From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16558 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2011 09:15:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 16531 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2011 09:15:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:14:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 16890 invoked by uid 13447); 29 Jul 2011 09:14:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.33.33.107]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Jul 2011 09:14:52 -0000 Message-ID: <4E327A08.108@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:15:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons References: <4E2E05DD.40101@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <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> In-Reply-To: <20110728090844.GA6200@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00160.txt.bz2 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. Even if they had, it's usually better to file without reference to color. Ref: http://goo.gl/MXIbK 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? > 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? 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. 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? > The lighter the terminal background gets, the less it's recognized > as a terminal background. True. The only reason to do that is to improve contrast, and as you point out, changing the foreground brightness instead also accomplishes that. > What if the green glow around the black C glows a bit more? Totally doable. The main limit is taste, not tech. > 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. 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. Is there official vector logo art I can use? I can do my own tracing, but if there's something official, I'd rather start from that. > It would probably be easier if I could handle gimp better Let me handle this, ma'am. I'm a trained professional. >:) (One of my day job hats is graphics-monkey-by-default, 2D since 1995, 3D since 2007.)