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Re/design the Covid19-hg "logo"?

mattsolo1 opened this issue · comments

Re/design the Covid19-hg "logo"?

What is the expected behavior?

The current website splash page header is often used as a logo, but it's not very "logo-like".

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What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?

Currently the main problem is there is no obvious way to capture the logo in a screenshot. If you capture the whole header (including the manhattan plot), the text is too small. If you capture the text + virus portion only, then there is a bit of manhattan peak in there as well which doesn't look good.

Moreover, it doesn't look like a typical logo, which I think should be simpler and self-contained (I'm allowed to criticize it since I designed it 🤣.

Perhaps the best solution is to modify the current form slightly, e.g. show just the virus and the text (i.e. none of the manhattan plot)? Or I could try rendering a simpler/smaller manhattan plat underneath the text to keep with the theme. Or we could come up with new concepts/designs entirely. The gold standard is to have some kind of "style guide" to show how to use the logo in different scenarios: e.g., https://www.behance.net/gallery/7226653/Medium-Brand-Development. At the very least, distributing transparent SVGs would be a good idea.