Logo and site design

Question

Assalam O alaikum everyone and hurray! we have made it. Now the next part is to make a logo and design of the site. Please provide fresh ideas for it. Thanks

Answer 1

Calligraphy is very popular in Islam. It would be awesome if we can have لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله written in calligraphy. Also, it would look good if we do a little calligraphy on the right and left corners of the site. Thanks

Answer 2

I have new ideas about header and up-vote down-vote buttons. How about using the ornaments between surahs in a mushaf as a header, and write Islam in it in a arabic letters fashion. To illustrate what I mean, I used my superb graphic design skills and made this;

Ok, I know that looks really bad, but blame it on my lack of graphic ability. In the hands of an professional, the idea can turn out to be good.

And about up and down votes, why don't we use the ayah separators in mushafs? Something like this;

Inspecting the design in different mushaf could turn out to be a good idea in my opinion.

Answer 3

For the logo, I prefer the usage of tulip, crescent and calligraphy. Something like this for example:

And for site design, I prefer aquatic/light-blue/light-green color theme, as it feels relaxed and peaceful. For example, look at this (tulip is a bonus :P ):

Answer 4

Asalamu wa alaikum,

I brought this question up in the chat, goldPseudo,yasar11732, and me worked something out.

Here is what goldPseudo said:

In keeping with the calligraphy theme, I would lean towards making things look resemble a book; white to yellow "paper" color for the background, with fancy colorful calligraphy-borders. Similar to what you'd find in a decent quality Qur'an.

Here is what Yasar said:

I am for calligraphy + crescent + tulip :)

I kind of gone for a brownish color.

Answer 5

In addition to using Arabic calligraphy as Start up Crazy has suggested for general styling, we should probably use a crescent for the logo of Islam.SE, as it is well recognized as a symbol for Islam that is also accepted by the vast majority of Muslims.

Answer 6

For the color theme, I suggest using a light-green coloring with yellowish white background.

On the left hand side of We can put a logo.

Logo idea

We can use calligraphic writing of the Kalima Tawheed (La-ilaha-illallah..). The writing should be clear enough to be recognized the kaliman, meaning it should not be more art than it's message. I'm against rounding of the writing also. But, A half round circle writing may not be bad.

On top of the Kalima, We can use a palm tree and a crescent on the upper left side of the tree.

Vote buttons

For upvote and downvote icons, I pretty much liked yasar's answer.

Answer 7

In this answer, I am attempting to suggest what the logo and site design should be. I am combining the already existing (and up-voted) suggestions into this one answer. I intend to attempt to make this answer a full suggestion of what this site might look like entirely (every aspect of it). If you like it please up-vote, if you think something needs adding then please either give a comment or (if you can) edit it.

The Logo

I believe the logo should be the name Allah:

I pick this for a few reasons, one believing in Allah is the base of faith and Islam, every Muslim, no matter their sect must believe in Allah, this is one of the things all so called sects of Islam have in common (and to take it further, the believe in Allah/God is what all three Abrahamic faiths believe in). Secondly, Fahad Uddin, in His answer, mentioned that calligraphy is popular in Islam, so the above suggested logo/picture is a mild, easy to read (Insha'Allah) calligraphy form of the word Allah.

I think the logo should be in the middle of the site's header, with the following text (which I think should be a bit smaller than the width of the logo) under it:

Islam الاسلام

The Tabs

What I mean by tabs is the Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, Unanswered, and Ask Question tabs. I think, since the tabs are six all together, I think they should be split into three. So what I mean is, they should be placed under the logo like this:

Questions -- Tags -- Users --Space (about the width of the logo)-- Badges -- Unanswered -- Ask Question

As for what the tabs should loo like, I think they should look like a rectangle, I think the color should be light brown.

Background Color

I think the back ground color should be beige. Perhaps a color a yellowish color which you may sometimes find in a Quran:

as for the:

Voting Buttons

I believe yasar11732 's suggestion is excellent for the design of the voting buttons: