Create and Design Icons for a Chat System
Having all of our awesome Fedora Matrix channels have the same Fedora icon is going to make it hard to tell the difference between channels quickly. :smile: Lets make sure they all look cool and distinct [Outreachy applicants welcomed and encouraged](https://pagure.io/mentored-projects/issue/133) The old ticket where Madeline created the first 10 icons and documented her work can be found here: https://gitlab.com/fedora/design/team/logos/fedora-project-logos/-/issues/2/ ![element_icon_how_to_pg1](/uploads/82c8891750df75571a6194d45a3e3f92/element_icon_how_to_pg1.png) ![element_icon_how_to_page_2](/uploads/e827d94d92d6ca3b9b647151c44a340d/element_icon_how_to_page_2.png) **Please download this base svg file when bringing work into inkscape to ensure the proper canvas dimensions.** ![element_icons_base.svg](/uploads/89c7da64dc745d1f6af3f7ae68446aba/element_icons_base.svg) * **What makes a good contribution / strong application to this project?** - We are looking for the following things: - Evidence of research and understanding of chat room/space, team, and/or project your icon design is for. Did you look up the team’s website using a search engine? Did you read a Fedora Magazine article on the project? Did you talk to anybody on the team about their work? Could you accurately explain what the point of the chat room is, or what the team that uses it does? - A statement explaining your concept and its relationship to the chat room/space it is meant for. What are the various elements in your design? What do they symbolize? Why did you choose the composition of elements that you did? How does this all relate to the purpose of the team/project(s) using the chat room / space? - Understanding/familiarity and adherence to the project requirements. There is visual documentation and written guidelines and templates for this project and the strongest designs will clearly be informed by these guidelines and specifications. - Sketches to illustrate your concept - even better if presented in context. We are looking for sketches - they can be pencil sketches, digital sketches, or digital mockups using a vector tool to be able to visualize and evaluate the effectiveness of your design. Note that all of the potential tasks that are part of this project are icons for chat rooms and chat spaces. When we evaluate your design work, we have to think about whether or not the format/scale/composition/level of detail are appropriate for the context of being a chat room icon. The best submissions will be mocked up inside the chat client to show your design in-situ and in the final context it would be displayed in, to show you’ve put thought into how the icon will show up in the chat system and tested it out for effectiveness.
epic