Logo

[safinsingh]

This may, seem silly, but in order for ManimCommunity to seem more official, I think we need to design on some sort of design or logo for our organization.

[leotrs]

Not silly. Totally with you.

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[sobirul]

Do you need a professional #logo for your business?
Contact me anytime.

[yoshiask]

We can't really have an icon before we know exactly what Manim is and how to represent it.

[kilacoda]

Do you need a professional #logo for your business?
Contact me anytime.

@sobirul You're welcome to do it, but we can't promise monetary payment, sorry.

[XorUnison]

Inspired by @kilacoda 's keyboard idea I've quickly put this together as a basic concept idea:

The point is to represent a numpad with a bunch of manim classes, because you know, math and numbers, and also numpad→keyboard→tool. If this becomes a favored idea we could work on it together, and as an added bonus with it being rendered in manim it could use a bunch of classes (while making sure it's not too noisy) which would also make it a candidate for testing picture output.

We can't really have an icon before we know exactly what Manim is and how to represent it.

Yeah. I at least do see manim as a tool for quite a few things math, and on a more basic level a gathering of classes.

[TonyCrane]

Sorry, but I think this may not be a good idea for the logo.

As a logo, it is best to be small and simple, not to include more connotations.
This logo is a bit large and has too much content.

Usually when we look at a logo, the logo is small, we can not clearly see the details, so I think it is not good to cover the logo with details.

[XorUnison]

Yeah. As a user avatar it'd definitely perform horrible. I have designed my own X logo that way for a reason after all too. But we should also keep in mind where the logo is placed, and user avatar size, I doubt is within the specs.
Just to underline the point with the current logo visible on the main github page:

And that's capped from a 4K screen so on a FHD screen it'd look... yeah. The second example though actually looks surprisingly decent. On my screen anyway.

Avatar size definitely shouldn't be our standard but what it should be is a good question to raise. Like do we have any compelling reason to opt for a singular logo of 40x40 size? Even if for some reason we do, is there anything speaking against a detailed and a manually simpled down version? Where are we standing here?

For reference, in my opinion a logo about the size of what I posted is fine, although the kind of logo is still entirely up for debate. As it stands the place it's most important is the main GitHub page, for which we really don't need, nor actually even should go smaller. Using it as a repository avatar might be nice, which would basically mean "looks okay at 100x100", but I wouldn't call that mandatory either. With this being a python library it's also not like we need a small program logo either.

[TonyCrane]

Sorry, I'm poor in English, maybe I misunderstood you or you misunderstood me.

design on some sort of design or logo for our organization.

In my understanding, the "logo" mentioned in this issue refers to the org's logo (that is, the user's avatar). But what you are referring to may be the header image to be placed in the README of the repo.

[XorUnison]

Right, but I think the header should include the logo in one way or another, and it should look nice there too. A logo tailored to user avatar sizes will inevitably fail at either looking nice or looking related.
We could go for something more abstract of course but that'd fail to capture the point of this tool.

[XorUnison]

Well, since this was brought up as a point for a 1.0.0 release... Do we have any other serious pitches for a logo so far?

[leotrs]

On discord we were discussing a logo that spells "manim" where each letter would showcase a feature of the library. For example, the first "M" could be a sideways capital Sigma. The capital sigma could be used as avatar/thumbnail.