These are my takes on alternate Sync logos for Lemmy (I made that rat from a while ago)
The logo for Sync is so tied to Reddit for me personally, that it was hard to think of ways to translate it to Lemmy (or the Fediverse overall).
Orange and Blue are signature colours for Reddit, but Lemmy doesnt necessarily have a colour scheme. Nor should it. that's up to the instance operators to choose, making their community unique.
I also like the general Fediverse pentagon logo, but it can look quite busy...
I did what I could. I'm an average designer at best ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm happy to know it's not just me. Everything else was fine (non-sync user, grain of salt), but I feel breaking up the lines breaks up the middle image in a way that's more confusing to read, and the bottom right is a bit uncomfortable.
Same.
Either just swapped color and the same shape. (Middle left)
Or those bit distinct triangles remind me the ears of the lemmy logo. (Middle middle)
These look really great. Well done on iterating while still keeping the "sync feel". I think the default logo should stay the reversed colours of the sync for Reddit logo but I would love to see some of these as alternate icons!
Only little note is that the bottom left should have 1 more purple leg (the one going straight up should be purple).
It's also more obvious that it's constructed from the arrows of the original logo, compared to the middle bottom one that's more overlapping/intertwining.
It was either focus on the arrow motif or Fediverse symbolism.
Bottom right is cool in a vacuum, but there's like... a shade of swastika to it? I dunno, maybe that's just extremely online of me, but I'd be a little hesitant on it for that reason as compared to middle bottom.
The one that strikes my fancy the most is middle right, maybe just because it reminds me a little bit of Strava. Maybe the Fediverse colors could be applied to that one in some way, maybe teal and blue on top, red and orange on bottom, and purple as a fill? Or blue and purple on top with teal as a fill. In my head that looks cool, but in practice it might look like total ass. Worth trying anyway imo.
I like both the 2nd and 1st ones on the 2nd row in that order. Still looks similar to the app we lost, but the new colours are good for showing that Sync is still about doing the same for Lemmy. The bottom row is more noisy to me but as long as it isn't that last one (sorry it does look a bit too much like some kind of fascist symbol) I am good with what you go with!