Hey there. This is beautiful work!

I can't speak for all the other admins but I have strong opinions on the logo. To me, the logo needs to be both bee and haw and I don't want it to feel watered down or presented in a way to be appealing to all the masses. To me it's meant to be cute, radical, and kinda in your face with it's absurdity. I don't think it can be done in such an abstract way without losing too much character. But that's just my 2c.

The themes are quite clean, however, which is definitely what I think we need to reduce visual clutter and make things easy to find. Thank you so much for putting this all together, it's great work!

I think it looks like a butt sitting on a yellow table.

This is seriously impressive...... I love it! I'm the director of a design agency as my day job and work with branding often. If someone hit me this as a client refresh or new brand option, I would be pumped. It's clever, memorable, current and fresh.

I don't know if it's the look Beehaw are going for (I don't know enough about the instance :) but this is strong enough to stand as primary brand mark for sure.

Only thing I would mention (which I think I have seen on the thread) is there may be some web accessibility issues on the colour contrast side of things, I would look to touch these up if it went into production.

You may be on the product side of things, but this is legit very accomplished work!

Kudos my dude..... An epic job ;)

I think the logo is cool and I like the dark theme a lot! If I can provide one constructive comment, perhaps the light mode yellow-text-on-white could have a little more contrast to increase readability of community names.

My design background is in making silly memes... maybee the bee could have a little more haw in it so I "designed" this:

No offense to you personally, but I really don't like that kind of logo design. I feel it lacks personality and uniqueness. I've seen an awful lot of companies redo their logos along those lines and they were almost invariably worse than the original. This trend needs to stop.

Using hexagonal shapes and yellows for UI elements is certainly fitting, though.

The white text on yellow background is hard to read.

I would suggest to change the yellow parts of the light theme to another colour, like brown or dark gold/mustard

Yellow is a really difficult colour to work with when it comes to an accent in theme.

Instead of the backgrounds, being black and white, I’d suggest a charcoal a tawny; give it a more homely feel; which is what Beehaw aims to be

I like this because I can see the bee in it (when I know it's meant to be a bee) but I think it's lacking some more defined features because currently at a glance it just looks like a region of colour.

White on yellow is awful for readability and accessibility. Otherwise, looks pretty nice!

In the dark theme, the super bright yellow is distracting focus away from the content.

This is absolutely gorgeous! Simplistic but also detailed in a nice manner. You have my vote for making this the official logo!

Beautiful work! All the other admins will be waking up soon and, I'm sure, will want to discuss.

Love it <3

Amazing work

I just need lemmy to be more horizontal; use 100% width and use less lines.

I really like the theme! I'm trying to create my own theme for fun and the finalized code for html/css is a MESS. Makes me want to rip out my hair it's so messy.

Just to pile on with everyone else, but I really love the themes, especially the dark one!

The light theme is good, although I would recommend changing the yellow text to a darker shade, or changing the color entirely (yellow on white is really hard to read). And the dark theme is perfect! The icons are amazing, too :)

I like this so much! I hope you end up doing that second pass to try incorporating the hat.

The icons are very distinctive but their colours feel off to me regarding bees.

Love this! Such a sophisticated design.

I like the layout/theme changes, but still prefer the existing logo tbh - it kinda has more character.

These look brilliant, great work!

Beautiful work!

i like the designs you've made for the webpage! the accenting colours really makes a difference. i didn't realise how much i'd appreciate a redesign until i saw https://crystals.rest

i like the approach you took with the icon, although my favourite component of the current icon is the goofiness of it. i think a lot of that got lost in your redesign. or as others have put it, "it's lacking some haw" :p