Change icon from the blue "Google Chrome" icon to something more unique to Ungoogled-Chromium (and less "Googley")? #1756
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Related: #759 |
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maybe putting a U on the middle of the chromium icon. |
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I consider changing the icon to be rebranding the browser. I historically disagreed with rebranding because I think it sends a wrong message about what ungoogled-chromium is. However, I do see the value in adding some small indications that the browser is ungoogled-chromium and not Chromium. I would be willing to have an option for (not require!) ungoogled-chromium builds to include small changes of this manner. Perhaps these changes would be suitable for contrib? |
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Was actually thinking something a bit more of a departure from the logo entirely - something entirely original, something that captures the spirit of the project instead of still being derivitive. |
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But this project is a derivative in a large part. |
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The decision to remove Google's code was original. I was referring to honouring that, instead of the original project. |
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In the spirit of Elaston's comments (I hope), I had a very quick try at making an icon that's very obviously "Chromium", and still subtly "not Google".. I'm no visual designer so I'm sure somebody else will have a better idea (I was first looking into turning the center circle into another shape, like a octagon, but it looked clunky and would probably be lost at small sizes. Then I followed jstkdng's idea of including a "U" somehow) |
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For entirely original icon this project must have the entierly original name. On my opinion the furthest changes could take a place - modify original chromium icon. Edit: Aw.. Haven't notice
Then yeah, makes sense... |
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@jvzr |
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I've actually been thinking about this since I installed ungoogled-chromium a few months ago. I agree with @roshiajin-kunai that it should be green. It's clearly different and clearly chromium, just like the project. The chromium icon is a light blue, which is one of the three main colors we see (RGB) (over simplification); a light green is distinct from a light blue yet also RGB and recongnizably similar. It'd be interesting to see, perhaps, how a light green version of @jvzr 's design, which also incorporates the U, would look. |
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@jstkdng That was my original exploration but it didn't work at all, in my opinion: @u9000-Nine Something like that? (I tried to be faithful to Chrome's original green hues) |
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Maybe once a name has been chosen for the project, then focus on a new logo? The project is becoming more and more popular by the day and will probably get Google's attention sooner than later. |
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UnGoogled Chromium Free Icon - Download and Use |
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Where is the icon that come with this version? I mean the square with rounded corners ico, btw. The folder to be precise! |
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Ok so here's the first try that I thought was worth posting:
The black lines disappear at smaller sizes of course. But I like how they emphasize the wavy edges. The waviness either needs to be more regular or more random. @touba-denrael Don't worry, the sprinkles will return eventually. |
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So here's another try. With a new flavour!
Aside from the colour they are the same. Maybe the blue one needs a different colour background. The upper highlight is meant to show that the icing is shiny. I'm still trying to get rid of the sharp edge on the inner shadow, but otherwise to my eyes it's not too bad. It's been a while, so @PF4Public @touba-denrael @iskunk |
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suspected just like that... judging by eye only, for your cutting curve, you have used the measurements of your first round version from your #1756 (comment) image, is that [meaning not the later versions with the smaller hole] right?
these are important pointers, that is why the question above. another thing [under debian at least], icon sizes are varied between 1024x1024 pixels, 8x8 pixels [freedesktop icon sizes definitions could also be somewhat helpful]. am not experienced [yet] in exporting .svg format graphics from blender, but [if the results would be wrong or somehow unusable] with the help of the 1024x1024 raster image as base, could it be traced in inkscape easily or would it be the most daunting ugly brain eating task? edit: seems like succeeded perfectly in misplacing my [intended] reply... sorry. |
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No I always start with Inkscape and export to png. Inkscape uses (modified) svg as it’s primary file format. I’m not near my computer right now but I can post an svg later today.On Feb 16, 2026, at 6:07 AM, touba-denrael ***@***.***> wrote:
@breem42,
curve of the cut is a segment of an ellipse
width is the same as the diameter of outside of the chronut
height is the same as the diameter of the hole
suspected just like that... judging by eye only, for your cutting curve, you have used the measurements of your first round version from your #1756 (comment) image, is that [meaning not the later versions with the smaller hole] right?
way better at giving advice than I am actually doing it
these are important pointers, that is why the question above.
another thing [under debian at least], icon sizes are varied between 1024x1024 pixels, 8x8 pixels [freedesktop icon sizes definitions could also be somewhat helpful].
for evaluation purposes, we could stick to the 1024x1024 or 512x512 size in the raster format [this needs to be decided for the polygonal density of the biggest sized donut contour depictions in question].
am not experienced [yet] in exporting .svg format graphics from blender, but [if the results would be wrong or somehow unusable] with the help of the 1024x1024 raster image as base, could it be traced in inkscape easily or would it be the most daunting ugly brain eating task?
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You should be able to right click and download the svg. But whatever works. I’ve gotten an extruded object but I still don’t really know Blender so I’m struggling
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A better model, aligned pretty well. To the best of my knowledge the extruded svgs end up having to be converted into meshes, which I think leads to the crumbly edges. There's a lot of cruft in the file, and I think I got it all to line up by accident. |
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This one seems better. Here's a render |
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So here's render at an angle, with chocolate, plain, and mocha flavours. Maybe the chocolate can be darker. This is a tweaked PNG with the background removed.
Adding icing... it's going to take some investigation. It will have to happen in Blender, which I'm still lousy at. And maybe we don't need all that shading in an icon, unless @touba-denrael can make it work. The idea is to eventually have icing sort of like a "Bundt" cake. Right now it's not very good at a large size, and you can see the imperfections in the mocha section. ETA: @touba-denrael sorry to change everything so quickly. You were probably just putting on the last sprinkle on the previous idea. And the more complicated it is, the more time it takes to render. This new angle on things (see what I did there?) may not work out. I'm already having my doubts. |
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All the suggested icons include the "g" symbol.
This icon does not display images resembling the characters “9” or “g”. |
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there is content [.blend file plus couple of questions] in my earlier comment [indeed, my failure to put it in the newest segment of the thread]. |
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Thanks and keep up the good work.
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