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My first attempts were with brighter +colors, so I chose a goldish grey; the main thing which would make it +look like a gear instead of a sun would be to add depth or shadows. +But the 20x20 is very limitating in this regard. + +About the border, I don't really understand what you mean. I find it +clearly visible on 48x48, still visible enough on 32x32, and invisible +in 20x20 (there a sort of greyish shadow around the gear, but +definitely not a border). When I look at the icons on the original +sizes, I don't find the border frustrating. + +>><i> +</I>>><i>  - one version with most of the Mageia logo and a wrench as if it was +</I>>><i> used to "repair" or "customize" Mageia. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This runs into the original problem we had, not very visible at the smaller +</I>><i> icons. It's better than what we had, but the wrench also gets a little lost +</I>><i> in a gray background. +</I> +Indeed, the 20x20 is a bit hard to read. The colors could be adjusted +according to the palette, to have a wrench which stands out on the +grey KDE theme. The first that comes to mind would be to colorize the +wrench in blue, but there already so much blue in Mageia! :) Maybe +purple, or something like that? But I fear that a purple wrench would +look a bit strange, and maybe would stand out too much. + + +To design an icon which would be good in 20x20, we should ask +ourselves: how complex can be an image made of 400 dots? Is it really +possible to have both a part of the Mageia logo AND an element which +suggests the idea of "tools", "configuration" on the same 20x20 icon? +The icon for systemsettings has no reference to KDE... +Hum, just looking at the icons on my K Menu, I saw that Network Center +(in Tools > System tools here) has a pretty clear icon with a hammer +and a globe. The hammer's handle is orange and is clearly visible. +Maybe we could use a hammer or a screwdriver, or any tool that can +have a colored handle, along the Mageia logo? On the Network Center +icon, the hammer is titled by 30° with regards to the vertical; it +does break the verticality but permits to have a big enough hammer +(the more we tilt it, the more we have to reduce its size to fit in +the icon). + +Just random ideas from my cup of coffee :) +Rémi +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001313.html">[Mageia-artwork] MCC icon (again) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001315.html">[Mageia-artwork] e17 themes +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1316">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1316">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1316">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1316">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">More information about the Mageia-artwork +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |