Hey @HongDa and anyone else involved in Suttacentral I have a request.
Can we please change the color scheme of the logo that appears as the tab icon for discuss and discover to a different set of colors to suttacentral?
I am forever having about 50 suttacentral tabs open to argue my endless points with @sunyo etc and I am forever having to scour them to see which one is the discussion page!
anyone else who has had this experience please rally to the cause and post your support for this idea here!
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stu
December 25, 2023, 9:16am
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What synchronicity. I was thinking about this myself just a few days ago. In the old days they used to be just that - the same logo, but in two different colour schemes
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HongDa
December 25, 2023, 11:02am
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I’m not the administrator of the forum, so I don’t know how to change the logo.
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That would be @musiko I believe?
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Yes, it’s Musiko that can change it. But I do t know who exactly makes the decision. Maybe the new com.ittee?
I agree it should have a different icon, mostly so people get a hint that the translations are one thing and the forum is another.
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sujato
December 28, 2023, 5:46am
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We can probably just invert the colours, but remember to do the favicon too.
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Here is the logo inverted with a yellow center to make it a bit more distinct:
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This is what it looks like with a black centre:
Honestly I’m not sure if as a favicon it will be very distinct. Also, the inverted colours won’t work with the dark theme on the forum without some kind of a line around the outside.
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For what it’s worth, it seems easier to me to distinguish the favicon with the black dot in the center from the default one. But they remain quite similar nevertheless and may be hard to quickly discern at such small sizes in a tab bar.
sujato
December 28, 2023, 8:37pm
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Maybe invert red to blue?
Akaliko
December 29, 2023, 1:22am
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Fwiw This is what the two icons currently look like on my phone (forum at top, website on bottom, with blue background)
And this is the loading page of the forum, with a black background.
I’m not sure that inverting the colours will make an easily discernable difference, especially on a small scale, as the sameness of the lotus shape tricks the eye. The black dot helps a bit though.
Maybe consider this drive before changing colours
Have fun!
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Haha! Never! This is the hill im dying on @awarewolf - the only reason you will see me stop is because im dead or i have achieved nibanna
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Why would nibbana stop you?
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Don’t worry, @josephzizys has explained that when he says argue he means good faith and good willed debate conducted in a respectful and kind manner intended only for learning and testing ones dearly held assumptions and views so as to generate confidence and to discard wrongly held views.
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Has this already happened?
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not on mine? that looks cool!! how did you do that?
Invo
January 2, 2024, 8:43am
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In the past I had suttacentral.net yellow/red, and D&D black & white and it was great. Since some time both suttacentral.net & D&D are yellow/red, exactly the same, and I too would love to have D&D again black & white. I agree it was much easier to find the right tab back then.
Invo:
black & white
The black and white logo is used by Voice . So removing one confusion, one would add another one. If we change the D&D logo it would be good to choose a different color scheme, but not black and white.
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Invo
January 2, 2024, 11:47am
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Thank you dear Sabbamitta
Then perhaps let suttacentral.net keep original yellow/red, and the other two (D&D & Voice) perhaps black & white and another one brownish (also a buddhist color, bhikkhunis has such robes sometimes). I don’t if D&D make black and white or brownish, but either one would work. Just my proposition.
A change of the Voice logo will likely not happen.
We have only one developer with limited capacities, and the things that are necessary for Voice to survive into the future are many. Anything that is not really required will just be postponed and probably never come about, I am afraid.
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