https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41484
--- Comment #28 from Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 11831 --> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=11831&action=edit symbolic variant from gnome-icon-theme courtesy Mizmo (Máirín Duffy of Red Hat) I asked a few other designers who work in open source to comment. Georgia Bullen wrote: "Hmmm... Well there are the options of just stick figure gender-less icons e.g. http://wikieducator.org/images/1/16/Dummy_user.png and if you avoided colors, and went with gray or something like that then it wouldn't even have gender color implications. Another design practice that I'm a fan of is to go with more abstract user icons or animal icons e.g. github's https://dribbble.s3.amazonaws.com/users/8063/screenshots/873671/github_icon_vector_shape_teaser.png Or this awesome site: https://diy.org/ which uses animal avatars to avoid issues with COPA for children. Hope that's helpful! -georgia" Máirín Duffy of Red Hat wrote: "The best gender- and race-neutral icons of people are basically abstract head + shoulders or an abstract face in b&w. One of the links you posted in the bug had a few good examples: http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/garageband.gif http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/myspacenophoto.jpg http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nopic_192.gif http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/vimeo.jpg http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/identica.png http://www.murketing.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/npr.gif FWIW the icon you guys are using now is one of the old gnome-icon-theme icons. I am attaching a copy of the same icon from the newer gnome-icon-theme, symbolic variant - it's licensed GPL, I've pasted the link with license details below: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/tree/COPYING You may of course feel free to use it! ~m" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
