Hello everyone,

This community is only a few hours old, and already there is a meta post ha ha.

I was just thinking that the EU flag doesn’t include non-EU countries such as Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Ukraine, Iceland, Albania, Georgia, etc.

Maybe a more “map-based” logo like this one could be considered too?

  • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    You’re right but the flag is easy to read even at low resolution. Not sure that a map would make for a good small icon.

    Even in all black, it’s kind of hard to see at low resolutions (ignore the superimposed flag, this is just what I found on the internet):

    Outline of European continent

    • Servais@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
      41·
      5 days ago

      Thank you for your comment!

      As a comparison, the way !yurop@lemm.ee icon looks:

      I guess the shape of the continent is unique enough to be distinguishable

      • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        This is what that looks like in Photon (e.g. at https://p.feddit.org):

        And in the bottom bar, next to each other:

        (Granted, it’s a little unfair, since Photon in particular appears to scale the icons in a dumb way.)

          • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Ooh, thank you! Sorry for the way I worded it. Anyway: To me, it looks weirdly pixelated, as if either:

            • It doesn’t take into account high-PPI screens and scales the image file for a 96ppi screen and then the browser scales it up to display size or

            • It just takes a file with huge image resolution and the browser scales it down quickly on the fly.

            You can look at my screenshots.