First, we'll need an HTML skeleton. We'll use 2 groups of identical div
s for the sides of the logo and one div
for the head/body.
HTML Structure
<body>
<div id="discord-logo">
<div class="group-left">
<div class="wing-top"></div>
<div class="wing-mid"></div>
<div class="wing-bottom"></div>
<div class="eye"></div>
</div>
<div class="group-right">
<div class="wing-top"></div>
<div class="wing-mid"></div>
<div class="wing-bottom"></div>
<div class="eye"></div>
</div>
<div class="head"></div>
</div>
</body>
CSS Styles
The CSS begins with styling the head as an oval with a drop shadow on the bottom:
body {
position: relative;
background: #040714;
margin-top: 50px;
}
.head {
position: relative;
z-index: 5;
width: 322px;
height: 216px;
top: 22px;
left: 85px;
background: #404eed;
border-radius: 50%;
box-shadow: inset 0 -12px 0 #00000026;
}
Then we'll add some shared styles for the other components:
.wing-top,
.wing-mid,
.wing-bottom,
.eye {
position: absolute;
background: #404eed;
border-radius: 50%;
z-index: 10;
}
Next we'll start creating the left "wing." The top piece will be an oblong oval transformed and skewed:
.wing-top {
height: 283px;
width: 99px;
top: -47px;
left: 65px;
transform: rotate(56deg) skewY(7deg);
clip-path: inset(7% 0 61% 0 round 24px);
}
Once we apply that clip-path
rule above, the shape will be cut away to look like this:
When we set the color of this shape to our bluish/purple then the overlap will blend in with the head/body. For the middle part of the wing, we'll add a similar shape then apply another clip-path
rule:
.wing-mid {
left: 81px;
top: 12px;
height: 263px;
width: 101px;
transform: rotate(12deg);
clip-path: inset(7% 13% 15% 0 round 25px);
}
With the clip-path
rule applied:
Then we'll add the bottom piece of the wing with this same procedure:
.wing-bottom {
width: 309px;
height: 116px;
top: 144px;
left: 15px;
box-shadow: inset -14px -7px 0px 3px #00000026;
transform: skewY(342deg) rotate(38deg);
clip-path: inset(83px 118px 0 76px);
}
With clip-path
applied:
Next we'll add a colored circle for the eye:
.eye {
background: #040714;
width: 61px;
height: 70px;
top: 116px;
left: 159px;
}
Now all we need to do is reflect the .group-right
element with an inverse scaleX
:
.group-right {
z-index: 10;
position: absolute;
left: 493px;
top: 0;
transform: scaleX(-1);
}
And we're done!
Here's the final code if you'd like to play around with it yourself: https://stackblitz.com/edit/web-platform-u1uzd3?file=index.html
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