Re: [Roadmap-general] icons, once again

[Joshua L. <jo...@wi...>]

I agree with Morten on this.  I like the idea of the folded map. but I
think the curvy road works better as a program icon.

Also, in the grand tradition of OSS - we could host a logo contest :) but
that might slow down the release of 1.2 - we could also just move forward
with existing graphics and do a big marketing launch when Danny releases
navigation (2.0?)

I might not be terribly coherent right now or even have any good ideas -
apologies.  My wife and I just had our second baby boy on wednesday morning
(10AM Pacific) and I haven't slept much.

(my penny's worth)

josh

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:06:36 +0100, "Morten Bek Ditlevsen"
<be...@te...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> My two cents:
> I think the scaled down icon still look 'heavy' in the left side. I
> imagine
> it would be better if the blue color was toned down too.
> 
> Other than that I must say I think that the 'Curved road' icon on Paul's
> page makes a better symbol for the program. It's scales well and my guess
> is
> that everyone immediately associates it with a navigation program. I
think
> it's simple and instantly recognizable.
> 
> Sincerely,
> /morten
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Paul Fox <pg...@fo...>
> wrote:
> 
>> fmiser wrote:
>>  > > danny's points are well taken too -- my design (don't know
>>  > > about your rework, yet) doesn't scale down to 32x32 well.
>>  >
>>  > Maybe you guys have too many pixles on your screens. *smile*
>>
>> no way.  can't be done.
>>
>>  > Attached is a 32x32 and 64x64 and the inkscape SVG I made them
>>  > from. The map is lightly reshaped, the lines are gone from the
>>  > "folds", and the colors are changed a bit. The SVG is even more
>>  > simplified. That is, fewer objects.
>>  >
>>  > Comments?
>>
>> i still like it, and it certainly makes the small versions more
>> recognizable.
>>
>>  >
>>  > > (i'd be happy with the road sign motif, too, if someone can
>>  > > come up with something more universal to put on the sign.)
>>  >
>>  > Are Arabic numbers universal enough? My international
>>  > experience pretty limited.
>>
>> they might be universal enough, but what would we do with them?
>>
>> maybe we don't need the sign at all?  without the sign, maybe
>> we'd have room for a couple of forks in the road, or some other
>> intersection of some sort.
>>
>> paul
>> =---------------------
>>  paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 45.0
>> degrees)
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>>
>>
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