New Proposed Icon for Xabber

This is my new proposed icon design for the android application "Xabber", designed using Adobe Illustrator. The features of this app is right down below:

Open source Jabber (XMPP) client with multi-account support and clean and simple interface. Being both free (as in freedom!) and ad-free, Xabber is designed to be the best Jabber client for Android.

Features:

• Modern material interface
• Multiple accounts support
• Quick swipe between chats
• Rich visibility settings for contacts and groups
• Compatible with all standard XMPP servers
• Multi user chat (MUC)
• Chat history
• Export history to SD card
• Server side message archive support
• Inline hyperlink support (web pages, YouTube, e-mail, phone numbers, XMPP Uri)
• Avatars
• View contact's information (vCard)
• Grouping contacts by groups and/or accounts
• Contact list management: add/remove/edit contacts, groups, subscriptions
• Contact search
• Notification setting for each contact
• Notifications based on key phrase
• Full Unicode support, chat in any language
• Portrait and landscape views
• Stream compression (not all servers supported for now)
• Resources/priorities
• OTR encryption
• TLS support
• Legacy SSL support
• SASL support
• Check for the server certificate
• SRV record and DNS round robin support
• Client software icons in contact list (Adium, Empathy, Gajim, Gtalk, iChat, Miranda, Pidgin, Psi, QIP, Xabber, Xabber VIP)
• Typing notification support
• Message delivery receipts
• Shortcut to a chat on home screen

Design Concept:
The idea was to create a simple and modern logo design. By utilizing the current's idea of a lightbulb and reinventing it into cleaner and sleeker look and retaining the original color scheme.

Icon Sizes
96px

72px

48px

32px

Mockup On Mobile Device:

Font Used: Calibri Light

Benefits / Improvements
Design is cleaner and modern and brings a fresh look to the Xabber brand. It is much easier for the eyes compared to the current logo.

Tools
I used Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 version for both design and presentation. Here are some screenshots for proof of works.

Original files
You can download all the original files here:
Image Sources:smart phone , android home screen
Font source : Calibri Light

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