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Codeforces Logo Redesign
By kowalsk1, history, 4 years ago, In English

I've been working on this little project lately of making a new logo for codeforces, just for fun. The link to check it out is below, and please send your feedback.

Edit: Just a little side note for those unfamiliar with behance: You can scroll down to see the whole presentation.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/110153699/Codeforescom-Rebranding-Concept

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It looks really nice, I like it!

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It's nice! Maybe try to preserve the original codeforces colors in the logo?

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    Tried various ways to implement the original colors, but none none of them seemed to work. If I come up with a good way, I'll put in the project.

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    I tried this after reading your comment

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      This is pretty nice tbh

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      Oh wow, that is nice! Maybe adjust color distribution though, there are fewer reds than blues on Codeforces, except during New Year :)

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      After doing some color changes:

      It also represents, rating scenario here on Codeforces.

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        Not that I'm against LGBT, but I feel the rainbow colors unmatching and out of place in the 'Codeforces' text. And the graph colors are red-blue-green 'coder colors', they don't really match either.

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          I think they are not rainbow colors, but rather rating colors in decreasing order from left to right. Also in the logo there are three colors from each Division here.

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            The exact wording or the logic behind this or that color doesn't matter much, red-green-blue don't match, light blue doesn't go around with green and gray, and too colorful logos distract attention from the content.

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      I like that

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      Please make this the logo instead! :))

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      Logo is good but just want to ask does this logo means something like something it symbolises?

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      Woah, this looks really really good

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Your designs are nice. But I like the present one.

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Can't say if it is better than the present one, but still, kinda looks sleek and stylish.Nice work

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Can you explain what is the meaning behind that logo? I feel that it suits something math-y like Project Euler more.

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    It is meant to represent an ascending rating graph, but in sort of a geometric way.

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by kowalsk1 (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Topcoder vibes

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The logo is cool, but i don't think it goes well with codefoces. The current one is better

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It's awesome.

One little advice: if you can differentiate CODE and FORCES part then it would resemble the current one. Like let the CODE part Black and make FORCES part blue ,It will match with the logo of your design and would follow the current design.

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i liked this logo very much, the guy behind that project is a genius

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I like the logo on its own, but I think it looks too tall compared to the word 'Codeforces'. Maybe increasing its weight and putting the word below the logo works better.

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    Thought about it as well, perhaps I should put the name "codeforces" aligned with the bottom of the icon and also reduce the icon size a bit. I'll try and see how it looks and post here.

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    Something like this, maybe?

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      This looks better, but font weight doesn't quite match logo weight, I think. Maybe make the graph a little bolder?..

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Very nice! I guess it can be represented in SVG to have good look on each resolution. At the particular angle it looks like swallow, lol). In my opinion it's more original than the current one.

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    What exactly do you mean by "swallow"? Hollow, maybe?

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Have you noticed the Coronaforces thing being removed?

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Did anyone notice that CF actually used this logo ?

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    It is still using it. Probably your browser has the old logo cached somewhere.

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      Nope. It first appeared for about 5 minutes, then disappearead for about 2 minutes. And then re-appeared again. He commented when the logo was reverted back to the original for 2 minutes

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        I am fast ;o. I’m so fast that sometimes I hit the light switch in my room and jump into bed before my room goes dark.

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Congratulations kowalsk1. Your logo design is official now

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Am I drunk or the logo really changed to this one? It's cool but it's weird seeing Codeforces with another logo.

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It’s beautiful！And you can see old logo while writing comments，awesome.

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Great! Honestly looks better in dark mode though and I think CF would greatly benefit from dark mode like CSES does.

The scripts just aren't the same as a native dark mode.

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A great logo! But seriously, they could have gone for an SVG type image as this one looks a bit pixelated. Also it seems they forgot to change the logo in title bar.

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It's a cool logo, but I think the previous one fits more with the aesthetics.

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Congrats kowalsk1 . It happened

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Is telegram sponsorship over? Who will sponsor now?

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why there is small dot appearing in the official logo?

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new logo looks blurry with dark reader right now. i hope this will be fixed!

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I don't find the logo specifically bad. However, in my opinion it is very inconsistent with the website theme. If there is going to be a rebranding of the whole website to match the round "metro" look of the logo I guess it might ultimately suit the platform, but in the current state I think it looks very out-of-place.

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T-shirts are fantastic!!!!

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