On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: > Collecting all Corinna reply answers here: > > On 7/28/2011 3:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >It seems that black was a bad choice for the Cygwin C. > > Is there a reason we cannot change it now? I don't see that Red Hat > has filed a US trademark on the logo.
It's not about Red Hat. The C may be ugly, but it's something which is now recognized as Cygwin. > Is the new color scheme on cygwin.com just someone's disconnected > idea, or is it part of the product's current identity? Perhaps > green and black is démodé? cgf just modernized the web page. It has nothing to do with the colors of the C. > >the longer I see the 48x48 icon on my desctop, the more I like > >it. > > You mean the second version, with the bright Cygwin logo alone in > the terminal window, rather than the original "with text" composite? Right. > We can mix-and-match. We could go for a lone Konsole icon for the > smaller sizes and add the Cygwin C only at larger sizes, for > example. That's one of the freedoms you buy when you include > multiple sizes in a single icon file. I'd prefer to go for a lone C in the >= 32x32 sizes. > At the largest size, we'd have enough resolution to add some text > back in. Imagine a green glass tty look with, say, autoconf output, > scaled for a proper 80x25 grid? Sounds nice, but it distracts from the message (the C). > >What if the green glow around the black C glows a bit more? > > Totally doable. The main limit is taste, not tech. That's what I played with in gimp, but the results didn't look overly well. That doesn't mean much, though. I would like to see this once done by a professional, just to be sure it's unbearable. :) > >What if the green glow is replaced with a pretty light grey glow, just > >to help distinguishing the C from the background? > > Yes. You also have choices of mattes, strokes, bevels, etc. Oh, I don't know how this looks like. If I had examples... > I'm also a fair hand with 3D, which gets you specular highlights, > shadows and suchlike, which can help a logo pop off a dark > background. Sounds good for 256x256, but how feasible is that in 48x48? > Is there official vector logo art I can use? I don't think so, sorry. > >It would probably be easier if I could handle gimp better > > Let me handle this, ma'am. I'm a trained professional. >:) Yessir! With pleasure, sir! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat