Logo for Ratty [HELP NEEDED]

[orhun]

Hey all!

I will be releasing ratty in the following weeks. It's an unconventional terminal emulator and there is a chance that it might get some attention. But before that, I'm working on the branding of the project which includes designing a logo (for the documentation and website).

So... in case anyone wants to donate their art, this is the place for it!

Question: I will be designing a logo for Ratty and what am I going to get in return?
Answer: a personal and firm handshake from me if I see you in person, universal respect in the open source community and a chance to get more recognition with your art

Some themes/keywords/ideas: low poly rat, 3D rat, rat, rat spin, command line, terminal, text, cute rat, poorly drawn rat
Inspiration: take a look at @ratatui's logo (Ratty uses ratatui under the hood)

Feel free to post your ideas/sketches/logos/whatever you have here! 🧀

Edit: No AI contributions pls!

[benjajaja]

the ratspin cursor you already had looks pretty cool!

[Strophox]

 ratty
 _   _
(_)_(_)
 (~ ~)
==\t/==

[Strophox]

Sidenote: Inspired by Joan G. Stark's ASCII rats, with added details such as t for snout and ~ for eyes (befitting of TTY/cmdline theme?). Just a small ASCII logo but I thought it was cute enough to leave here :)

[cenonym]

Following up on my comment on X, here's the gnatty ratty with the original drawing, vectorized version, and two 32px pixel art variants. Tried to maintain the grungy feel in the pixel art while still reading as a rat, but I'm not sure if it's the way to go

[sermuns]

i really like the pixelated one!

[Mjoyufull]

i think having a shell line next to the rat in the free space plus keeping the hand drawn look of the well hand drawn one would be lit asf

[sermuns]

inspo: https://models.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/3dmoviemaker/asset/336213/

[cenonym]

This is it, doesn't get much better

[Strophox]

I typically never engage in real life Among Us / any sort of drama, I just wanted to try and say one last thing:
It's (imo) in your hands to make the lives of many people in the future easier/less mistrustful, and it doesn't cost you much except for not pressing 'enter' on a post that insists 'no AI used' + an AI-edited image

[Strophox]

I circled back on ratty's connection to the TTY / shells (and the ASCII logo I dumped earlier :P) Was pretty fun to design as I went along. Maybe a bit overboard on the gimmicks tho, sorry:

*1 More image available;*

(Also the first time I got to properly use GIMP after having relied on paint.net for far too long...)

[Strophox]

More Sidenotes: I've dabbled in design stuff but don't have practice with logos yet; So despite keeping it minimalistic (limited palette, details) this may already be too complicated for e.g. miniature scales and would have to be simplified. Also this technically started as a clumsy GIMP mockup so for a clean vector version one might want to trace it in Inkscape anyway

[orhun]

I think this is really promising, I like the 2D + 3D aspect of this!

Could you maybe experiment with this further? Some points of feedback:

• We could potentially change the ASCII art to:

This is an original art designed by one of my close friends :)

• Maybe less flashy colors? I like the yellow but the cyan feels out of place.

• Maybe try a pixelated font on the keys too?

[Strophox]

Thanks for the workable feedback! I followed up:

• Pixelated font was a good idea, I used Monocraft as base for now.
  • (Previously Roboto Mono, cuz I didn't think too hard about it)
• Changed monitor+key colors to versions where they're both white / or cheesy yellow.
  • (Previously cyan, inspired by the flashy/bloomy presets of cool-retro-term and meant as color contrast to the cheesy yellow)
• Swapped in the suggested logo.
  • (instead of the previous rat ASCII art - but doesn't compare in terms of simplicity to yours. C·>_ :)
  • Note that I tried doing a clean pixel art trace, but in the process noticed it didn't seem to originally be pixel art. ^{If I didn't know any better, I'd have suspected it's AI 👁️👁️💧}

*3 More images available;*

[orhun]

This is much better imo! Thank you for the new design 🧀

I like the full yellow version without glow. Can you also remove the glow from the ASCII art and make it smaller on the screen?
P.S. I can also make the updates and try some other variants if you could share the GIMP file :)

[Strophox]

Sure thing, here are two versions without any glow, and with term art scaled smaller (in two ways, since not sure how much smaller you meant):

I think this is shaping up to look pretty nicely. At the beginning I thought the cheese TTY might be over-the-top but you haven't complained yet ;)

For the GIMP file (/further tweaks?...) I'll take the initiative and contact you on Discord since GitHub doesn't support .xcf.

(tho TIL they support a billion other formats...)