[Unison-hackers] Logotype design

[Benjamin Pierce]

> Hi Benjamin and thank you,
>
> the reason is, that the shape of U is pasted on the sphere. So, there
> is no way to make it "on" the sphere at the same time as "in" the
> middle of the sphere.
>
> For me, this is better, because it makes stronger the idea of "two
> worlds connected". If the U will be placed in the center of the cube,
> there will be no message to the users. It will be simple "U in a
> sphere".
>
> That is my point of view... :-)

Fair enough -- it seems you are more focused on the idea and I am  
more focused on the realization!  That's a legitimate difference of  
taste... but I have to admit I still prefer the current/old Unison  
icon to the new proposal.

Best,

     - Benjamin


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> 2008/1/18, Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu>:
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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 one: Perhaps I'm stuck in an outdated system of design rules and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
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