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Pelican-Elegant / elegant

Best theme for Pelican Static Blog Generator
https://elegant.oncrashreboot.com/
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Find a logo for the github organization representing elegant #190

Closed iranzo closed 5 years ago

iranzo commented 5 years ago

Define a logo for the repository :-)

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Hehe, I’d suggest a pelican with a monocle, perhaps drinking tea ;)

iranzo commented 5 years ago

https://www.deviantart.com/isil22/art/Pelican-329982574

talha131 commented 5 years ago

Or a pelican with bow tie 😆 That's what I always had in mind of the theme.

Anyway, whatever you guys decide. Great initiative! 👍

silverhook commented 5 years ago

https://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Fliege._128421

iranzo commented 5 years ago

Is anyone up to drawing a new one so that we don't have issues with rights and propose it ?

iranzo commented 5 years ago

pelican + bow tie + monocle would be perfect :-)

silverhook commented 5 years ago

I don’t think this is a blocker for any release really. So we can wait and see if anyone in our wider community is talented artist in this regard.

If it comes to rights management, I’m happy to help there :)

iranzo commented 5 years ago

Team that could have a look from my side asked me to 'ping them' in october as they are pretty busy right now, it's on my calendar to ask them again

talha131 commented 5 years ago

You see the Pelican logo? I was thinking if they allow it, then we can

  1. color it black
  2. Append E in cursive or some better font to it

So we will end up with PE like thing.

It will be an alteration of Pelican login. It would make sense for its theme logo to be based it.

It's pretty simple but it depends if Pelican team will allow us to use and modify their logo.

There an open question from @silverhook that hasn't been answered yet.

Or we pick an image from deviant art or other free image source which has a license that we can use.

azzamsa commented 5 years ago

For note. There are also graphic designer that look for a project that need a logo, it's a win-win effort. We get a logo, they get a point to put in their cv. Some of them:

https://github.com/expectocode/telegram-export/issues/49
https://github.com/kennethreitz/saythanks.io/issues/42
https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/5452
talha131 commented 5 years ago

There are also graphic designer that look for a project that need a logo, it's a win-win effort.

Right. And that's what we are waiting for someone to offer their service.

I don't have high hopes of for it though. We are one of the most popular Pelican theme, if not the most popular, but still our traffic is not that big to attract some budding talent.

I have been thinking of picking an image from dribble or deviantart and modify it, provided its license allows us to. Or just use the image without modification. For example,

  1. https://dribbble.com/shots/6067561-Pelican
  2. https://dribbble.com/shots/6174321-Pelican-logo
  3. https://dribbble.com/shots/5998621-Pelican-Globe-Speed-logo-for-ATG-International

Or buy $2-5 image from some website. Like

  1. https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=pelican&price=free
  2. https://www.flaticon.com/search?word=pelican

Or (and I am leaning strongly towards it), why pigeon hole ourselves to Pelican. We can pick any other good looking logo and use it. For example,

  1. https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/343126/elegant_glasses_like_a_sir_mustage_rich_sir_smiley_smiley_face_icon
  2. https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/4743073/bow_bowtie_hair_ribbon_suit_icon
  3. https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/tie_204331#term=elegant&page=1&position=15

Moving Forward

I really like following images and think we can pick one from it. You all must check them out

  1. https://www.visualpharm.com/free-icons/set/pelican
  2. https://www.visualpharm.com/free-icons/set/necktie
  3. https://www.visualpharm.com/free-icons/set/best%20seller
  4. https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/tie_204331#term=elegant&page=1&position=15

Or we pick a logo from here

http://logodust.com/

I think we can go forward with this one with color adjustments if necessary and it its license allows it

tie

azzamsa commented 5 years ago

https://dribbble.com/shots/6174321-Pelican-logo

This is awesome :)

silverhook commented 5 years ago

https://dribbble.com/shots/6174321-Pelican-logo

This is awesome :)

I like this one as well. Especially if we can ask the guy to put a tie on it :D

talha131 commented 5 years ago

I am thinking of taking the head and beak of Pelican from here https://dribbble.com/shots/6174321-Pelican-logo and then putting it on top of tie from here

But then I found this image.

It's perfect. But

  1. I don't understand their license. They say royalty free but when I try to download it redirects me to their payment page
  2. We will still have to color its beak
  3. I think their big "free download" button and royalty free banner is just to entice visitors. They do require payment

pelican-top-hat-monocle-vector-illustration-85482111

talha131 commented 5 years ago

Especially if we can ask the guy to put a tie on it :D

Instead of asking,

  1. See if its license allows modification
  2. If it does then we can do it ourselves
silverhook commented 5 years ago

Especially if we can ask the guy to put a tie on it :D

Instead of asking,

1. See if its license allows modification

2. If it does then we can do it ourselves

At a quick look, it doesn’t seem there is any license attached at all, apart from Dribble’s ToS, which aren’t super helpful in this regard. I would assume we would need to obtain a license directly from the author …which comes back to asking him.

talha131 commented 5 years ago

I like this image a lot but the website's sketchy practice of bait and switch left a bad taste in my mouth. And I don't feel like ordering anything from them.

