My Suggestions for the Discord Redesign!

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Hello to whoever may read this!
I've recently seen this tweet regarding discords new re-design, I like to see Discord working as hard as it is, however I feel like I should talk about a few things:

  1. Suggestion: The New Discord Blurple
  2. Suggestion: The New Font
  3. Suggestion: The New Clyde
  4. Actual Discord Suggestion: Themes!

Alright now lets begin with Blurple.
Discord's Blurple has been with me ever since I've joined Discord, I even made a PFP using the Blurple-a-fier when it was discords birthday a few years back!
However, I'm not sure if I like the new Blurple or not, to me it feels more like a Dark Blurple and less like how the Old Blurple was Bright, however Both of them are colorful!
Maybe if there was an in-between of these colors, maybe it'll look better with the new Font and Logo? I'm unsure, however I'm one to see if my mind will change a few months later.

Onto the Font: I think it should be CAPITALIZED like the previous font, and there's something strange about it, something that makes it feel stretched from normal, can't quite put my finger on it though so back to capitalization.
It feel's weird to see the dot over the I (A tittle if you will) and for the rest to be lowercase, maybe it would look a bit better if it was Capitalized again. I'm not a designer and this might stick to me after a few months, but feedback is feedback, hopefully it's helpful!

And finally Clyde:
I don't feel Clyde is in their best state and I think I know why people (including me) dislike this new redesign of them so much, and it's because they're too symmetrical.
Clyde with their old asymmetrical look felt proper within discord, honestly it feels proper with how asymmetrical discord servers are!
But now it feels like Clyde is too symmetrical, too smooth and round, and even feels like they're more compact. I think that's why Clyde doesn't look too good within the re-design. Maybe more iterations at HQ needs to be done, I do think that Clyde needs more work to find a proper balance.

Now to an actual Discord suggestion!
THEMES!
Most modded discords are the reason people use themes on the regular, I think now that you've made this sudden change without the public given time to react or even Vote on them, I think you should add this as a feature to give people the Old Discord Theme back they might want!
A perk to this is that new features could be developed and the Theme's could adapt to the new extra shiny buttons and bobs you might add! (sorry bob)

This is probably blowing dust into the wind, but hey, I'm willing to see if Discord Acknowledges my suggestions. I enjoy using discord, and willing to stick with them and try to give my ideas on things!

Thanks for reading!
- A Box

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  • ☆Gecko☆

    Agreed! Seems like there could be some potential here.

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  • duxe

    Themes should have been a thing ages ago. In my opinion a cool idea would be making some kind of Steam Workshop type thing, where people create themes in some external tool and publish them on the workshop.

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  • Box

    Updated and added why Clyde is a bit off for me, forgot to add that when I first posted this

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