Hi everyone!

I’m an Industrial/Product Designer in my professional life, and I was so inspired by @UrLogicFails’s fantastic new community icons that I wanted to try out some of my own design ideas for Beehaw.

First, I tried my hand at an icon for Beehaw. I’m endeared to the little pixelated bee-cowboy we have now, but my background is in cleaner, more minimal designs that are easy to deploy to lots of different devices. A good logo sets a good first impression, and I want new users to see Beehaw as a real, legitimate alternative vision for social media. I’ve tried to recreate the back of a bee, and used the wings to form a subtle letter “B.” My personal favorite is the hexagon bestagon, but I have both iOS and Android variations. Icon design is always really contentious, but it’s also really fun - I’d love to see other people’s ideas!

Second, I took a stab at tweaking the design of Beehaw, with the goals improving the layout and padding, introducing a more consistent color scheme, increasing legibility, and (of course) incorporating more bee elements. I’m working on a CSS theme that incorporates some of these changes, but others are beyond the scope of CSS injections and will require actual work on Lemmy-UI.

Light Theme:

Dark Theme:

I’d love to hear your thoughts, and I’m happy to share more if people are interested :)

Thanks for viewing, take care!

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    Yellow is a really difficult colour to work with when it comes to an accent in theme.

    Instead of the backgrounds, being black and white, I’d suggest a charcoal and a tawny; give it a more homely feel; which is what Beehaw aims to be.

    Looks great, needs some warmth

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        What’s the Picasso quote? Great artists steal? :P This is a good suggestion, I’ll definitely try it out! I’ve long used #f7f7f7 for white and #1a1a1a for black, but breaking that dogma here could be valuable

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          This is the Fediverse!

          We are not bound by petty conventions and copyright!

          I like the idea of being able to side step the homogenisation of the modern web. BeeHaw is free to have a soul! And I’d like that soul to be cozy