I don't think adding shoulders would make it clearer it's a duck, since ducks don't have shoulders. The only distinctive features, the beak, will never be recognizable in a front-facing silouette.
Håvard Pedersen http://fuzzy76.net/ On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 17:52, Peter Hosey <bore...@adium.im> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2012, at 04:06:56, Håvard Pedersen wrote: >> IMHO, the duck just doesn't translate well to a silouette. That looks more >> like a person silhouette vs rorschach blob. > > It's an unfair comparison, since the Duck silhouette presented is missing its > shoulders. Imagine comparing that human silhouette to its head portion only; > it would be like a person silhouette vs. a rough circle. > > I agree that of those designs, that person silhouette is the strongest and > that Duck silhouette the weakest, but a better Duck silhouette is possible. > (I'll leave it to the icon designers to decide whether pursuing one is a good > use of their time.) > >
