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Re: 256x256 px icons
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:07:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons
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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. But, hmm. The longer I play with it, the less I like the green
glow. It adds an eerie touch to the C and it still doesn't set the C
really apart on dark backgrounds. I think we should go with a grey
outline.
Corinna
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