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Blue - An Integrated Music Environment
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Blue should use a higher-quality icon #293

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

I think it might be time to order a high-res version of blue's icon. Of course, it's not necessary, but on higher-resolution screens it is starting to show. Attached is just a 1080p monitor that I work on. Hopefully you have the original source file for making this? If not, I can gladly recreate it in vector graphics.

[Edit] Github is scaling down the screenshot so it doesn't look quite as blurred. Open it in a new tab to see it in 100% scaling.

low-res

ghost commented 9 years ago

I just made an icon that may suite your application. It doesn't use the same font you did (I can't recognize it), but I'd be glad to change it around if you need anything done differently. As per Gnome's HIG (My preference), it states that a 512x512 icon is an absolute must in this day and age of hiDPI displays. blue

[edit]: 512x512, not 256x256. Also, here is the Gnome HIG page regarding icons:

https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/icons-and-artwork.html.en

kunstmusik commented 9 years ago

Wow, new icons would be great! The source I have for them is in the blue/imageSrc directory:

https://github.com/kunstmusik/blue/tree/master/imageSrc

I made these a very long while ago. If those sources work for you, I think with the gradient it'd be great.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:19 PM, ainola notifications@github.com wrote:

I just made an icon that may suite your application. It doesn't use the same font you did (I can't recognize it), but I'd be glad to change it around if you need anything done differently. As per Gnome's HIG (My preference), it states that a 256x256 icon is an absolute must in this day and age of hiDPI displays.

[image: blue] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4667898/ef0ef0fc-5560-11e4-8c98-0b3d3ceb1c58.png

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ghost commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately, the resolution is way too small to be useable. Are there any objects/things you'd like changed with the above icon? If not, I'd be happy to submit a pull request.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Added some dithering to combat color banding. blue-noise

forrcaho commented 9 years ago

The font on your new icon looks a bit thin to me. If Steven could remember what font he originally used, that would probably be best; another alternative would be to create it as a graphic from a fuzzy blown up version of the original icon. I'll try my hand at the latter sometime over the weekend, unless someone comes up with a better one before that.

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Added some dithering to combat color banding. [image: blue-noise] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4670137/5a2d8da4-5574-11e4-9bd0-eaf0ac7a197b.png

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kunstmusik commented 9 years ago

I opened up the the xcf file in Gimp and it shows the font as "Sans" here on OSX. @ainola did you try opening the xcf to use, or did you just look at the PNG?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:56 AM, fcahoon notifications@github.com wrote:

The font on your new icon looks a bit thin to me. If Steven could remember what font he originally used, that would probably be best; another alternative would be to create it as a graphic from a fuzzy blown up version of the original icon. I'll try my hand at the latter sometime over the weekend, unless someone comes up with a better one before that.

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Added some dithering to combat color banding. [image: blue-noise] < https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4670137/5a2d8da4-5574-11e4-9bd0-eaf0ac7a197b.png>

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ghost commented 9 years ago

@kunstmusik, "sans" is too broad of a name. It could mean any font, really. I checked on a mac running mavericks and couldn't locate any such font - Freesans is a common font but it doesn't have the same shape. It would be best if you could look through the font viewer and tell me the exact font.

@fcahoon, that would be very silly to recreate a font in vector graphics from a fuzzy image. I'd save your energy.

I also entertained a heavier fontface regarding the comment on it being thin (which I disagree with, but let's see what Stephen decides)

blue-bold

kunstmusik commented 9 years ago

Ah, I looked again with Gimp and realized it was just a saved rasterized "b". Looking at the XCF in Vim, it looks like I had done this one Windows using:

(text "b") (font "Trebuchet MS Bold") (font-size 46.000000) (font-size-unit pixels) (hinting yes) (antialias yes) (language "en-us") (base-direction ltr) (color (color-rgb 0.479262 0.976863 0.913333)) (justify left) (box-mode fixed) (box-width 32.000000) (box-height 46.000000) (box-unit pixels)

I'm not sure how to get Gimp on Mac to have access to that font though. I suspect it'd be easier to install msfonts on Linux and edit there perhaps?

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@kunstmusik https://github.com/kunstmusik, "sans" is too broad of a name. It could mean any font, really. I checked on a mac running mavericks and couldn't locate any such font - Freesans is a common font but it doesn't have the same shape. It would be best if you could look through the font viewer and tell me the exact font.

@fcahoon https://github.com/fcahoon, that would be very silly to recreate a font in vector graphics from a fuzzy image. I'd save your energy.

I also entertained a heavier fontface regarding the comment on it being thin (which I disagree with, but let's see what Stephen decides)

[image: blue-bold] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4684903/552dca14-5635-11e4-8a8f-d40e5c2687bc.png

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ghost commented 9 years ago

Yes, I've got it now. I'm assuming you agree to the EULA of this font?

http://web.archive.org/web/20020227054122/www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm

I nabbed the .ttf from a microsoft package. This also means that, as I'm not able to distribute the source in your project as per this line:

Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.

Regardless, here you go:

blue-trebuchet

ghost commented 9 years ago

Apologies, I had misread: You can redistribute this, so long as the EULA are intact. So embedding inside the .svg would be possible.

I would advise against a non-free fontset, but this is, of course, your project.

ghost commented 9 years ago

(sorry for the comment spam)

On second thought, I can just convert the text into an object shape, negating any need for a font.

kunstmusik commented 9 years ago

I'm all for open source everything. If you have an alternative font that is OS and looks reasonably similar, I'm game. The ones you've posted so far do look a little thin; if a slightly wider one could be used that'd be great. Otherwise, I do like the gradient background very much.

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(sorry for the comment spam)

On second thought, I can just convert the text into an object shape, negating any need for a font.

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ghost commented 9 years ago

Cantarell is pretty similar and is licensed until the SIL Open Font License. Here's a version with Cantarell:

blue-cantarell

Surely it's not too thin now? :)

kunstmusik commented 9 years ago

Looks like a big win to me! Can you do a pull request with the updated XCF? I think we'll need to do new pngs as well as a new .icns for OSX.

Oh also, if you do a pull request, could you make sure it's against the develop branch? The master branch is only for released code; develop has the latest development code and feature/xxx are used for long-term feature dev. (I'll be merging feature/audio-layers-group soon into dev.)

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Cantarell is pretty similar and is licensed until the SIL Open Font License. Here's a version with Cantarell:

[image: blue-cantarell] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4686035/b7f2e926-5640-11e4-8724-e15a9c8ed489.png

Surely it's not too thin now? :)

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ghost commented 9 years ago

I'm sorry about that, I have too many windows and workspaces in use right now, I didn't actually mean to. :)

forrcaho commented 9 years ago

I like it! Cantarell for the win!

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:01 PM, ainola notifications@github.com wrote:

Cantarell is pretty similar and is licensed until the SIL Open Font License. Here's a version with Cantarell:

[image: blue-cantarell] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5383525/4686035/b7f2e926-5640-11e4-8724-e15a9c8ed489.png

Surely it's not too thin now? :)

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