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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Jonathan Davis < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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<http://www.snickers.org/%7Edavis/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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