Good morning Fedi friends!

[mrshark@mathstodon.xyz]

@_elena @mjj

Unfortunatly, my initial read is HYPE and I didn't see HOPE until I read the explaining text. But else it looks good.

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@mjj @_elena my cynical brain keeps wanting to auto correct to "HYPE"

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@_elena

May be slightly darkening the inner part of the logo, to make the outer part more visible ?
Else, I would have recognize a O.

[joergi@chaos.social]

@_elena how about changing this to FEDIVERSE instead of Stack overflow
and the logo?

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@mjj @_elena have you tried initial cap only? like "Hope"

[danyork@mastodon.social]

@_elena I also really like the general idea and love the focus on hope, but like @mjj my brain flipped a bit between “HOPE” and “HAPE”.

(But I don’t see any other helpful logo ideas - https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/history-fediverse-symbol/ - so this is perhaps the best to go with!)

And now I want one of these shirts, too! 🤣

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@danyork @_elena @mjj maybe a circle around the Fediverse symbol would help?

[jeremiah@alpaca.gold]

@_elena I'm more a fan of the ⁂ asterism @FediverseSymbol and Mastodon seems to be adopting it too

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

[thisislieven@c.im]

@_elena Alternative option?

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@_elena I try to look at it outside of the Fedi Day, and I don't think it would work well to communicate "fedi" since no one who doesn't already know it knows the logo.
Just "for the insiders" I find it cute though

[bjornw@mastodon.social]

@_elena at a first glance I thought it was "hype" instead of hope.

[kdude@mastodon.social]

@_elena you could add, starting from that "O" going downwards: Open

[frankdmt90@mastodon.uno]

@_elena this is insane!! Great!! 👏🏻

[wouterkobes@mastodon.social]

@zipkid @_elena H⁂PE looks like you are blurring a slur

[bovaz@misskey.social]

@_elena@mastodon.social I'm also on the "HAPE" boat...

I'm bad at design, and don't know what kind of freedom you may have with the design, so spitballing here:
What about having the t-shit as an entirely flat color, with the logo centered, either
- small, just under the neck
- center of chest area
- small, right on the navel (this is weird, but definitely different than anything I've seen from other tech swag)

maybe write something ("hope", or even "fediverse") around the neck, or the hems.

[frankdmt90@mastodon.uno]

@thisislieven @_elena other alternative is the fediverse logo as P hole.. 🤣

[thisislieven@c.im]

@FrankDmt90

Like so? I don't hate it but the focus is on the word rather than the logo, which feels like the wrong balance to me.

@_elena

[bschelm@mastodon.social]

@_elena I would buy it.

[thisislieven@c.im]

@FrankDmt90

Actually... (what do you mean, I should get to work?). Building on that idea, this might work.

(I shall stop spamming the thread now)

@_elena

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@_elena need an option for I love it! 😃