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Central repository to collect community feature requests and improvements. The CWA development ends on May 31, 2023. You still can warn other users until April 30, 2023. More information:
https://coronawarn.app/en/faq/#ramp_down
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Improve logo / app icon design #78

Open moritzebeling opened 4 years ago

moritzebeling commented 4 years ago

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The logo or app icon looks weird to me. The gradient is a bit pixelated. Very sharp razor blade shape, I would be afraid to cut myself if I would touch the logo. Looks very technical, like a brake disc, no organic shape like a virus cell might look like. And the colors look like they were converted from CMYK color mode, a bit pale. The very thin shadow suggests that the logo must be gigantic in real size but: the shadow is on top of the shape, which means we are looking at it from above. Or as if the logo would tip over towards the visitor.

On my phones homescreen, the logo sticks out immediately, but not in a good way. In total I think the logo looks very old fashioned, unprofessional, non-digital, low quality and not very 2020-high-tech-virus-defense-ish at all. Since we’re all having this thing on our homescreens for the next months, it would be nice, if it would be a little more beautiful.

But yet I like the concept, that the C grabs around the virus to catch it, so I would keep that.

Also I think a logo redesign should not differ too much from the original, because unfortunately there is already so much marketing material out there featuring the current "old" logo. I will suggest some redesigns here, starting with just a very subtle retouch. If others have design suggestions, feel free to share as comment :)

SVG, PNG and all other formats in best quality can be provided upon request. Hope you like it. If appreciated, I offer my help to assist in the redesign process.

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Internal Tracking id: EXPOSUREAPP-2117

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jlnprssnr commented 4 years ago

Keep in mind that it should be recognizable as a 'C' on first glance.

moritzebeling commented 4 years ago

Collection of some other design related issues, to get an overview of related activity:

i-am-the-slime commented 3 years ago

Why isn't this being merged? The current logo is hurting the app. I had not installed it for a few weeks because of it.

Ein-Tim commented 3 years ago

Disclaimer: I'm neither a developer nor a community manager.

@i-am-the-slime

First of all this isn't a Pull Request so the actual change would still have to be coded. Second, it's really hard to change the logo of an app with that scope after it's release. You would have to update all the websites, alle the adverts, all the flyers, just everything with the logo on it.

And third, this repo is only the wishlist, what means that here the community can open issues where thy can say what they want to get part of the app. But at the end, neither the developers nor SAP decides what gets implemented. The decisions are made by the RKI/BMG, and this can take a while. We also don't know the exact status of each request here, so we can't even tell wether somebody from RKI/BMG ever heared of this proposal.

achisto commented 3 years ago

Why isn't this being merged? The current logo is hurting the app. I had not installed it for a few weeks because of it.

In this case you could try and change the icon for your installed app - there are easy ways on both android and iOS to achieve that without loosing functionality.

moritzebeling commented 3 years ago

I recommend to move the app to the second screen of a subfolder, so you won’t ever have to see it

i-am-the-slime commented 3 years ago

@Ein-Tim Thanks for clearing this up. I guess it's too late now with all the existing CI. It's like one of these radio ads that are really annoying: It's intentionally bad but at least it gets you to talk about it.

@achisto I'll look into that

@moritzebeling That's of course what I did. B002F032-BE13-416E-8F6C-D100BBFEA5AE

crlosmen commented 3 years ago

Bien

crlosmen commented 3 years ago

Excelente