I said what I said
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What's the asterism?
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It's a typographical symbol consisting of three asterisks β β it has literally and visually nothing to do with the fediverse, except some fickle worrywarts campaigned for it to replace the rainbow pentagram a while back.
And it needs to get in the sea.
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Oh, was this because of the association of pentagrams with Satanism?
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How can we get the fediverse pentagram into nerd fonts? They have the mastodon icon
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no, because "its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button. Itβs also only available in image form, not as a typographical character."
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I like the idea of using a symbol but its ugly sadly
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Now, if we could get the Unicode Consortium to add the graphical logo, I'd be sold. But if we must pick an existing character, I for one prefer the outlined star (β) much more than either the asterism (β) or the pentagram (β§).
Unlike the pentagram, it aligns a lot better with inline text and looks nice and smooth. It's also far less commonly used or overloaded with existing readings.
The asterism would be easier to unambiguously read or write by hand though! That's its one pro.
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If you want to be taken seriously you should re-word your issue and the title.
Be explicit about:
- what icon you prefer,
- include a graphical example
- highlight the issues with the current icon,
- include an example of the icon you disagree with.
The issue you've linked is literally just a complaint with zero context.
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See, there's a typographic argument I can get behind. Having worked as a magazine layouter and kerning pincher, horizontal alignment is a very valid point.
As for handwriting, that's barely an issue since we're talking online text, but let's go: Is an asterism easier to write by hand? Not really, you have to squeeze in three asterisks in the height of one line. They'll likely render as blobs. Could you draw a star easier and faster? I think so.
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If you want to be taken seriously, or at least get a constructive reply β don't open with "If you want to be taken seriously". It reads really condescending, and I'm going to have to assume that's your intention.
So here goes:
Assume that even if you don't immediately understand the context, one probably exists outside your frame of reference. If the post catches your interest, look up that context. Otherwise, move along.
Don't expect other users on a discussion board to take you to by the hand and explain the circumstances leading up to this point in history. If you do, please don't act like you're the keeper of the style guide (see preamble).
For full clarity, I did not post this for you as a bumper introduction to the backs and forths of the Fediverse symbol feuds, but to signal for those already in the know that the frontline is shifting.
TL;DR β this wasn't for you, don't demand that it be customised to your measures.
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From what I can see a wordpress plugin uses an icon you disagree with. You'd rather they use something else. Rather than approach them constructively you post your emotional response as an issue on their repo? What response are you expecting from the maintainers?
feud
frontline is shifting
Why all the militaristic language?
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There's an icon request on Font Awesome's github, go give it a vote/thumbs up!
(edit: first posted link was a duplicate request, it has been changed to the recommended one)
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Stars are perhaps even more common in written text for highlights and annotations than typed text, at least around here. I can draw a star much faster than three asterisks. But it wouldn't be very easily distinguishable as the Fediverse star. And that's the same between the regular sharp and pointy star and the rounded outline one.
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Oh the Predator target marker!
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Would it help if we got together a zipped file of the various Fediverse logos as SVGs and linked it in over there? The less work they have to do the more likely it would be to get adopted.
