I’m not a designer myself, but I thought it would be cool to have a design contest where people could voluntarily propose new visual elements for lemmy.world like a new logo, new icons for “main” communities, default avatar for people without avatars etc…

Might be too early for CSS changes though as I understand that Lemmy’s web UI is still changing?

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    I had this shower-thought the other day for a Lemmy feature: user avatars should sit inside a donut shaped “instance avatar”. Like many (most?) people, I’m new here but I’m already seeing that instances are a larger macro-community so having that extra bit of identity makes sense to me.

    I’m not a graphic designer but the idea of visually playing your own avatar off on your instance’s avatar sounds fun.

    Just something I remembered while reading “visual identity” in the title.

    • @ElectroVagrantMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      user avatars should sit inside a donut shaped “instance avatar”.

      Forgive me for I am about to make a terrible word, and a terrible joke(?), an “instatube”. Y’know, like an inner tube the avatar sits in, themed after the instance like you kinda describe.