Everyone, we need to spruce the place up, so we wanted to reach out to you all for submissions for the icon and banner. Here's the idea: submit icons and banners (SFW please). I'll leave this stickied for 72 hours, then we'll pick the most popular of each by upvotes.

I couldn't find specs on icon dimensions, but it appears icons are square and tend to look best at least 256 x 256. Banners tend to be...rectangularish. Here are three banner examples: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 )

As always, let me know if you have questions.

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[–] WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

On the default lemmy ui at least, it looks like icons tend to be either ~20x20 when they're the small circle in the actual post, and 120x120 when they're in the community view as the 2 main sizes, and 24x24 also shows up in the community list section. Figured I'd mention some sizes in case it helps anyone designing an icon!

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Folks might want to see how these look at those dimensions:

20x20

120x120

[–] WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Good idea yeah! The 20x20 one will look a little more crunchy than the actual icon would end up, since the actual image file is still higher quality than 20x20 in terms of pixel density, its just the displayed height/width that gets smaller.

The 20x20 one will probably be closer to the same quality as the 120x120 one you posted (probably a bit more blurry), and the 120x120 size will be closer to the full quality one.

[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

Thanks for bringing this up! I was skeptical anything remotely complex would look good in the 20x20 when I first saw the original response