[TxMt] Re: How About a Competition? (was: Textmate Icon proposal)

[James Andrews]

I'm on about 83.4% ;-)

I think the current icon could definitely be improved, but I'm not keen 
the cartoon hand/pencil.

The main problem with the current icon is that it looks fiddly and 
undefined at a small size (which it tends to be on my dock) making it 
hard to see what it is. Perhaps if it were stylised and abstracted 
more, so it gave a similar sense without having so many small elements, 
it would make a big difference and preserve the character/branding of 
the product. Also the colours, while quite nice, are a bit murky and 
exacerbate the problem. Again small changes here might make a 
significant impact.

I vote for evolution not revolution.

On 23 Nov 2004, at 14:22, Noel Jackson wrote:

> I agree with everything you say. 100%.
>
> On Nov 23, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Johan Sörensen wrote:
>
>> I'm gonna go out on a limb and state that I seem to be one of the few
>> who actually like the icon. And I'm not just saying that because I
>> know the author, but because I think it has a lot of personality,
>> whereas for example a mickey mouse hand holding a pencil just doesn't
>> say "textmate" to me.
>>
>> That said, the current icon isn't perfect, as someone else said it's a
>> little too low on contrast. But nevertheless it is _the_ textmate
>> icon, changing the brand of textmate, however silly some people seem
>> to think it is, just doesn't feel right. Iterate it. Make it better.
>> But starting over from scratch is, in my humble and insignificant
>> opinion, just stupid.
>>
>> But in the end, I'm just a user. Even if the icon was changed to a
>> blue ball with little pink faeries flying about in it, I'd still *use*
>> textmate instead of complaining about the icon ;)
>>
>
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