monero-project
Select "official" Monero colors, and make consistent on website and in press kit
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/yqkgzx/colors_for_the_monero_logo_are_inconsistent/
What should the "official" orange and grey be?
Then, we can change the logos on getmonero.org (including the press kit) to be the same color.
I would appreciate a loose social consensus around which colors to use; visual consistency is nice to have when possible.
Personally, I like FF6600 + 4C4C4C
Maybe go back to the roots and take the original design as reference? It was a design contest on 99designs that decided the logo:
https://en.99designs.ch/logo-design/contests/monero-mro-cryptocurrency-logo-design-contest-382486/entries
I've been using FF6600 + 4C4C4C for my edits because that's the colors that come up on this website
I checked what colors result, at least on my screen with my browser, from the winning logo on 99designs that I linked: Exactly that, FF6600 and 4C4C4C.
Concur with FF6600 and 4C4C4C. All the options are barely distinguishable and certainly aren't (to me) unless immediately side-by-side, and these colors not only align with the original design contest but also seem to be the most widely used (old GUI, Wikipedia, Reddit). So selecting these colors will mean less effort - primarily just changing what's on getmonero.org (which would have to be done anyway since they're all different within the website).
Interesting to me that the old GUI used 4C4C4C and the new one release is slightly off (according to Leza89).
Can someone make a palette sampler so I can look at the different ideas? Hexcodes do not correspond to colors in my mind (not sure about you guys though).
Current & proposed brand hex values that would help improve readability across surfaces!
@codymadethis the webpage already recommends using the version with a white M: https://www.getmonero.org/press-kit/
Changing the grey to black may look worse on black backgrounds.
@SamsungGalaxyPlayer oh fair on the dark grey (might need further tweaking), I was targeting the orange value in my original comment!
I think Monero is mature enough to be shown in monochrome and still be recognizable, as long as we don't lose the 45º M and the extra serifs to the sides.
That doesn't mean we cannot keep using the duotone version specially for in-person flags, stickers, etc; but in most UIs we can do it fully orange and it'll work, or white/black depending of the background.
I think Monero is mature enough to be shown in monochrome and still be recognizable, as long as we don't lose the 45º M and the extra serifs to the sides.
That doesn't mean we cannot keep using the duotone version specially for in-person flags, stickers, etc; but in most UIs we can do it fully orange and it'll work, or white/black depending of the background.
Orange and gray are the colors of Monero's people. We should not extinguish our identity and fade into the traps of modern design. Fully orange would just look weird.