We can go with Photoshoping tie on dribble pelican ourselves. Though I am not confident about the result. And also it seems it would be too much work for a result that would be at best an amateur effort.

I suggest we pick one logo from here https://logodust.com/. It seems to be the path of least effort.

talha131 commented 5 years ago

OR we pick an image of a butterfly. There are plenty of them in different styles available for use online.

Why a butterfly? Because they are nature's elegant creature.

In any case, lets reach a consensus in 1-2 weeks and close this issue down.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=pelican

https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=elegant

I specifically like:

talha131 commented 5 years ago

If we select a monochromatic icon, then we will have to

  1. Decide colors to fill in
  2. Slap "Elegant" on it

This will involve more back and forth.

I am not against the idea but I do think our energy is better spent in other tasks. That's why I think we should take a shortcut. To me the best shortcut is to pick a butterfly colored image and slap Elegant on it.

Or someone should take up this task and then share the few final results here. This will be much more efficient.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

I see no reason why it needs more colours than one or two.

And if it is a icon-like image, we can include it by default as the favicon as well :)

silverhook commented 5 years ago

E.g. if you tilt the elegant feather a bit, it looks like a feather pen for writing, which is suitable, as a 1 pelicans have feathers; and 2 the project name “Pelican” is (officially!) an anagram from “calepin”, which is French for a notebook, and as we know you write with pens into a notebook.

Screenshot_20190717_155908

Regarding the colours, the easy way out would be to try to re-use one of the accent colours we use in the Pelican Elegant theme already. In the quick example above I simply took a colour that I thought resembles ink.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Here’s a similar outcome, if we take the pelican, encircle him and use the colour that we use for main headers.

Screenshot_20190717_160958

talha131 commented 5 years ago

Both looks great. A rounded box would be better than a circle.

@silverhook can you color the feather icon with the same red color for preview?

And place them inside rounded corner square for preview.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

I was merely playing with the website they reside on, so there is no option to have an empty rounded-corner square. If we really want to have an empty rounded-corner square, I can whip out Inkscape again and see if I can get it done.

I’ll post the two images separately, so we can have a vote, if desired.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Screenshot_20190717_170722

The interface unfortunately does not offer an empty rounded-corner square, so I generated a full one with the #f5f5f5 colour, which I picked from the top link bar as a middle colour.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Screenshot_20190717_171004

As requested, the feather pen in the Elegant red.

talha131 commented 5 years ago

Thank you @silverhook I like this one better

talha131 commented 5 years ago

I meant between feather and pelican, pelican wins by a huge margin. We can tweak the border later or add colors to beak and feet etc, later.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Personally, I like the feather better, but pelican works for me as well. Yeah, it should be easy to modify and the license is CC-BY, so all good, as long as we state where we got it from and who’s the original author :)

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

If I can jump in here for a bit... has anyone tried reducing the proposed logos to their favicon sizes and post how they look at that resolution?

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Not really, no. That was more of a brainfart of mine. Do you have any experience with that, @jackdewinter ?

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

image

That would be a start. honestly, just trimmed it down a lot and then resized it

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

From talking to a friend, it is considered acceptable to have a large image be different than the favicon, but not too much. I.e. can you see how that is a smaller version of the bigger file?

talha131 commented 5 years ago

Your feedback about this image? This is a rough draft.

logo1

Here is how it look at smaller sizes

apple-touch-icon-76x76

apple-touch-icon-180x180

Todo

It needs improvements, like

  1. Fill areas have slight white spaces
  2. Square dimensions
  3. Remove white area outside the border

Should I proceed with it?

  1. Is the logo fine?
  2. Colors selection is ok?

I am not looking for 100% perfection. If on scale of 0 to 10, you feel 5 about it, it's good enough for me. (Whatever it takes to close this long standing issue).

I will fix the todo items once I get a consensus for one or two active users.

Good thing is that this an SVG image. I didn't had to touch Photoshop.

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

From what I checked online, we need a 16x16 and a 32x32 for favicon. Can you show us one at that resolution?

talha131 commented 5 years ago

apple-touch-icon-57x57

we need a 16x16 and a 32x32 for favicon

Seems old standard. I have been using https://iconifier.net/ for all these years. The minimum it generates is 57x57.

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

I agree, and I did find a number of sites that supported 144x144. Most of the favicon specific sites, like this one https://convertico.com/favicon/ only support 16x16 and 32x32.

talha131 commented 5 years ago

So you are Ok with the submission?

jackdewinter commented 5 years ago

Yup... looks like a pelican wearing a black format jacket.