Create a nice icon for the NuGet package and the Gitter community

mariusmuntean / ChartJs.Blazor

Brings Chart.js charts to Blazor

https://www.iheartblazor.com/

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Create a nice icon for the NuGet package and the Gitter community #47

Open SeppPenner opened 4 years ago

SeppPenner commented 4 years ago

Describe the feature request

I guess, it would be cool to have a nice icon for the NuGet package (and the Gitter community). I would provide one on my own, but I'm actually not that good in such things 😕

mariusmuntean commented 4 years ago

Hmm, I'm not known for my good looking design either, but I can give it a shot. Anyone who has an idea for an icon can submit it to me!

For now I'm thinking something minimalistic, based on the Chart.js icon.

pekspro commented 4 years ago

I’m also not a designer. But I got an idea that I suggest here:

blazor-chartjs

It’s super rough, spend like 10 minutes or so to do this. More work is definitely necessary. But I think you get the idea. I haven’t convinced myself that this looks good :-) It is based on the original Blazor logo if that isn’t obvious.

pekspro commented 4 years ago

Just for fun I spend some more time with this and got the result below. I stole the colors from https://www.chartjs.org/ and https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community

blazor-chartjs-v2

mariusmuntean commented 4 years ago

I played around a bit and all I could produce looked awful. Basically I really like the lower left design and I tried to make the shape of the Blazor flame continue the curve of the teal pie chart slice.

I would be grateful if someone could help me out on this 😅

SeppPenner commented 4 years ago

I remember that there was some guy who did the logo / icon for https://github.com/chkr1011/MQTTnet. I have to search a bit, maybe he is available and can help us here.

I guess it was @mseyock : https://github.com/chkr1011/MQTTnet/commits?author=mseyock.

SeppPenner commented 4 years ago

@mseyock: Do you have some time to help us out with some icon / logo here?

ms-sk commented 4 years ago

Sure i could do it :). Just need information what you're exactly looking for.

mariusmuntean commented 4 years ago

hi @mseyock I was thinking about an icon that merges the Blazor icon and the ChartJs icon.

@pekspro came up with some designs which I really like. They take the general shape of the Blazor logo and merge it with a pie chart that uses ChartJs' color scheme. Personally, I like the one in the lower left corner the most but I'm open to other suggestions :D

Whatever logo we end up using, it should be in svg format. Based on that I want to generate icons for the repository, a NuGet icon, embed it into the samples of this project and so on.

pekspro commented 4 years ago

If it’s any useful, here is the SVG-file I’ve been working with:

blazor - chartjs2.zip

Joelius300 commented 4 years ago

Basically I really like the lower left design and I tried to make the shape of the Blazor flame continue the curve of the teal pie chart slice.

@mariusmuntean Did you mean something like this?

grafik

I like the top right the most but this is still very rough and I just kind of winged it with the curves (they're not as round as they should be). I also think it looks better without that lower "spike" but we should keep in mind that this "spike" is part of the original blazor logo.
Disclaimer: I'm not a designer or anything of the sort :)

Here's the SVG. It's a modified version of what @pekspro posted above. Just remove the .zip extension, it's not actually a zip, that's just for uploading.

ms-sk commented 4 years ago

As we currently have a direction going i decided to get make other design ideas over the weekend. Currently i just played a little bit with the colors and added some curves.

Idk if it fits better. I'm still working on it :)

g4221

mariusmuntean commented 4 years ago

@pekspro @Joelius300 @mseyock these are all nice designs and I would be happy with either one. I'm thinking of creating a poll where everyone who's interested can vote on the available designs and option with the most votes wins.

What do you think?

ms-sk commented 4 years ago

Sure. I'd still try to improve my version over the next few days though. If you can wait until Sunday :)

pekspro commented 4 years ago

That sounds totally fine by me :-)

ms-sk commented 4 years ago

i've created some more variants.

logos