Letters does not need to have an icon that looks like a mailbox, letter
slot, letterbox, etc.

Look at Adobe's icons, Microsoft's icons, or any icons from a company with a
few million to spend on designers to design them icons.

A stylized L is what I thought of immediately.

I pasted this before but apparently it went into a lot of junk mail folders:

 http://www.snickers.org/~davis/letters/letters_logo02.png

- Jonathan

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Robin Benson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 30/01/2010, at 2:32 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>
> > Firefox has a very distinctive name, and they created a good logo to fit
> that. Letters is not a distinctive name.
>
> OK, name change to FoxyLetters.app (that's not a serious suggestuib).
>
> > The NNW looks good at large sizes and looks like not much of anything at
> Finder list icon size (or even at dock size in my dock).
>
> It's getting subjective, but it looks fine in my dock on a MBP at quite a
> reduced size.
>
> > The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a stylized @ sign.
> SOmething based on the Zapfino @, maybe?
>
> Again, my personal view but @ doesn't do it for me at all.
>
> > I know NNW is quite popular around these parts, but I'm not a huge fan. I
> don't like any of its layouts, and I don't like how it loads pages into the
> list/preview window area, nor do I like how once you've loaded a window,
> your List/preview pane are now reduced in size until you close all those
> 'tabs' and then the list/preview suddenly pops back to the old size.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the app; but I don't think it's that
> great an example of a UI and it's not a UI I want in Letters. And yes, I've
> given it a few days to grow on me and it really hasn't.
>
> Straw man. I'm talking about the NNW logo (even the previous NNW logo).
>
> Whether NNW is a good app or not - on whatever basis - is not part of this
> discussion. Maybe a new thread?
>
> Robin
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