new community icon

[burr86]

I have a really, really long post about sponsored communities that we're still working on, but we wanted to go ahead and post an announcement about one of the changes we made already. A lot of people brought up concern about being able to distinguish between sponsored communities and regular communities. We were already planning on changing the

Comments

[ter369]

Thanks so much for the update(s) and consideration of LJ users' concerns.

[windswept]

As if.

[spug]

Nice touch.

[windswept]

At least they got the green=money right.

[larkspurlazuli]

I always associate green with poison.

[windswept]

That works too.

[sarmoti]

Wow, it's such an obvious contrast that even a color-blind person would able to tell the difference. Oh wait....

[bradfitz]

We're open to alternatives, if you wanna whip one up .... ?

[burr86]

I was going to suggest a 720x90 banner ad as a replacement for the 16x16 icon. That's gotta be clear enough a distinction, no? ;)

[windswept]

Dollar sign.

[imc]

Any particular reason why it's green?

[jiggery_pokery]

Wikipedia suggests an answer, as ever!

The metaphor doesn't stretch outside countries where our currency is habitually not green in colour. Taking that attitude to an extreme, though, would require the community icon to have an overlaid ¤, and I would idly wager that the solution proposed would confuse forty times fewer people. That crazy ol' generic currency symbol hasn't really caught on in wider usage, somehow.

[kutsuwamushi]

I appreciate that you're trying to communicate with us without all of the business rhetoric.

About the icon change: I wish that there as more difference between the two icons than just the color, which doesn't really stand out that much. More design should go into it.

I'd suggest a skull and crossbones or a emoticon making an "ew" face, but I'm sure that wouldn't fly with the sponsors.

[windswept]

Dollar sign.

[kutsuwamushi]

A dollar sign would be great.

[altamira16]

I don't know. Mr. Yuck or dollar sign?