Change icon from the blue "Google Chrome" icon to something more unique to Ungoogled-Chromium (and less "Googley")? #1756
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Related: #759 |
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maybe putting a U on the middle of the chromium icon. |
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I consider changing the icon to be rebranding the browser. I historically disagreed with rebranding because I think it sends a wrong message about what ungoogled-chromium is. However, I do see the value in adding some small indications that the browser is ungoogled-chromium and not Chromium. I would be willing to have an option for (not require!) ungoogled-chromium builds to include small changes of this manner. Perhaps these changes would be suitable for contrib? |
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Was actually thinking something a bit more of a departure from the logo entirely - something entirely original, something that captures the spirit of the project instead of still being derivitive. |
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But this project is a derivative in a large part. |
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The decision to remove Google's code was original. I was referring to honouring that, instead of the original project. |
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In the spirit of Elaston's comments (I hope), I had a very quick try at making an icon that's very obviously "Chromium", and still subtly "not Google".. I'm no visual designer so I'm sure somebody else will have a better idea (I was first looking into turning the center circle into another shape, like a octagon, but it looked clunky and would probably be lost at small sizes. Then I followed jstkdng's idea of including a "U" somehow) |
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For entirely original icon this project must have the entierly original name. On my opinion the furthest changes could take a place - modify original chromium icon. Edit: Aw.. Haven't notice
Then yeah, makes sense... |
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@jvzr |
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I've actually been thinking about this since I installed ungoogled-chromium a few months ago. I agree with @roshiajin-kunai that it should be green. It's clearly different and clearly chromium, just like the project. The chromium icon is a light blue, which is one of the three main colors we see (RGB) (over simplification); a light green is distinct from a light blue yet also RGB and recongnizably similar. It'd be interesting to see, perhaps, how a light green version of @jvzr 's design, which also incorporates the U, would look. |
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@jstkdng That was my original exploration but it didn't work at all, in my opinion: @u9000-Nine Something like that? (I tried to be faithful to Chrome's original green hues) |
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Maybe once a name has been chosen for the project, then focus on a new logo? The project is becoming more and more popular by the day and will probably get Google's attention sooner than later. |
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UnGoogled Chromium Free Icon - Download and Use |
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Where is the icon that come with this version? I mean the square with rounded corners ico, btw. The folder to be precise! |
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CC: @PF4Public @Eloston @GalacticSun @jvzr @jstkdng @sakkamade @networkException @Quetzaal @Tchoor @NukeThief OK, guys. Let's discuss! If we keep procrastinating on this and the rename, we will never move forward. Maybe you think that these changes are not important enough, or maybe there are other issues to prioritize so this shouldn't be discussed now. But I do think that the image, branding, name... are importants. For example, I've been using Ungoogled Chromium for the last few months (less than a year) just because I didn't find anything about this browser before and I'm a person quite concerned about privacy and FOSS projects (at least for the last 4 years). I even heard of LibreWolf before Ungoogled Chromium. I think in my case the problem was that probably I read about Ungoogled Chromium, but I thought it was a Chromium extension or something like that, instead of a fork of Chromium. Maybe if Ungoogled Chromium changes its name to something different, and with a complete different logo, people will start noticing this project more and more. ( Also this could be good for SEO(?) ) Another thing: Why isn't there an option to donate or sponsor this project on GitHub? I know that it is intended to be a community project, but with some contributions maybe the organization would have a paid Github plan for free (and in the future maybe more things: a simple cloud server, a domain...). Base suggestionChromium is named after the element No. 24 of the periodic table. And a lot of browsers kinda followed this: Vanadium, Iridium, Thorium, Bromite... If there isn't any other preferred proposal, I suggest doing the same. Just choose a element of the periodic table that is possible to write and pronounce (let's exclude Rutherfordium, Molybdenum, Darmstadtium...). A few suggestionsCopper Browser
Oxygen Browser
Osmium Browser
Goldium Browser
Neon BrowserUranium BrowserOther considerationsI think that we shouldn't take the Black / Dark gray palette, because Vanadium Browser on GrapheneOS already does that, so it could be confusing. Also before choosing a new name search for "X browser" in order to check if exists already a browser with this name (if the browser is a death project or a project with very little interest I think it wouldn't be a problem at all). |
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Well, by starting this thread, I actually meant coming up a different icon entirely, not just different colours. Anyone creative enough to come up with a completely different design for the icon? Some suggestions might be a sextant (https://dribbble.com/tags/sextant), a telescope (https://dribbble.com/tags/telescope), binoculars (https://dribbble.com/tags/binoculars), etc... anything other than that toilet-flush-swirl thing... |
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I think that changing the name to be a different element is a nice idea, but i don't agree on keeping the chrome-like icon. I think that a unique icon will be better than a recolored chrome icon. |
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Let me summarize both discussions (name-changing and icon-changing) so that we are all on the same page and avoid reiterating things again and again:
So to sum up: |
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Okay, why not we create a poll somewhere (mailing list? notification?) where users can vote on the top 5ish icons from this list, and then we can be done with this. There is clearly a lot of sentiment of “let’s vote now” throughout the years, and I don’t think that if we continue discussing it we’ll get anywhere. (It’s impossible to please everybody, so let’s just find something most people can agree on.) Here are what I think are the proposed icons that are most likely to be approved: Since many of these are similar, we should probably use ranked voting. (Also, it seems we’re totally fine to use / derive from the chromium logo.) |
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They might've been onto something. Here's my idea for the new logo proposal: ZIP contains the SVG and PNG. |
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This is now very important because of ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-flatpak#3. |
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Holy cow, the new red icon kinda shocked me when I opened UGC this morning. |
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the icon does indeed look like a pokeball lmao, can someone just make the chromium logo red-ish instead of making an entirely new one? |
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I was very confused when my Ungoogled Chromium icon changed from blue to red. I think this new logo looks too aggressive. Maybe change it to a softer color? |
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I think the new one has a slightly aggressive feel to it—straying a bit more from the original might help? five-minute sketch: featuring a very subtle gradient à la Chromium |
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Here's another proposal. without the 666 of Google on the external circle which is formed by the white circle that hiddes the "right angles" of the 3 pieces of blue. |
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I think it's great the way it is, and you are all going to talk about it for months and not make any progress. that's why someone had to just act, bravo for the initiative. |
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Just a suggestion...
Thanks and keep up the good work.
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