This post is about showing all the development for the creation of a logotype for the open source project Warthog, I will be specifying some technical points that were used to make the contribution, as well as a brief description of the project.
The owner of the project describes it in the following way:
Opinionated framework for building GraphQL APIs with strong conventions. With Warthog, set up your data models and the following are automatically generated:
* Database schema - generated by TypeORM
* Your entire GraphQL Schema including:
- Types to match your entities - generated by TypeGraphQL
- GraphQL inputs for consistent creates, updates, filtering, and pagination inspired by Prisma's conventions
* A graphql-binding for type-safe programmatic access to your APIs.
* TypeScript classes for the generated GraphQL schema for type-safety while developing.
* Automatic validation before data is saved using any of the decorators available in the class-validator library.
@goldcaddy77 , Owner of the project "Warthog"
During a search process in Github I got this project that needed a logo to be identified, the owner made an Issues to request the help of a designer to create the logo, he got in touch with the owner requesting his permission to contribute to the project , which responded positively so between hands to work and began with the process of creating the logo.
At first the project owner sent a logo suggestion based on line drawing which can be appreciated in the Issues, however I dared to go a little further and started to make a design on the paper using some basic drawing tools and the result was great.
Once I made the design on paper, I went to the Illustrator and started to make all the tracings and vectors to digitize the design, at the beginning I wanted to give it a solid color but after seeing it I tried to use a subtle gradient that turned out great. The first sample sent to the owner of the project was replaced adapting to the owner's requirements which was to make a change in font font that was made and the GraphQL API logo was incorporated. Here I present part of the design process along with some extra design properties.
Part of the main benefits of this contribution was to have created a new logo for a project that is under development and that did not have a designer in the team that created the logo, therefore my contribution adds that extra content that is of great importance to be able to identify the project. Below are other benefits provided by this contribution.
*Flexible in any size.
*Easy to remember.
*It can be used in different colors.
*All files in vector format for future modifications.
