Trakt gets a makeover!

I thought I had toggled a setting or there was a Halloween theme going on as I was using the site at the time.

I like the colors, the purple accent looks good to me although I haven’t really used it long enough to know if I will adjust like others have mentioned.

I’m not sold on the logo though, I struggled to find it amongst my quick tabs, I do see what was trying to be achieved though, ticking off lists, shows and movies.

I think I still prefer the old icon maybe if that was changed to reflect the new color scheme.

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Wow! This is looking absolutely fantastic so far! Saw it change in real time. Love it, keep up the great work! There was even an animation to transform the old logo to the new one. That’s a sweet detail!

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The purple colors can be a little difficult to read in the site’s dark mode.

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:grimacing: I’m not sure… I won’t comment on the creative aspect of the logo but this feels like a makeover just for the sake of it. It looks like Trakt has lost its identity. I believe the logo could be refreshed or modernized, but it shouldn’t deviate more than 20-30% from the original or it risks becoming a unknown “brand”.

As for the new colors, I’m not sure how I feel about them either. For a regular user, it’s like YouTube suddenly going purple, Steam turning green, or WhatsApp becoming yellow. For people familiar with these apps, it wouldn’t be a pleasant change.

Edit: Also it’s shape, the circular version looks a lot better here.

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I feel like the purple is more difficult to read on the dark mode, but the white text with the new font on the dark background is fine. Meanwhile, the purple looks fine on light mode, but the new font is harder to read. And, I think if you’re going to have a workable UI, it needs to work well on both.

Also, perhaps I’ll get used to it over time, but it does strike me as less stylish and unique compared to the old one. It looks more like a logo I’d have on a to-do app, so it really doesn’t standout the same way.

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I like it overall. I will say, purple link = visited link in my head, so that’s something I feel I will need to get use to.

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I dig it. Purple is great and over the last 8ish years I’ve developed a bit of a negative association with red.

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Yes, PLEASE don’t change the logo on the iOS app! It would look like a ToDo app instead of Trakt. And of course color is everything when you’re tapping icons on your smartphone; we need the Red. (You may want to look at how Drafts (getdrafts.com) handles their iOS icons. They let people pick from many colors in Settings, as some like to change them for Fall or Christmas!)

Somehow the new logo doesn’t look like a T. I get the ‘checking off’ (‘ticking’ for British members) concept but it no longer resembles a T.

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My favorite color, love it!!!

Just looking at the logo so far. I love it. These comments made me flash back to like 10 years ago when you made the trakt 2.0 layout. And everyone missed the yellow and blue!

People will just news some time getting used to the new look and feel :smiley:

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wow a lot of hate about he new look :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I love it, the purple is awesome and looks absolutely fantastic in dark mode. The logo stands out, and the new animations on click are awesome. Fantastic graphic design. Do not change it, ot if a lot of people complaiing make options to change colors.

Love it!!! Great work !!!

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I think the new logo and theme looks good, but man I am going to miss the old one.

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Excited for what else you got in store for us Justin! :slight_smile:

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really sad about the rebranding.

the purple is hard to read

and the logo looks very generic

curious what sparked the sudden change of design…

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I understand that people don’t like the new color. I love it and the font I get used too it. I do think indeed that the Old Trakt logo was better. Maybe purplefy that one? But it now indeed look like a To Do app. I hope we ever get a theme system for Trakt, multiple themes and the user can choose it, maybe even an accent color? So that it is CSS only?

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Text and icons are being cut off on the Dashboard Page.
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I have a baaaad feeling about this. :broken_heart:

Now it looks like a todo list for instagram nonsense and the whole site looks like a custom css gone wrong.

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i hate it, can i get back the red please?

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The new color is cool, but this font makes my eyes hurt. Please pick some better one :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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I don’t think I like any of these changes, lol. The logo feels like a to-do app logo, font is fine I guess but hate the font color.

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