gui: Make Bitcoin Core logo pure black #16571

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MarcoFalke commented at 1:59 PM on August 8, 2019: member
This normalized the Bitcoin Core icon branding for consistency.
- Our website has a black theme
- Our GitHub, Twitter, Snap Store and other media channels have the black logo (https://twitter.com/bitcoincoreorg , https://snapcraft.io/bitcoin-core , ... )
Todo:
- Restore the vibrant colors for each test chain
- Generate the mac icon (help needed)
molxyz commented at 2:04 PM on August 8, 2019: none

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. It's my fav color but I have come across someone's comment that it makes Bitcoin Core look like "Nazi", whatever that means. If we could give users a choice of a few colors for the gui, I think it would be better.

EDIT: That person's comment was about the theme color of bitcoincore.org website.
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jamesob commented at 2:29 PM on August 8, 2019: member

Concept ACK
michaelfolkson commented at 2:39 PM on August 8, 2019: contributor

Concept ACK
jonasschnelli commented at 2:54 PM on August 8, 2019: contributor

General concept ACK though we need to visually compare and eventually optimize.
laanwj commented at 2:54 PM on August 8, 2019: member

~0, I'm fine with the orange color tbh, I don't see a strong reason to change this, will cause more drama and complaining and bikeshedding for no good reason, and seems it even has been Godwin'd already …
jnewbery commented at 3:10 PM on August 8, 2019: member

concept ACK
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practicalswift commented at 7:56 PM on August 8, 2019: contributor

Concept ACK
promag commented at 8:03 PM on August 8, 2019: member

Maybe also list other pages that needs to be updated if this goes forward, like https://github.com/bitcoin-core.

I like both, maybe fuse both in a tiger pattern..
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hebasto commented at 7:58 AM on August 10, 2019: member

I like the current orange color branding. There is another way to achieve consistency: change icons on the website, GitHub, Twitter etc.
Sjors commented at 4:28 PM on August 11, 2019: member

I'm not a fan of changing orange. You could even argue in favor of using a different color, to distinguish software from the coin. The Bitcoin Core software (black) works on the coin Bitcoin (orange) and the coin Bitcoin testnet (green).

As a first step though, you could introduce a single SVG from which we derive the other images.
emilengler commented at 9:14 PM on August 11, 2019: contributor

I agree with Sjors. The current colors which indicate the chain are perfect and I have no problems with the orange one. Concept NACK because of the reasons above
instagibbs commented at 1:12 PM on August 12, 2019: member

concept NACK for the same "it's showing what chain is running" reasons
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luke-jr commented at 7:02 PM on August 23, 2019: member

The orange logo is for Bitcoin itself, not specific to Bitcoin Core.

I do like the idea of Bitcoin Core getting its own logo, but I'm not sure just making it black is a good one.

Note that simply replacing the Bitcoin icon isn't sufficient either - systems expect the generic Bitcoin icon installed as-is, even if we have an application-specific icon to add. (I probably have code in Knots to address this discrepancy should a Core logo move forward.)

The current colors which indicate the chain are perfect

A black logo doesn't mean we can't use other colours for non-mainnet.
emilengler commented at 10:16 PM on August 23, 2019: contributor

@luke-jr Bitcoin Core already has it's own logo iirc. You should see a small gradient different than other logos. See here and here

The first one is the Bitcoin Core one
Sjors commented at 10:45 AM on September 16, 2020: member

Renewed proposal in https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/89
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