Riffol’s symbol, logo, mascot

[strogonoff]

• To represent Riffol on its Ribose Open Project site, a logo would be nice to have.
• The part of logo that requires creative effort is symbol. The symbol should be in vector format, square. Expect it to be shown on the open project site in sizes from around 30x30 to around 60x60px (roughly 0.3 to 0.6 inch real world).
• Strategically a project mascot is good to have as it makes it more straightforward to later create representations and variations for other circumstances, preserving conceptual consistency regardless of visual style.
• Salmon, roe, riffle, rust are the keywords (no need to represent all at once).

[strogonoff]

@drystone, @ronaldtse unless a symbol for Riffol already exists or Ricardo is currently actively working on one, I’d like to take care of this and source a vector from a friendly artist—is that OK?

[strogonoff]

haha just realized I can’t assign an issue to myself on this project 😅

[drystone]

@strogonoff sounds good to me :-) Spawn and stream are also good words ...

[strogonoff]

Awesome! Yeah those too, decided to pack all that into “riffle” :)

[ronaldtse]

@strogonoff Ricardo hasn't started working on it, but sure feel free to propose a vector 😉

[strogonoff]

Got it, if there’s an arrangement with Ricardo about Riffol logo then we can leave my idea for another project that’ll become part of Ribose Open in future.

I’d note that unless we are positively 100% sure that one person can work on all logos for all projects forever, it would make sense to start enforcing heterogeneity across projects where it’s expected, and see how theme handles the diversity.

(How we might not want unexpected diversity in fonts is the opposite side of the same coin. Not sure if I am getting this thought across)

On 17 Jul 2018, at 11:47 PM, Ronald Tse notifications@github.com wrote:

@strogonoff Ricardo hasn't started working on it, but sure feel free to propose a vector 😉

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[strogonoff]

Switching riffol.com to this friendly salmon as the logo; you can find it under assets/symbol.svg there. You can also replace that file (and also _software/riffol/assets/symbol.svg for software package) with another symbol if you want. Note that it should be in SVG (see theme docs about SVG guidelines and other logo-related info).

[ronaldtse]

@strogonoff this looks good! Thanks!