From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23674 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2011 09:43:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 22530 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2011 09:42:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:42:42 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8D3F32C0636; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:42:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:43:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons Message-ID: <20110729094239.GD19240@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4E2E0847.3060004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110726110134.GU29727@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E2EB916.6000501@etr-usa.com> <20110727074143.GV29727@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E304B49.2070308@etr-usa.com> <4E307EEA.7040404@etr-usa.com> <20110728090844.GA6200@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E327A08.108@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4E327A08.108@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: > Collecting all Corinna reply answers here: > > On 7/28/2011 3:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >It seems that black was a bad choice for the Cygwin C. > > Is there a reason we cannot change it now? I don't see that Red Hat > has filed a US trademark on the logo. It's not about Red Hat. The C may be ugly, but it's something which is now recognized as Cygwin. > Is the new color scheme on cygwin.com just someone's disconnected > idea, or is it part of the product's current identity? Perhaps > green and black is démodé? cgf just modernized the web page. It has nothing to do with the colors of the C. > >the longer I see the 48x48 icon on my desctop, the more I like > >it. > > You mean the second version, with the bright Cygwin logo alone in > the terminal window, rather than the original "with text" composite? Right. > We can mix-and-match. We could go for a lone Konsole icon for the > smaller sizes and add the Cygwin C only at larger sizes, for > example. That's one of the freedoms you buy when you include > multiple sizes in a single icon file. I'd prefer to go for a lone C in the >= 32x32 sizes. > At the largest size, we'd have enough resolution to add some text > back in. Imagine a green glass tty look with, say, autoconf output, > scaled for a proper 80x25 grid? Sounds nice, but it distracts from the message (the C). > >What if the green glow around the black C glows a bit more? > > Totally doable. The main limit is taste, not tech. That's what I played with in gimp, but the results didn't look overly well. That doesn't mean much, though. I would like to see this once done by a professional, just to be sure it's unbearable. :) > >What if the green glow is replaced with a pretty light grey glow, just > >to help distinguishing the C from the background? > > Yes. You also have choices of mattes, strokes, bevels, etc. Oh, I don't know how this looks like. If I had examples... > I'm also a fair hand with 3D, which gets you specular highlights, > shadows and suchlike, which can help a logo pop off a dark > background. Sounds good for 256x256, but how feasible is that in 48x48? > Is there official vector logo art I can use? I don't think so, sorry. > >It would probably be easier if I could handle gimp better > > Let me handle this, ma'am. I'm a trained professional. >:) Yessir! With pleasure, sir! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat