So i have never really designed anything before. I have an idea of what an interesting logo could be but i have no idea what i am doing… I did this in google drawings 
, so this is in no way a final idea, just a point for the community to build off of.
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Hullo Citizen Scientist and Etarcians,
I think it would be wonderful, if we could get a logo designed and approved before Unification day for the Etarc Hub. I have scanned through the topic for elements people where looking for in a logo, (which logo is debatable 
), but I did’t discriminate. We were collaborating quite nicely. Then we stalled, for lack of leadership, i guess. So hear I am, I call for a rally of the Artist and designers of this forum to aid a local hub… please. 
I think we are very close. Does anyone have anymore ideas. Now, that our home is two regions and our capital will sit in the Fire fly star chain, We could add those elements.
I believe someone said that all the previous logos did not scale well. So what sizes should we aim for?
Some bullet points
- We need a logo right now. (Flags and crest can come later and have more detail be larger.)
- logo needs to look nice on a letter head, think postage stamp. (or a Pog!
'd) - under 2 inches (5 cm)
- Simple/minimalist
- This is just for ETARC HUB, no division of etarc yet.
Below are a few poll to help capture the the essence of what Etarcians are after in a logo. The majority of the elements listed come from this topic.
Words to include:
- “ETARC”
- “E.T.A.R.C.”
- “ETARC HUB”
- “CSD”
- “CITIZEN SCIENTIST DIVISION”
- “CITIZEN SCIENTIST”
- “ECSD”
- “E.C.S.D.”
- “EST. 2017”
- “2017”
- “Explorer Tactical And Research Community”
- “Explorer Tactical And Research Congregation”
- “Explorer Tactical And Research Center”
- Acronym for Etarc, just none listed above
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Elements to include
- A light bulb
- Sunburst/sunburst
- The firefly star chain
- Portal
- Just the portal ring
- 16 Glyphs
- The Waking Titan decoder
- The atlas symbol
- The atom symbol
- The ham radio symbol
- NMS beacon
- Edison tower
- Solar ellipse
- similar to the old etarc logo
- clouds
- Corona mass ejection
- Communication station/ball
- planets/moon/systems
- Three triangle glyph
- 16
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General border/boundary shape
- hexagonal
- Circle
- Diamond
- Square
- Triangle
- Star
- Rectangle
- symmetrical
- asymmetrical
0 voters
Colors to included
- rgb value A 24-190-2
- rgb value B 117-0-159
- rgb value C 209-3-130
- rgb value D 0-205-245
- rgb value E 222-14-22
- black
- white
- gray
- blue
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Thanks,
Just another Instigator,
Sir Oops
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In the “words to include” poll, request a change for ‘Citizen Scientists Division’ to ‘Citizen Science Division’ (changing SCIENTISTS to SCIENCE).
Mainly to reflect the name we have here, and also to acknowledge an openness to non-scientist Citizens who enjoy sciencing.
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I’d start with @chelofellow and his logos. Work from those. Just my two cents.
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Since Portal is high on the list and the idea is to simplify, something like @Clemm portal image in their Profile picture might work.
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Whatever design is chosen, I suggest it look good at varied sizes. That may mean paying close attention to color contrast as the size reduces. I did a variation of the prior one I commented on to show the image changes as it reduces in size. In order to make the image content clearer, I had to remove the glyphs and text and change some background colors for better contrast, for example. Colors would likely be different. I also created only a rough image for comparison and discussion purposes. I’m not a graphics artist.
Using the former base image, it would seem that the background color (orange here) should show through the portal middle “open” part, not use a different color (as is used below).
This is a concept only, not a suggested final. … Some things to keep in mind.
Also, we could use text with larger versions, then omit that area for smaller sizes. Legibility is a key.
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I really do like what @chelofellow logos look like. I believe I’ve seen the high contrast solution for small images before, now that you mention it @Clemm . Looks, promising. Here some of my brain storming, nothing special, the last row looks awful to me now. I was trying to get the star chain in there some how.
How do we represent the star chain?
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@Sir_oops - Of your bunch, I prefer 7D, though the background color gradient reminds me of water & slime. LOL. I’d prefer the colors to mimic exiting a planet’s atmosphere. Atmosphere color at the bottom, then gradient up to local space color (or black) at the top. Instead of a true gradient, you could use layers (strips) of colors that change from atmosphere to space – an option that works well even with JPEGs and size changes.
I’m also not loving the [Hello Games’] “Grant-inspired” sick yellow-green skies on some planets. At least I’m consistent. 
To get “star chain” in the logo, the upper part of the circumference could superimpose a thin “chain” of links with stars at the link join points. … Voile … “star chain.” The stars would need to be large enough to be clearly evident at smaller sizes.
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With any iconography, the hierarchy of elements will inform the ultimate design solution. So it is on us to determine what exactly are the most important elements to include in our logo, then rank them by importance and design accordingly.
If we go by the poll in the thread, we’ve got the following hierarchy:
50%- similar to the old ETARC logo (Edison tower with HAM radio graphic)
37%- Portal
37%- 16 glyphs
37%- the Atlas symbol
37%- the firefly star chain
37%- planets/moon/systems
25%- light bulb
25%- just the Portal ring
25%- starburst effect
(excluding everything below 25%)
The single most important graphic element is the old ETARC logo.
With that settled, we will need to make a decision on what is secondary in importance. Is it the portal graphics (including the glyphs), the Atlas symbol, or star chart elements (Firefly star chain, and planets/moon/systems)?
Now we can combine some of these elements effectively to say more with less, but it gets tricky. I played around with combining the portal and the Edison Tower in the first iteration of the ETARC CSD logo (seen above in this thread) and it works alright.
@Sir_oops also hits on this with his combination of the star chain element into the portal graphic- I LOVE this idea. It really works well conceptually- portal to the stars, unification of many to one, a gathering of travelers.
I am digging the shape of 2A (the circle hexagon combo)! Makes a really interesting frame, will definitely work with that.
Do we have any good (accurate) star charts of the Firefly star chain?
If so, that could work well as a background element behind the portal/Edison Tower graphic…
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I could lay out a point cloud type model in CAD, that way we can look at It at different angles. Or there is a couple pics out there.
Pictures and video of star chain
No Man’s Sky—v1.3 Screenshots & Art - #983 by tajay
We haven’t picked a capitol yet. if it is off the chain and has a good vantage point of the star chain that would be ideal.
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You could use a basic starchain type image as viewed from off-centre/below to create a taper effect going upwards… a homage to the original ETARC radio tower logo.
This could have a portal in the background as it seems to be a popular idea.
Do we actually need to have a border? It could simply be a chain of stars overlying a portal.
This link should have a few pics of the starchain when it was first found.
Post number 5
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I found the chain by accident. The second picture is quite accurate, as I set it up vertically (I guess you could spin the top photo). But I think it only shows the top half.
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Another idea I had for including in our logo are the last 4 glyphs for our portals.
Dragonfly Rocket Tree Bird Tree seems to pop up in every portal in our location…sort of like an area code. With several of the ideas submitted, there is an interest in adding the glyphs. Well, those 4 are quite relevant to our hub and by limiting our logo glyph useage to only 4 glyphs, we can fit them in more strategically/larger, allowing for different logo sizing without losing detail.
Just another idea.
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I always loved their outfit. I really want to cosplay as Nada…
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Hello my fellow citizens!
It has been a while since I didn’t take any news from my favourite community.!!
As I am catching up on pretty everything, does anyone think these aligned starts are part of the next patch? Has anyone followed these and find something weird?
Back on track in D-1
Until than, you take care of you my Fellow Travellers!
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A lot of people call this a tree, I see it as a little guy lifting his arms in victory. (or the atlas symbol and a flux capacitor)
No one is really posting any new Logo submissions. Perhaps, we can take a break from that. And try our hands at a flag design. Specially, since we have the capital, now. Whats a capital without a flag flying over it (at least in spirit). Maybe, this is where we can use the Star chain ideas.
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