Welcome to the official branding repository for the WoW Emulation Open Source Community! 🎨
The WoW Emulation project is dedicated to preserving and enhancing the World of Warcraft experience through open source emulation. As a community-driven project, we believe in creating a welcoming and professional appearance that reflects our commitment to quality and collaboration.
We strive to look nice and welcoming for you, our beloved community members!
This repository contains all the visual assets, logos, and design resources that make up our community's visual identity. Whether you're a developer, designer, or community member, you'll find everything you need here to represent WoW Emulation with pride.
- GitHub Organization: github.com/wowemulation-dev
- Official Website: wowemulation.dev
We welcome design contributions from our community! Whether you're creating new logos, icons, banners, or other visual assets, your creativity helps make WoW Emulation more vibrant and engaging.
- Fork this repository and create a new branch for your designs
- Create your designs using open source tools (we recommend Inkscape for SVG work)
- Follow our guidelines:
- Use SVG format for scalable graphics whenever possible
- Include source files for any designs
- Document any fonts or special requirements
- Ensure designs align with our community values
- Submit a Pull Request with:
- A description of your design and its intended use
- Preview images in your PR description
- Any relevant context or inspiration
- Open and Welcoming: Our designs should feel inclusive and community-oriented
- Professional: While fun, maintain a level of polish befitting our technical excellence
- Scalable: Think about how designs will work at different sizes and contexts
- Accessible: Consider color contrast and readability
Our branding assets are designed to be flexible and scalable across all platforms where the WoW Emulation community has a presence.
We primarily use the SVG format for our visual assets. This provides several advantages:
- Scalability: Assets look crisp at any size, from tiny favicons to large banners
- Editability: Images can be modified programmatically for different contexts
- Flexibility: Easy to generate variations with different colors, backgrounds, or styles
- Open Source: Works perfectly with open source design tools
Our branding assets serve the community across multiple platforms:
- Project Logos: For GitHub, our website, and community use
- Repository Icons: Consistent branding across all our GitHub projects
- Social Media: Avatars and profile backgrounds for community presence
- Documentation: Diagrams and illustrations for guides and tutorials
- Events: Banners and graphics for community events and announcements
We're proud to use exclusively open source tools for our design work:
- Inkscape: Professional vector graphics editor for creating and editing SVG files
- ImageMagick: Powerful command-line tool for converting and processing images
No commercial or paid software required! This aligns with our open source philosophy and ensures everyone in our community can contribute. If you appreciate these tools, consider supporting their development! ❤️
The convert.sh script automates the generation of various asset formats from our source SVG files, including:
- Web-optimized PNGs in multiple resolutions
- Favicons for browsers
- Touch icons for mobile devices
- Platform-specific formats (Android, iOS, etc.)
Copyright © 2023-2024 Daniel S. Reichenbach <daniel@kogito.network>
This repository and its contents are provided under the terms of the MIT license.
You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with this repository, which can be found under LICENSE.md.
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