I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too.
cheers
[1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_ve...
Great reasoning and that is also an awesomely "inky" looking icon... I say +1.
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:09 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too.
cheers
[1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_ve...
Just a small suggestion: could you use black color from tango palette or anything which is a bit brighter? I always felt that the logo doesn't fit in because it's too dark. Sample: http://wstaw.org/d/809c
On 04/30/2009 09:09:01 PM, Jakub Steiner wrote:
I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too.
cheers
the icon is great, but i agree to Jaroslaw.
2009/4/30 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...400...>
Just a small suggestion: could you use black color from tango palette or anything which is a bit brighter? I always felt that the logo doesn't fit in because it's too dark. Sample: http://wstaw.org/d/809c
On 04/30/2009 09:09:01 PM, Jakub Steiner wrote:
I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too.
cheers
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On 2009-April-30 , at 15:09 , Jakub Steiner wrote:
I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too.
Sorry not to have followed on that on the mac side. I saw the icon on your blog a very long time ago but never got around to include it. Independently of what will happen on other platforms, this new icon is now committed to SVN for OS X (it is better than the current icon which is different from the other platforms already anyway).
I personally love the inky feel that the very black color + purple glint gives to this icon. I almost smells indian ink. I find the Tango palette one to be "flatter" even though I recognize it might fit better with the rest of the UI.
Thanks.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2].
About the icons Bitmap vs Vector issue, I was wondering... Is there a way to have some parameters of a svg picture (let say stroke width of some given element, for example) depend on a given specific variable like "pixelsize", which could be defined according to the rendering size. Or, could there be one ?
Stéphane
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 09:55 +0200, Stéphane Gimenez wrote:
About the icons Bitmap vs Vector issue, I was wondering... Is there a way to have some parameters of a svg picture (let say stroke width of some given element, for example) depend on a given specific variable like "pixelsize", which could be defined according to the rendering size. Or, could there be one ?
Yes. Or rather, there are a few things being looked at.
There had been a <multiImage> element proposed, but it appears to not be going in. One alternative that was mentioned was css media selectors.
Hi folks!
Thanks for the feedback. While the usability of the icon on very dark backgrounds is indeed limited, taking away the blackness from the ink feels like taking away the essence. I've instead added added more of that blueish specular highlight [1]. With Tango we usually address this with the inner highlight, but it makes things look a little odd on the high-detail version. But you are right, a fairly monochrome icon will always have an issue on a specific background color.
I've also created a few OSX mimetype icons as requested[2]. I've pulled some of the mimetypes out of my, erm, pocket. So if you have a better mimetype:extension mapping than this [3], I'll fix.
cheers
[1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip (same URL) [2] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/OSX-inkscape-mimetypes.tar.bz2 [3] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/filetypes.yaml
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Jakub Steiner -
Jarosław Foksa -
JiHO -
Jon A. Cruz -
Joshua A. Andler -
myller -
Stéphane Gimenez