Re: [Audacity-devel] Proposed Tango-style icon for Audacity

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

Steven,

Thanks very much for your contribution.  You and Ryan are very talented 
and I sincerely appreciate the effort.  In fact I admire your work on 
Mozilla.

Personally, I've grown rather fond of our current logo.  And the fact is 
with tens of millions of downloads, our current logo is very well-known. 
  It's not just the headphones - it's the colors and the contours of the 
shapes that make it recognizable.  While I would be interested in seeing 
an updated logo, I would like to see it preserve more aspects of the 
original design.

One logo redesign I'm really fond of is FreeBSD's:

   http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/640-1.png

Would you be interested in trying a version of the Audacity logo that 
has the same basic colors and closer to the same shapes, but more of a 
modern 3-D look and tilt to better match Tango icons?  Your submission 
is definitely a great start - and I can see how next to a bunch of other 
application icons, this one "fits in" better.  But compared to our 
current logo, it's far less colorful and less powerful - and I think 
less distinctive.  I hope you understand that we need a single logo that 
works not only as an application icon, but as our primary branding 
identity, too.

If you look through our mail archives, you'll see some other attempts 
along these lines.  We haven't come up with anything we're happy with yet.

Besides the application icon, I think that Audacity's user interface 
could use some design work!  Would you be interested in helping with 
some of the user interface icons and other UI art?

I hope other Audacity developers will add their opinions, too.  And 
thanks again for your submission.

- Dominic


Steven Garrity wrote:
> I've been a happy Audacity user for a few years and have been involved 
> in the Tango project.
> 
> For those of you that haven't heard of it, the Tango project exists to 
> help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free 
> and Open Source software. You can learn more about Tango at 
> http://tango-project.org/
> 
> A couple of us (myself and Ryan Collier) have created a proposed new 
> icon/logo for Audacity based on the emerging Tango style guidelines 
> (http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines).
> 
> A before/after look at the new icon/logo can be seen here:
> http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/tango/audacity/audacity-icon-proposal.png 
> 
> 
> and a stand-alone copy can be seen here: 
> http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/tango/audacity/audacity-128.png 
> 
> 
> What do you (the audacity-developers) think? If you like it and are 
> interested in using it for Audacity, we'd be glad to license it in such 
> a way that you'll be able to use/release/distribute along with your 
> existing codebase.
> 
> Cheers and keep up the fine work on Audacity,
> Steven Garrity
> 
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