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Fediverse Poster (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A poster I made to promote the Fediverse.

The PDFs and the light version is on the Internet Archive.

This work is public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it; for example print it on a T-shirt!

EDIT: Low-contrast Solarized versions are now available!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps lower the contrast a bit? Use some gray and charcoal color? Presently it looks like what I see when I have migraine aura… and I don’t intend that to be mean or anything!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fair enough, I will make another version shortly

EDIT: Solarized low-contrast versions are available; I think it would look much better!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Solarized dark looks great!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Wow this would look really cool on a t-shirt / hoodie

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish I could say this is great, but it’s an unreadable mess. Looks like EEDT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That’s what I saw too at first

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I saw FFDI. Not much better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Question, what kind of design is this logo?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sort of vaguely op-art. Or postmodern brutalist perhaps.

It could be a bit better thought out to improve readability and find a more pleasing interaction between the letter and logo elements, but it’s an interesting idea to explore further I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Either put the letters or the logo in the background. This mixing effect is just hard on the eyes and triggers even my migraine. Definitely don't use this logo to promote the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a poster design, not a logo. It doesn't need to be as instantly recognizable. Putting one or three other in the background would make it a lot less visually interesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Each one of the circles could be an icon for the different mainstays

-Lemmy
-Mastodon
-Pixelfed
-Kbin/Mbin
-?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The main problem with that is that most of these platforms barely communicate with each other. I think mbin right now has the best multi platform support but even that is somewhat lacking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is true, but I don't think that's a good enough reason not to use them as the representations. The interoperability will improve over time, it just has to be developed more.

However, I am also hesitant about it for another reason in that I'm not really certain any of these platforms are static or will just forever keep changing over time. How do you represent a forever changing, evolving, dynamic network of platforms?

Also, we should try and focus on what are some of the ways that it could be improved as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That looks like an Iain Banks non-sci-fi book jacket