One thing that bugs me about this particular idea is that it's basically a visual pun, and may not work in other languages. It all depends on people making the association between "letters of the alphabet" and "letters in the mail".
On Jan 29, 2010, at 09:23 PM, Steven Joubanian wrote: > <Icons1.png><Icons2.png><Icons3.png><Icons5.png><Icons4.png> > > granted these are just mockups, but i still like the flurry of letters the > most > > On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:00 AM, River Brandon wrote: > >> it seems to me that if we're talking about a top-notch mac application, it >> should have a top-notch presentation. i would hate for it to make a poor >> first impression, and the icon is a big part of that. it will set the tone >> for a web site and be the face of the app. we don't want to set the bar low >> for the ui and functionality, why should we do that for the icon? >> >> >> On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:30 PM, John C. Welch wrote: >> >>> On 1/29/10 11:27 PM, "Jonathan Davis" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> or http://www.snickers.org/~davis/letters/letters_logo03.png >>>> <http://www.snickers.org/%7Edavis/letters/letters_logo03.png> >>> >>> Maybe with an L as an alpha with a semitransparent solid dark green color, >>> the size of the icon? >>> >>> I’m looking at my dock, and at the size my icons are, the letters at the >>> bottom would be a blur. >>> >>> -- >>> John C. Welch Writer/Analyst >>> Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
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