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Eternity

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Hello everyone!

You may have noticed that Eternity's icon could use a bit of a facelift (I just hacked it together to have something). Well, it's time for a change and I'd like to get all you talented folks involved!

So, I want to host a competition where you can submit your designs for a new app icon. Once we have all the submissions, we can vote as a community to pick our new icon!

Some details to keep in mind:

Deadline: I'll be accepting submissions until the 8th of September, 2023, 18:00 CET. I might extend this deadline if we have too few submissions.

Format: Submissions should be in SVG or PNG format, with a 1:1 aspect ratio.

Resolution: Please ensure your design is at least 512x512 pixels if you're going with PNG.

Monochrome Version (Optional): It'd be great to see a monochrome version of your design too (for Material You icons).

Design: Your design should be colorful, fun, and engaging. The original UFO spaceship could be a source of inspiration, or elements of the fediverse or Lemmy. Of course, if you've got another creative idea, go wild!

Once the submissions close, we'll have a public vote to pick the winner (similar to what we did with the app name).

Thanks in advance for participating.

Happy designing!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

You should probably add what license the icon will be under, if it's submitted to the project. Creative Commons? GPL?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here is a showcase of my icons, both monochrome and full detail. One was inspired by the UFO design, one by this community's current placeholder icon. I could tweak these a little more, but I think that these are good for now.

Each individual icon in SVG and PNG format (zip archive)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We have a winner 🎊
Bottom left looks great, maybe too dark

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

bottom left is good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bottom left looks really cool at this size, but I think it wont be distinguishable enough at icon size. Top left is 💯/💯

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here’s my submission! Pictured below is the little dude taking a space walk out in psychedelic space. I loved the palette of the original icon, so I kept that mostly the same.

Mockup: Mockup

Submission images: Material You Full color

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This one's really good! I like that it works well as a monochrome icon while also having a detailed full-color icon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Somehow I cannot see the images on Eternity (ironic...) but on another client I was able to see them. Looks good!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked the old one. We should keep it and/or allow people to vote to keep it in, for now. And we can repeat the contest when the userbase grows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] ScottE 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda like the avatar your account has... Would be a fine app icon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same, OP/community icon looks nice. It could be the app icon os something similar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a point of consideration for those submitting ideas... Make sure you zoom way out on your icon and look at how it will appear when sized for a phone.

IMO that's the biggest issue with the current icon - I just can't tell wtf it is when it's like 1/4” square.

Not a criticism, just something that's easy to lose sight of when you're working at a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've only just realised the icon isn't actually a mole.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the current icon, it's lovely. Just needs the background tweaked a bit.

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

Yes, I like the current one as well ! It just needs a little more work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How about taking inspiration from an ouroboros image.

I am a shitty artist/designer, so I can't help with actual designing. Ouroboros kinda means perpetual state, maybe eternity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been following this thread to check out all the great app icon designs being submitted. But I haven't seen anything more since the Sep 8th deadline about where we go from here. Any news?

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

My submission

I was inspired by Eternity from Marvel Comics who looks like this

The icon is Lemmy's mascot with an infinity symbol for eyes, it is a nod to both the concept of Eternity and a callback to the Infinity client as Eternity was formerly known as Infinity for Lemmy.

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

Looks like a not-melted meta (facebook) logo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So the infinity symbol is now a "not-melted meta logo". Please kill me.