Change the app's icon

[sivaraam]

It seems the app's icon needs some update. It doesn't look so nice on some backgrounds.

Though the logo seems to be clear in the above screen shot it's not when the brightness is low. It's very hard to identify it.

How about giving it a circular (Android O's coming) white background to it.

[thetimaw]

i gave it a white border

[psh]

If we're going to play around with the icon, I'd suggest digging into Google's style guide - https://material.io/guidelines/style/icons.html

The other small change would be to create 'adaptive icons' (see https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive.html) so that Oreo users see icons more suited to the platform.

[thedeadline]

Hi,
I'd like to create an adaptive icon for the app but I can't find the raw file for the icon... is the original vector file (illustrator, sketch, etc.) available in the repo?

Thanks, I'm new to open source contribution (doing it for Hacktoberfest) :).

[nicolas-raoul]

The SVG is on Wikimedia Commons 🙂

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[psh]

@nicolas-raoul - Do you think it would be a good idea to drop a copy into the 'design' folder of this project, just for reference?

[thedeadline]

@nicolas-raoul can you be more specific? I only see the ic_launcher psd source file but it doesn't look like the current app icon.
I agree with @psh I thought it would be in 'design' and looked there first.

[nicolas-raoul]

Here is the SVG: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg
Yes, feel free to add it inside the project, good idea!

[neslihanturan]

Actually a related PR already merged, but our logo still looks same, I couldn't understand the reason. But if we are okay with current look of the icon, I will close this discussion. Personally, I am okay.

[nicolas-raoul]

The merge was only so that it behaves differently on Android O, apparently.

I agree that the icon is sometimes not very visible. If anyone has a good design that make the Commons icon more visible, feel free to propose it.

[neslihanturan]

Actually @tim-weaver made white borders for our icon at #875 but since the PR didn't merged for long time, and I think it doesn't look very beautiful with white borders, closed the PR. We can always re-open and merge it if you like white borders. But I think we are still welcome design ideas for Commons icon.

[sivaraam]

We can always re-open and merge it if you like white borders.

I think it doesn't improve things much.

But I think we are still welcome design ideas for Commons icon.

How about using one version of the adaptive icons (I like the square one with the rounded corners) for other android versions? I guess it would solve the issue.

[whym]

It might be useful to ask Wikimedia Foundation Legal team about what kind of modifications are allowed to the original logo which is a trademark of theirs. (I believe this app's logo is under a trademark agreement with them, right? Unless perhaps we choose an entirely new one.)

I found https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines but it only talks bout the Wikipedia logo. (They are fairly restrictive about it, by the way)