Branded chat icons

[r4zzz4k]

Some people mention confusion about our chats related to each other. Thought we have them all mentioned in rules, not everyone goes checking them.

Multiple chat and channel families go the way of including some noticable detail to their icon, which makes them recognizable and related just by looking at chat list. We should do something similar.

[dector]

What do you think about this color-scheme?

Kotlin Start
Kotlin Community
Kotlin JS
Kotlin Android
Kotlin JVM
Meta

[dector]

I'm not true welder designer, but here are few sketches:

Full-size

[r4zzz4k]

Thanks, this seems nice! I'd go for colored logo, it should be more recognizable when scimming through chat icons.
What do you think of icons instead of text for each chat? JVM, JS and Android have simple icons which should be reognizable even in small sizes. Native is a bit harder, as LLVM dragon is too detailed. Maybe some emoji-like chip would be okay. Though it also covers iOS. Dunno. Start can be something like 🎓, meta -- wooden hammer or something related to court.
Let us know if this sounds reasonable and if so, how does it look!

[Miha-x64]

Kotlin Android is actually called Kotlin Mobile. Looks like it was also intended for iOS and MPP.
I like both monochrome icons and stroked coloured one. Unstroked coloured look worse.

[IRus]

Kotlin Mobile

Looks like it was also intended for iOS and MPP.

Yes, but looks like it's not so true and this chat is used by Android developer only. My hope was that adoption of MPP will be swift (ha!), but right now it's not so (or people use some other place for MPP discussions)

Chats Group and Individuality

We have two opposite goals here:

1. Make Kotlin chats recognizable as single group
2. Every Kotlin chat should be unique to distinguish between chats

We can use for this color and layout

I suggest to use color for distinguishing, and layout for grouping.

Colors and Layout

Here how JB uses two color ("Kotlin Colors") and form for different platforms:

We can advantage this, and use this colors for avatars.

Also we can use platform colors like:

JS:

Android:

Native (LLVM) - debatable:

OpenJDK:

[IRus]

Also we should make sure that avatar looks good with light and dark themes, and avatars recognizable even with small blur on top of them.

[r4zzz4k]

Both LLVM's dragon and Apple's, well, apple, are silver, so it may be an option to go with gray-ish color.

I also agree that _mobile is used for Android only and that seems to be more friendly not to disrupt current chat usage. I doubt androiders not using KMP would be fond of Native-related questions.

[dector]

@IRus awesome options!

Also, jic: these folks have quite nice outlined logo https://twitter.com/HelloKotlin