fediOrigami/README.md

![](fediverse-icons/party_circled_purple_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_circled_yellow_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_circled_blue_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_circled_green_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_circled_red_48.svg)

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](https://activism.openworlds.info/@dsfgs) in collaboration with /Freed Creative/ and others, worked on a Fediverse icon. This is the result of much feedback, review and iteration. 

![Fediverse icon display showing the version of the icon for more websites with a more muted color palette](posters/fediorigami_organic_display.jpg)

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' ( ![](fediverse-icons/party_duotone_purple_16.svg)  ![](fediverse-icons/party_duotone_blue_16.svg)  ![](fediverse-icons/party_duotone_green_16.svg)  ![](fediverse-icons/party_duotone_red_16.svg) ) 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.


# Line-styled

![](fediverse-icons/party_line_16.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_line_28.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_line_32.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_mixed_onLight_purple_48.svg)![](fediverses-icons/party_mixed_onLight_blue_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_mixed_onLight_green_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_mixed_onLight_red_48.svg)


# Black-and-white / greyscale

![](fediverse-icons/bnw_small_line.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/bnw_small.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/bnw_medium_line.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/bnw_large_mixed_a_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/bnw_large_mixed_b_48.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/bnw_large_mixed_c_48.svg)


# Peertube

![](fediverse-icons/party_red_profile_32.svg) ![](fediverse-icons/party_red_wide_32.svg) 

Peertube is the Fediverse's answer to YouTube. See [joinpeertube.org](https://joinpeertube.org/) for more info about it.


# How to Draw

![Poster showing how to draw the Fediverse icon](posters/how-to-draw_fediverse-icon_400px.png)


## If you are looking for a mastodon icon for your website, you probably want to use a fediverse icon instead.

Coming soon... PNGs.

Copyright DSFGS Copyleft GPLv3 for Fediverse AGPLv3 licensed softwares for everyone.