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why does a protocol even need a brand/logo?

I'll give some context about how this whole logo conversation started. There's a mural at the cowork where #SovEng is taking place.

This mural is signed by the artist with their instagram handle. Just left of their handle is the tiny, wireframe version of the ig logo - which helps give context for the handle.

What icon would you put next to your NIP-05 was the question that sparked the conversation that came afterwards. It's not just for the sake of having a logo, but a very concrete use-case and this is why the logo had to be simple and easy to draw

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

A checkmark if the nip-05 checks out

franzap 2y ago

A checkmark in a mural? It needs to make some reference to nostr

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

im misunderstanding your use case. a checkmark doesnt make sense. instead, use the existing nostr logos or prefix with `nostr:` e.g. nostr:@franzap.com. regarding logos, the thin ostrich was popular but doesn not scale down well. The n with the ostrich head works well in print

corndalorian 2y ago

This seems like an extremely rare and niche use case for a logo. When was the last time you ever needed to hand draw a logo next to your name for other social networks? Most people just write IG, FB, Twitter, etc. I don’t think this is justification at all for proposing a new logo for Nostr.

tanel 2y ago

was about write this, seeing you already put my thought into words

WyhtBBDt 2y ago

Playing devil's advocate here but phone doesn't have a unique official logo. People use what they prefer yet everybody gets it.

atyh 2y ago

well then the solution must capture the complex and the simple. the transcendent and the based. the hopes and aspirations of a generation.

nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 ‘s head must be the logo.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 2y ago

wait, you guys aren't set up at that crazy former socialist industrial site near the trash factory?

oh, just occurred to me that if there was that place there might be others

nice.

no, you are at the place in funchal so no way you even know what i mean when i say the former abandoned industrial site covered in socialist graffiti

you guys have NO IDEA about this place, it's even more awesome than you even suspected but ... ok, apparently your leaders don't want you to know what a fucking awesome and antiauth place this is.

carry on...