan. If enough ppl like this one better lets put it as the site icon, and on the sidebar too.

  • @Togooroo
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    64 years ago

    I think it looks a lot better than the current one! Good job comrade!!

  • @blobjim
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    44 years ago

    You could probably turn it into an SVG file using Inkscape’s automatic tools.

    • @CriticalResist8OPA
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      54 years ago

      Automated tools can really be hit or miss. If there’s interest in it, I’ll probably just retrace it by hand in Illustrator.

  • @TeethOrCoat
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    34 years ago

    Why was it even a mouse in the first place?

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      34 years ago

      This site runs on lemmy, and I only added customizeable site icons recently.