[Unison-hackers] Logotype design

[Vitezslav Valka]

Ok :-) Your choice...

have fun!
Vitezslav...

2008/1/18, Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu>:
> > 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
>
>
> >
> > Vitezslav
> >
> > --
> >  BcA. Vitezslav Valka
> >  vitezslav.valka at gmail.com
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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 one: Perhaps I'm stuck in an outdated system of design rules and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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