Artwork project
Artwork project is a project dedicated to coming up with a new logo, icons, and pictures.
Rationale
Every once in a while a new contributor proposes a new logo or icon. This page is meant to track those proposals and discussions around them.
Logo proposals
A new logo proposal comes up quite often. Even though there's a dedicated thread people for proposals, people open a new thread for their own work.
Proposals can be divided into several categories:
- A variation of traditional design with F and the gear
- An updated traditional design with F and C stylized as caliper and the gear
- Geometrical flat figures representing F and C
- F, C, gear depicted in 3D
- Abstract ideas, not obviously related to F, C, gear
Artwork
Artwork is proposed less often as there are dozens and hundreds of icons in FreeCAD. Only a few people dared to try this. The traditional artwork is done by a single man years ago. There are currently 2 proposals in progress.
Color theme
Colors are quite an important part of branding. Unique colors are subconsciously associate the product with a brand in the mind of a user. Since artwork proposals are of various color schemes, we need to come up with an easy way to apply a color theme to icons once we establish it.
Currently, there are hundreds of different colors and gradients in the existing artwork. A successful color scheme only needs a dozen: 3 main colors, black, white, and 3 shades of each.