Design Logo about howtographql HOT 8 CLOSED

Gotcha, valid feedback, thanks. I gave another version a spin with a play button theme. This is more true to the original triangle-in-hexagon motive that GraphQL has.

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First draft by @kuldarkalvik:

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This goes maybe partly hand-in-hand with the font selection for the brand (and thus the website). Currently I'm using Roboto – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto. Does anyone have comments/thoughts about this direction?

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Hi Kuldar :-) I'm really excited about the progress on howtographql. I have some quick feedback on the logo:

I really don't have a good understanding for design, so take my input for what it is.

1. I think the cut-in-half logo is too disconnected from the GraphQL design language.

2. It feels very unbalanced to look at. Johannes showed it to me transposed on the webpage, and it felt distracting rather than complementing.

Does that make sense?

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I like the Roboto font, however we have to see how it looks like for the general content.

I very much like the visual style of the logo but I think @sorenbs has a point that the logo is hard to connect to the GraphQL logo.

Any thoughts on this suggestion?

Should communicate "learning" or "tutorial" 🎓

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I really like the darker purple in your first post. It's close to the GraphQL pink but with an interesting twist. I think it's worth considering that the primary color of htgql.

I like the idea to deviate from the GraphQL logo on your first post as well, but I don't like the specific form.

Random idea, could we try something like an infinity sign but with the characteristic "dots" along the way? The two "circles" could represent the backend and frontend, respectively. Maybe we can even squeeze in a play icon or something else, too.

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About Søren's point that the logo is too disconnected from the vanilla GraphQL logo, I'd like to bring up the Relay logo. It perfectly complements the GraphQL and React logos while still representing Relay itself. So I don't think that something else than a hexagon is necessarily bad.

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I really like the idea of a play button in the GrahQL logo and I just I just realized: Turning the GraphQL logo by a few degrees actually reveals a ▶️ button inside of it.

Sidenotes:

1. The stroke of the logo suggestions feel a tad to "thick".
2. Can you put identifiers (A1, A2, ...) to the logo suggestions so we can reference them more easily when discussing them?

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