![]() ![]() Massimiliano Gubinelli was because it looked fresh and clean compared to The entire brand identity of my shareware around those icons.Īs you might recall, the reason you and I chose this particular icon by When the Oxygen icon set came out, I had what I wanted-and I've built The years because I never felt I had the right brand for them. I've changed the icons of my own shareware programs a lot over It's hard to build, hard to find the right look and feel, the right Lines you suggest? An evolution, as opposed to a total break?īrand recognition is definitely "worth something"-it's worth a lot. Head to look good at 512 pixels, and perhaps subtly update it along the Is there an icon designer out there who can re-render the current Gnu Lost track of why re-branding is even necessary. It's been impossible to come up with an icon that conveys what Emacs is beyond simply "editor", and to make it stand out in the Dock.Īmid all the back and forth and different icon ideas, I must admit, I've But at this point, I'm good with a revision of the exisiting icon. Also, following the Apple guidelines is an important consideration for a program that is explicity designed as a Mac-like version of an app that's already available for OS X in its plain cross-platform form. I had hoped we could come up with something that was more expressive of what Aquamacs was for or about, especially with a mind for new users. We're now in the company of a program like Adium (where the green duck icon doesn't really connect to anything). Nobody's even quite sure what to call the existing icon - horse, bison, etc - but that hasn't hurt its appeal, apparently. It's not practical to give Mac ports/builds of GNU programs a gnu icon (even with a fresh design for each distinct program).īut it has become apparent as we've crafted other options, and collected input on them, that the distinctiveness of the icon is more important than the connection it makes to the app's function or name. The list of "GNU Projects" at lists 340 software packages, of which 40+ have names beginning with GNU (and Emacs isn't one of that subset). Not only that, but GNU is nothing particular to Emacs. To the new user who isn't familar with GNU Emacs, the GNU connection is not apparent or important. Our app is Aquamacs Emacs, but the icon is a gnu. Textwrangler has a W in rope, so that connects to "wrangler". A few of the less direct icon metaphors that have come up: Transmit - a truck delivers physical items, like FTP delivers data files Cyberduck - who knows what the program has to do with a duck, but the icon certainly connects to the name. Almost all app icons display something related to the application's function, or at least its name. A subtle refreshing of it might make sense,Įspecially to make it render nicely at 512 pixels, but scrapping it ![]() Think the clipboard is the strongest one, but I prefer the original iconĪbove all of them. It would make no sense to change them just because Apple's HIG'sĪmong the various options that were put forward for the new icon, I All of these icons have strong brand recognition among users, and Or Cyberduck-its icon is a rubber duck! Or Look at Panic's applications-a truckįor the FTP client, a leaf for their web development tool, and a magnetįor their nntp reader. Adium is not the only app out there that uses a I understand that these are Apple's HIG's, but they are just > or even "general-purpose text, code and planning tool". > that it does not represent a metaphor for "editor", "text", "writing", > Well, the reason is that the icon is not a Mac-like icon in the sense Could we help you? Return the favor and Also, now (2.0) would be a good time to re. On the other hand, I know of only one popular app (Adium) that getsĪway with such a non-metaphoric figure, and the icons on OS X are So, what do we do? One option is to revise the current logo, perhapsīy making it a little more "Aqua" and a little more glowing. Despite all the work that Jessie (whoĬontributed #2-#5) and I have done, it seems that we haven't found Re-branding is always tricky, and I'd only like to do it if the new And obviously there is some brand recognition at leastĪmong our current users. Hand, their reasoning makes sense: Emacs and Aquamacs are platformsįor doing more than working with the kinds of text you'd expect to see Time and associate this icon with the application. I asked are fans of the program, they have been using it for a long Of course we have to take this result with a grain of salt: the people The people have spoken: they want to keep the current gnu head icon. You will have seen my previous message summarizing the results of the ![]()
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