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Icon request: OpenStreetMap (OSM) #129

Open Changaco opened 6 years ago

Changaco commented 6 years ago

Icon

OpenStreetMap doesn't appear to have an official black-and-white icon, but there are a few b&w logos in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Logos that could be further simplified to be used as icons:

Name Suggestion

openstreetmap

Use Case

In Liberapay we could use it to show that a connected account is an openstreetmap.org account, the same way we use the GitHub icon, the Mastodon icon, etc. In other projects an OSM icon might be useful as an alternative to the map and map-o icons, to represent a map based on OSM.

To be honest I'm not sure if adding an OSM icon is a good idea or not, but now that I've finished writing it down I might as well submit it…

MiWCryptoCurrency commented 5 years ago

I recreated the osm logo; interested in feedback, if it should be modified:

Its currently 14361 bytes, which would make it the largest icon compare: 4773 debian.svg 10552 scuttlebutt.svg 11649 signalapp.svg

Should there be a maximum size per icon to keep library size manageable?

https://github.com/MiWCryptoCurrency/Fork-Awesome/commit/4dd0a381d5aefa98332da76ce6c7edb677e55a99

Changaco commented 5 years ago

That logo is too complex. An icon needs to be recognizable when scaled down to 16px.

MiWCryptoCurrency commented 5 years ago

The preview looks like this. Any recommendations? Maybe the outline should be thicker for smaller rez?

osm

xuv commented 5 years ago

@Changaco Considering that the official logo is this one: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Public-images-osm_logo.svg, I find @MiWCryptoCurrency very close to that original but turned into B&W.

Indeed, at small sizes, it is hard to recognize it. But this is more an OSM branding problem. It's not Fork Awesome mission to solve that for brands. We can discuss here the design of general purpose icons, but I'd refer everyone to the OSM forums or mailing-lists to get official approval for a simpler icon for OSM.

I tend to not include anything in FA under a brand name if it does not properly represent the brand according to its guidelines. But, OSM being such an important project, I can recognize the need for something. Though, I'd explicitly name the icon then osm-non-official or something of that nature.