4:09 a.m.
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...
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5:31 a.m.
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...
6:08 a.m.
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
8:28 p.m.
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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12:37 a.m.
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
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4:55 p.m.
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
5:28 p.m.
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.
7:49 p.m.
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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