Our new logo has been designed by Chris O'Keefe and generously donated to Voat. I love how it showcases the key concept of Voat platform and how simple yet majestic it is :)
Chris also drew a few sketches of the Voat goat which is thought to replace our existing mascot.
Like it? Let us know "in comments below". Hate it? Too bad, it's too late for you to do anything now since we already started using it. We do love us some comments though and I'm sure Chris would like to hear what you guys think.
Edit: critique is also welcome, Chris is an awesome guy :)
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Nurdoidz ago
If only praises are considered, then I don't think there is a point in making a comment in the first place. Even with that understood, I am going to make a critique anyway. I like the logo a lot. It's clever in the fact that it uses the arrows as the letters and even includes the color scheme of the site.
There is one detail that makes it awkward for me, though, and it's the outline. Compared to the rest of the site, the outline is too pronounced: thick and dark and stands out too much. It makes the rest of the site washed out by contrast and is the reason I avoided dark outlines in the rest of the design.
If the outline was thinner and lighter, it would be the perfect logo for the site. However, if the outlines stay, the designer inside of me would say that the rest of the site would need to be designed to reflect the new style.
Edit: I made an attempt at a minity-style logo based off of Mr. O'Keefe's logo. Here is the comment thread.
Gamerdog6482 ago
It looks perfectly fine with the dark theme, which I have a suspicion is what it was designed in mind for.
Nurdoidz ago
Well, if you want to speculate, I can argue that it was actually designed for the light theme, since the dark theme has a completely different color pallet. Both the blue and violet shade in the logo match the light voting arrows almost exactly. White is also an almost non-existent color in the dark theme.
The logo looks better in the dark theme because the outline doesn't stand out as much.