kilobyte-svg-challenge

[denilsonsa]

Many years ago, I found (and contributed to) the https://github.com/johan/kilobyte-svg-challenge , a repository with the objective (or challenge) "Make an accurate SVG of a logo, in 1024 bytes or less!"

Today, I find your SuperTinyIcons repository, that seems to follow the same idea. I wonder if there is anything over there that could be imported over here. Or if a PR should be opened over there to make their README point to this repository.

[edent]

How interesting! I had no idea that existed. Feel free to see if there's anything which can be imported.

[denilsonsa]

Let's see… 27 logos:

• betterlinks.svg is a pretty and colorful logo, but their service is gone since 2012 or 2013.
• britely.svg is also gone since 2013.
• chrome.svg is the older gradient-shaded logo, instead of the modern flat-shaded
• cocacola.svg is missing here!
• coderwall.svg is missing here! It looks like their logos from their source-code on github. I wrote that logo from scratch, but now I see they have a SVG, and recently they changed the color for whatever reason.
• facebook.svg is their older branding.
• flickr.svg is slightly smaller, with transparent background, when compared to the one here. Not sure which one is better.
• github-octocat.svg is the fully-colored octocat mascot. This version is missing here.
• github-social-coding.svg is a boring logo full of text, probably obsolete.
• gits-sac-laughing-man.svg is missing here! It's an animated logo from Ghost In The Shell. It is exactly 1000 bytes.
• globen-ogonklinik.svg is a simple and nice-looking logo for what looks like an eye clinic. It's also certainly obsolete.
• googleplus.svg is slightly different from the version here. Either way, it's gone since 2019.
• groupon.svg seems to be an old version of their logo.
• hackhands.svg is a nice logo, but that platform shut down after being acquired by Pluralsight.
• html5.svg has the "HTML" text above the logo, when compared to the version here.
• ie.svg is a nice SVG version of the obsolete Internet Explorer browser. And it's probably not accurate to the official logo.
• ifttt.svg is the old logo until 2016 or so.
• ingress.svg is the logo for an online game that still exists. The modern logo is possibly different, but I don't know. It is missing here!
• lysator.svg is an academic computer club from Linköping, Sweden.
• opera.svg is the old logo for the Opera browser, when it still used the Presto engine. We have the newer logo here.
• pike.svg which is apparently from the Pike programming language. Amusingly, it has 6666 bytes.
• pirate-party-sweden.svg is exactly what it sounds like.
• roxen.svg is a nicely designed logo, but obsolete. And probably only relevant to Scandinavia.
• simple.svg is a nice logo for a defunct bank.
• simplymeasured.svg is a logo for a startup that was acquired by another company.
• twitter.svg is a smaller version of what we have in this repository. It's also reversed (blue bird on transparent background, instead of white bird on blue square). Not sure which one is more "correct".
• webplatform.svg is a logo for a project discontinued in 2015.

[denilsonsa]

Alternatively, in a table format:

File/logo on kilobyte-svg-challenge
betterlinks.svg	here	obsolete service
britely.svg	here	obsolete service
chrome.svg	here	obsolete logo
cocacola.svg	here
coderwall.svg	here
facebook.svg	here	obsolete logo
flickr.svg	here
github-octocat.svg	here
github-social-coding.svg	here	obsolete logo
gits-sac-laughing-man.svg	here
globen-ogonklinik.svg	here	obsolete service
googleplus.svg	here	obsolete service
groupon.svg	here	obsolete logo
hackhands.svg	here	obsolete service
html5.svg	here
ie.svg	here	obsolete service
ifttt.svg	here	obsolete logo
ingress.svg	here	obsolete logo (?)
lysator.svg	here
opera.svg	here	obsolete logo
pike.svg	here
pirate-party-sweden.svg	here
roxen.svg	here	obsolete logo
simple.svg	here	obsolete service
simplymeasured.svg	here	obsolete service
twitter.svg	here
webplatform.svg	here	obsolete service

I suggest you to take a look at the ones that are "not obsolete" and also the ones that have a version here. And then you can evaluate which ones are worth copying to this repository. It's about 11 of them.

[denilsonsa]

There are also three unmerged pull requests (all from me!):

PR there
Imgur	here
Stackoverflow	here
Telegram	here

[kuubeu]

So excluding obsolete services/logos and icons already here, we're left with these:

File on kilobyte-svg-challenge	Size	Website/app logo?
cocacola.svg	2.61 KB	no
coderwall.svg	286 Bytes	yes
github-octocat.svg	4.74 KB	no
gits-sac-laughing-man.svg	1000 Bytes	no
lysator.svg	1.71 KB	no
pike.svg	6.51 KB	no
pirate-party-sweden.svg	387 Bytes	no

Looks like the only logo meeting this repo's criteria is the Coderwall logo. I'll adapt it to meet the guidelines and close this issue. It's a very interesting project though!