On 14 May 2013 18:05, Borys Jurgiel <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there still a possibility to keep the the present logo? If so, I'd allow to > vote for it too (if not in the pool, at least here on the ml). IMHO none of > them is really worth the change - I'd rather cancel the competition and hire a > good proffesional designer. >
I realise this is late in the game, but I've got strong reservations about how well #50 will work as an app icon. It's going to need substantial changes to create a good icon from it. My main concerns are: 1. The solid near-black color doesn't work well for an icon. If you compare it against a selection of well-designed icons, the solid color looks flat and lifeless: http://imgur.com/5Xmd6TA (quick and nasty photoshop job, ignore the artifacts). You can also see that having a solid dark color like this doesn't work against a dark background. At the minimum it will need some outline/shading/shadow/highlighting effects to bring it to life and modernize it. 2. The shapes in the "Q" will also need to be modified to work for smaller icon sizes - directly scaling down the logo causes the icon to almost disappear at small sizes: http://imgur.com/F3IOTE1 . This may be fixable by increasing the thickness of the circle and exaggerating the size of the green arrow for the icon, but again, it's going to require a lot of tweaking. My final concern is that we haven't seen a version of this logo without "Quantum" in it yet. It's hard to get a good idea of the final product when a major change like this still needs to be done. Again, I realise I'm voicing these concerns late, but I thought I'd point them out in case it influences anyone's voting! Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
