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Social icons on a website or eepsite are often important to communicate where else we exist online. Previously, fedizens were left with two choices; use an inaccurate or deceptive icon based on a specific type of fediverse server (eg. Mastodon), or a gaudy icon with negative connotations. Most chose the former. This elevated one implementation of Fediverse software, at the expense of others. It created a false impression of fediverse's topology and had a negative effect on the fediverse generally.

Since Feb 2021, a supporters group in collaboration with /Freed Creative/ and others, worked on a Fediverse icon. This is the result of much feedback, review and iteration.

This icon pack, called "#fediOrigami", is based on an origami boat turned on its side. The overlapping, semi-transparent "folds" are their own entities, but interact with each other to form an 'F' and also create a silhouette of part of a star. A star being an homage to the previous but seldom-used icon design (a connected five pointed star).

*Some of the 'party' ( ) versions are shown here. See above list for different sizes and the 'organic' colored version.

(NOTE: Icons are Plain SVG but have yet to be properly optimised. The Scour (v0.31) export feature in Inkscape is broken. That project is hosted on MicrosoftGH (https://github.com/scour-project/scour) and our graphic designer was disinterested in contacting a Microsoft user.