Hello everyone,

This community is only a few hours old, and already there is a meta post ha ha.

I was just thinking that the EU flag doesn’t include non-EU countries such as Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Ukraine, Iceland, Albania, Georgia, etc.

Maybe a more “map-based” logo like this one could be considered too?

  • federal reverseM
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    86 days ago

    You’re right but the flag is easy to read even at low resolution. Not sure that a map would make for a good small icon.

    Even in all black, it’s kind of hard to see at low resolutions (ignore the superimposed flag, this is just what I found on the internet):

     Outline of European continent

    • @ServaisOP
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      56 days ago

      Thank you for your comment!

      As a comparison, the way !yurop@lemm.ee icon looks:

      I guess the shape of the continent is unique enough to be distinguishable

      • federal reverseM
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        6 days ago

        This is what that looks like in Photon (e.g. at https://p.feddit.org):

        And in the bottom bar, next to each other:

        (Granted, it’s a little unfair, since Photon in particular appears to scale the icons in a dumb way.)

        • @ServaisOP
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          36 days ago

          Seems reasonable on desktop, people are usually not having to look at the icon so much, they just want a way to quickly identify which community it is

          Mobile might be another story