[TxMt] Textmate Icon proposal - How About a Competition?

[Mats Persson]

OK, since everyone seems to be doing it, I might as well : )

I have thought about all the various proposals, studied my own dock, 
and come up with these really quick & dirty mock-ups:

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Version 1:
Among the best icons in my dock are the Adobe CS icon suite. They are 
clean, easy to distinguish, yet very detailed. So, I thought I'd start 
from there.

The 'concept' for this logo came from Justin's "key with cogwheel icon 
on", that I thought looked too much like iKey's for it to work. So I 
didn't like that one, but I like the concept of a keyboard key, with a 
'gear/cogwheel' on it.  I also like the 'Mate', when (s)he is away from 
the type writer.

The problems in the icon above are:
-- the gear in the background of 1a is not obvious enough
-- the 'mate' is too detailed to work in smaller sizes. Needs to be 
simplified, especially in the face, where the eyes & smile need to 
stand out clearly.


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Version 2:
A really dirty version of one of the previous icons - created by 
someone (sorry can't find your name now) - and I really liked the "text 
document" icon in the background, so I just added the 'mate', so that 
it became an obvious TextMate.

Neither of these icons works in a small size because of the look of the 
'Mate', but think about the overall concepts instead, and think of a 
better 'Mate' that works in small sizes as well.


Hope the above ideas will in some small way further the cause.

Kind regards,

Mats