has wrote: > Definitely getting there. Though the top snake could do with being > a bit lighter. The icon is, first and foremost, a statement that > "this is an application"; the snake logo is just a subtle hint to > say, "by the way, it's built in Python". The eye should be drawn to > the "A" first, then pick up on the subtle 'hint' behind it, and > finally come to rest on the "A" again. > > Right now the top snake is about 40% grey and still fighting with > the "A" for the eye's attention; I'd take it to 30% (I've tried it > here) and maybe knock 2% off the bottom snake just to preserve > noticeable contrast between them.
> ... > One last thing: try the egg with the logo positioned vertically. > Having the egg itself on the diagonal works well, but putting the > snakes on the same diagonal makes them hard to read [1], and causes > the strong visual bottom-left-to-top-right diagonal line to > completely dominate the entire image. > > Putting the logo vertically (I've tried it here) makes it easy to > identify and the contrast of diagonal and vertical gives the whole > thing a bit more of a 'jaunty' look, rather than just looking a bit > drunk. Plus it improves consistency with the rest of the icon set > (where the snakes are always the same vertical orientation, either > literally or implied by perspective). Alright, I've tried those two changes: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/python/prettified-py-icons.png What do you think? _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
