Artwork project

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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.

Requirements

As there are various screen sizes and contexts, the artwork needs to be scalable. To achieve this scalability all icons must be done in vector (SVG). Splash screens, OTOH are allowed to be raster graphics. At the same time, splash screens should be provided with several resolutions, according to HiDPI support guidelines.

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.

Forum threads