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Re: 256x256 px icons
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:49:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons
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On 1 August 2011 21:05, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> > On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> >> On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> >>> Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing
>>> >>> fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16
>>> >>> showing the Cygwin symbol only.
>>> >>
>>> >> Not bad, but the green border around the C is too dark to set the
>>> >> C apart from the background. ÂThe border needs some light grey which
>>> >> allows to recognize the C.
>>> >
>>> > I'm not sure how to do that, but the attached attempt turn up the
>>> > saturation of the green outline.
>>> >
>>> > It also reduces the blurriness of the whole thing a bit. Apparently
>>> > it's better to convert an SVG to a high-res bitmap and resize that
>>> > down with a bitmap program such as Paint.net instead of converting the
>>> > SVG straight to the target bitmap sizes (at least when using
>>> > InkScape).
>>> >
>>> > The two attached icons differ at size 32: cygwin-terminal2.ico has the
>>> > Cygwin-in-terminal there, whereas cygwin-terminal3.ico has just the
>>> > Cygwin symbol. Size 32 shows up in the Windows 7 taskbar.
>>>
>>> Further to those two, here's one with the glowy Cygwin symbol all the
>>> way from size 16 to 64. It's a "remastered" version of the one in
>>> cygutils; a bit bigger and with the aforementioned brighter green
>>> outline around the "C".
>>
>> Thanks. ÂBut, hmm. ÂThe longer I play with it, the less I like the green
>> glow. ÂIt adds an eerie touch to the C
>
> Now what's wrong with that? Cygwin - mean and a bit eerie. ;)
>
>> and it still doesn't set the C
>> really apart on dark backgrounds.
>
> I disagree, looking at a desktop with a darkish picture and dark grey
> taskbar and window borders.
>
>> I think we should go with a grey outline.
>
> I did eventually work out how to turn the outline of fatbuttlarry's
> icon grey. See attachments.
Having used both variants for a while, I agree that a grey outline
does look better.
Andy