[Unison-hackers] Logotype design

[Benjamin Pierce]

Returning to the discussion about new icons for Unison...

>> Thank you for your inputs, really. To sum it up, I want to make a
>> little speech :)
>
> And after this speech, here is the icon.
>
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> To use it:
> Navigate to Unison.app, choose "show package contents", navigate to  
> Contents/Resources and replace the Unison.icns file with this one.
>
> To see the icon in use, the Finder needs to refresh its icon cache.  
> I could not find a simple way to do it, so what I did was copy  
> Unison.app somewhere else (drag and drop with "alt", which will  
> copy instead of moving), and this made the icon appear. I dragged  
> the application back, overwriting the previous one, to replace the  
> one with the stale icon cache. (All this won't be necessary when  
> Unison is built with this icon.)
>
> If Benjamin agrees, I'll update the subversion repository with this  
> icon.

As I might have said before, I'm not yet entirely happy with this  
one: Perhaps I'm stuck in an outdated system of design rules and  
can't look at it correctly (:-), but to my eye it is bottom-heavy --  
the U is squashed into the bottom of the circle (or sphere) and there  
is too much space above it...

     - Benjamin