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Cauldron with HB inside is too good to let slip, i'll hang onto that, maybe make some desings around that and let you know. if you see this comment and i haven't reached you, feel free to remind me of it. about Luminari, quick search in google tells me for its use as a web font, it has a pay once license, but for the use in a logo, can be used as a personal license, which is still 25 ish dollars source: https://www.fonts.com/font/canada-type/luminari/licenses |
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A few suggestions to add to those fonts, all free licenses:
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Please no Black Chancery. That's the Comics Sans of fantasy gaming. :) |
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In what sense? its definitely my personal favourite here. Also, please add fonts for this. |
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Updating with such fonts:
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This could be a good place to discuss wether having a banner for the subreddit is a good idea |
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I tried a gradient suggested by @G-Ambatte to make a quick mockup, the gradient is: 
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For contrast reasons, we should have either a brighter and a darker alternative, or add a stroke or shadow to the logo on backgrounds of a simmilar brightness. I would go with some color between |
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How about these
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any specific color you feel would work better? 
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On this particular background, I feel only the bright yellow and Off-white work well. |
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I think this design is great, personally my favorite of the suggestions |
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A quick sketch of another angle on the same idea (letters on a bubbling cauldron): 
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not gonna lie, that's closer to a shield than a cauldron. Also looks like the logo for a boring network company |
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Yeah, it was sort of a “try something different and see what happens” effort. I wouldn’t take it as-is, but I also think it’s an attempt to consider other styles rather than get tunnel vision for the “first idea”. Regarding network company, that’s pretty close to the inspiration— I was looking at a collection of many logos of code frameworks (react, svelte, node, js, etc). Many of those are same-y, but they look good when all collected together. |
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Adding a few ideas made with AI: With Cauldrons:
With scrolls and quills
This weird one with curly spans: |
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Either this image is malformed or you uploaded it wrong |
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You have GitHub in dark so you can't see it 😂 |
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Ah I see it now (I also was confused by the image, curse you dark mode); you took the d20 die and just put a white block on top to imitate an open-topped cauldron shape. |
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It still is a gigantic d20 with a white block, alright |
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Was a quick-and-dirty to illustrate the point which it seems to have done poorly. |
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Here is a quick mockup of another idea I had: 
It could be refined further but just wanted to throw up something quick. |
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Yeah the color was just already the loaded color in my 'palette' and I didn't want to fuss with finding the 'correct' color. I spent about 1 minute thinking about font. |
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What does it look like just stroked, drop all of the fills. |
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Like this ? |
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noice |
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I like this. |
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Another option, following the markdown pattern (the markdown logo is the letter M and a down-arrow) In white, and black, two options: 
The latter would definitely need some refining. |
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To clarify, Homebrewery = Home + Beer icons |
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another option would be a home icon and a d20 icon inside it. |
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Another idea, combining {} + H :
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I like this if this is the kind of icon that is desired. It is clean. I do worry, sometimes, that the "Beerier" ideas come of as not immediately reading as not for the Beer use of the term. |
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I do worry about using beer for the icons as well, but the brand is called the Homebrewery, hence why i suggested the house + beer one |
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That is an argument to consider a new name. A weak one, but... |
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I did say it was a weak one. Homebrewery is simultaneously a great and terrible name. |
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Different idea, not really sure what i think of it but, as always, just feeding the idea machine: Fountain Pen and Bracket
(I can see that the fountain pen looks a little "knife-y" but this is a quick 5 minute sketch). Possibly this can be used as a different icon, maybe for the "Brew Editor" tab if we ever add icons to that. |
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as seen in the smaller versions, you can't much see what it is, it's an okay logo but a bad icon |
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Curly Bracket as Open Book
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Letterpress Moveable Type Blocks
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I kinda love the cauldron logo, why changing it ? Imo it's the most recognizable one. Here is more idea based on what I imagine for the logo |
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I'm not sure it'll ever change. I think the original motivation here was that the cauldron logo is used in one spot, which is on the https://www.naturalcrit.com page which is seldomly visited (the direct link to the homebrewery home page is most often shared). Instead, it is the 'naturalcrit die' that is most commonly used-- on the subreddit banner, in the brew image placeholder, in the menubar, etc. So I was thinking about flipping that dynamic, and in the process revisiting what the logos could be. Also, just fyi, i edited your comment just to reduce the displayed size of the images a bit. |
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it looks alright, but we need the logos to work as icons, so that is too much clutter, you'd need to indentify it at a size of 150px max |
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Late to the party, I know, but I really like the curly bracket integration into the logo. Has anyone toyed with making the “B” in an HB abbreviated logo as the curly bracket? Something like “Hl}”, but with a more stylized and curvy bracket? |
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Graphic design is my PaSsIoN
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My quick attempt before i have to go make lunch: 
I don't love it, particularly the |
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Is that a crossbow? |
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I like the crossbow-esque idea too, but I love the cauldron too much not to try and incorporate it |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure there is an open Issue already for the possible new logo's that have been pitched? This thread can be that place where those ideas are collated. I do think we have other Discussions and Issues open for things like UI design and those can be kept separate.
For logos, my ideal is an SVG that works at small and large sizes, without losing details when set to very small. And that it can integrate well with regular text-- not necessarily "normal font", just that any text in the logo can be rendered as text vs part of the svg. Finally, multicolor is fine but it should ideally work in grayscale and even just straight black contours.
At least some of the below are designed around the presumption that the brand is "Homebrewery" rather than the current "The Homebrewery".
A. Here is something that happened sort of accidentally: I did not expect the 'h' in 'homebrewery' to fit sit neatly inside the cauldron. The font is just Luminari, which I think is commonly available on computers.
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Shorter Icon:
B. This is just a non-textual icon that would go wherever. In my opinion it loses points when it's very small, and it could be simplified a bit, which led to the first (A) option.
C. I think this one looks classy....like the sign of some clothing store at an upscale mall in the suburbs. One nice thing about it is that the logo fits neatly inside the name, which means it's taking less space and placement around other items is likely easier?
D. Similar feel to (C), but with Scaly Sans rather than Mr Eaves and showing the balance with NaturalCrit:
E. Again, similar, different font (Copperplate):
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