Create logo type for SMD

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We need a logo type which we can use on the splash screen, launch icons, Google 
Code project page and other similar places.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erlan...@telia.com on 13 Mar 2011 at 9:10

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What sizes and formats are needed? 

Original comment by susanm...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2012 at 9:13

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I believe the current SMD Yggdrasil splash screen/application icons are the 
ones found in:
http://socialmusicdiscovery.googlecode.com/svn/yggdrasil/trunk/src/org.socialmus
icdiscovery.yggdrasil.foundation/icons/logo/

Peer might have more information which ones that are actually needed. I think 
they are used both for:
- Splash screen (Not sure if it uses 250x250 or 500x500 version)
- Application icon in top left corner of window title

I found references to them in the following file:
http://socialmusicdiscovery.googlecode.com/svn/yggdrasil/trunk/src/org.socialmus
icdiscovery.yggdrasil-product/org.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil-product.product

Except for this, it would be nice to have a logo at the upper left corner of 
the Google Code project page, I believe that can have a maximum size of 153 x 
55, so a square 53x53 logo is probably a good idea if we want to use the same 
logo everywhere.

Would also be nice to have a SMD icon for the browse menu in Squeezebox Server 
web interface, we currently use the default artist iconf provided by Logitech:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.7/trunk/server/HTML/EN/html/images/artis
ts.png

Squeezebox Server will rescale this to 25x25 pixels when it's about to be used, 
so we can have a hires image but it's important that it's possible to recognize 
it also at 25x25 pixel resolution.

It might be enough to just create one square hires logo which we can rescale to 
fit all the above places.

We can either use the same logo both for SMD Yggdrasil (rich client) and in 
other places or we can have a separate logo for SMD Yggdrasil. However, if we 
use separate logos I think it would be good if they have some similarities so 
it feels like they all belong to the same project.

Original comment by erl...@isaksson.info on 7 Jan 2012 at 9:54

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Yggdrasil icons and images follow Eclipse RCP standards. Sizes and formats for 
Yggdrasil are as follows:

"Small images" are used in the following sizes: 
16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 128x128. 

Splash is a 500x499.bmp (must be bmp?)
About image is 250x250
All other icons are 16x16 .PNG

All images except splash are .PNG, and live in 
/org.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil.foundation/icons/logo 
(https://code.google.com/p/socialmusicdiscovery/source/browse#svn%2Fyggdrasil%2F
trunk%2Fsrc%2Forg.socialmusicdiscovery.yggdrasil.foundation%2Ficons%2Flogo)

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2012 at 6:15

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I kind of like the Yggdrasil tree image (not necessarily this particular one, 
but the idea in general), and would like to keep some kind of visual reference 
to the Yggdrasil tree for the client. But it would of course be nice to have 
some similarity with the SMD project. The current logo is just an open source 
Yggdrasil tree with simple-as-possible white SMD text or Yggdrasil "Y" on it. 
Any variation would be nice, either a tree with an SMD decoration, or the SMD 
logo with a tree decoration, or ... whatever.

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2012 at 6:21

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Final comment: I think we need at least two variants - one "fullsize" with some 
text (for splash and about boxes), and one small (16x16) icon with just the 
acronym (for dialog/editor captions etc). We can resize the large one to fit 
various needs, but we cannot scale it down to 16x16.

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2012 at 6:25

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I liked the tree idea. I played around with a couple of ideas and thought the 
tree with musical notes in place of leaves). You could also go a different 
route and have something like people with notes emphasizing the social aspect. 
Attached are a couple of rough images to illustrate what I mean.

Original comment by susanm...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2012 at 1:34

Attachments:

• tree_with_notes.png
• People_with_notes.png

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Both seem interesting - as already stated, I think I'd prefer the tree one for 
Yggdrasil, and I like the social angle for a general SMD image. It would be 
nice if the SMD logo would appear in the Yggdrasil tree somehow - perhaps 
Yggdrasil is rooted in or growing out of SMD? Or supporting it? Not sure.

Original comment by peer.tor...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2012 at 6:34

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I also like both. At the moment it feels like they are a bit too different if 
we want to use the tree for Yddrasil and the social one for SMD in general, so 
to me it feels like it would be good to somehow combine them so it feels like 
they belong to the same project. 

If it's not possible to combine them and we want to choose one of them I like 
the tree better.

Original comment by erl...@isaksson.info on 14 Jan 2012 at 9:21

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Ok, thanks for the comments! I will play around a bit more to see if I can come 
up with a combined one. 

Original comment by susanm...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2012 at 6:30