On Aug 15 15:09, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/15/2011 1:52 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > >On 15 August 2011 18:52, Warren Young wrote: > >>I present to you now, my magnum opus: > >> > >> http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico > >> > >>Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. > > > >:) > > > >That is rather impressive, and yep, that's not a happy hippo. > > > >Is this just for fun or are you proposing this at the setup.exe icon, > > A bit of both. > > >in which case of course it would need further effort to make it work > >at small sizes. > > If this does win out over the current gray box icon, I'd say it > should be used as-is for 256 px, and can probably be made legible at > 48 px. At smaller sizes, I'd say the hippo will have to be evicted > from the box. I'll leave as an open question whether the 32 px and > below icons become hippo heads, or empty boxes, or C logos, or...
The problem for me is that the Cygwin C is only a sidenote now, and that it lost its color. The C is the central brand, so it should have a matching exposition. Only few users will see the 256x256 version of the icon, most will see the 32x32 or 48x48, and in these cases the simple box with C is clearer afaics. > This is posed 3D art, so now that I have the assets, I can re-pose > and make new renderings fairly easily. About 90% of the effort of > getting here was just bringing all the pieces together. > > I don't think this replaces the newly finalized C logo on the first > setup.exe wizard page. I think the box motif works best for the > .exe itself, the thing you click on to start unpacking things. Not so sure about that... http://cygwin.de/angry-hippo-setup.png I just hope the hippo is free art. I really like the 3D box, but I think it would be better to have a 3D Cygwin C hopping out of the box. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
