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 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com >
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