Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons - Draw

Hi Bernhard,

My comments are pretty much the same as Christoph's.  The 3D look seems out
of place, and a box with handles would look great (as shown in his link).  I
will play with your svg file if you put it up; playing around with it might
spark some ideas for what else could be added.  Draw is a surprisingly tough
icon...

I would greatly appreciate if everyone could put their svg files on the wiki
page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons


I will playing around with stuff in the next couple days.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Jaron





On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com>wrote:

> Hi Bernhard!
>
> Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2011, 21:21 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Bernhard Dippold schrieb:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > (who starts working on the Draw document icon)
>
> Thanks!!! :-)
>
> > Here is my first draft:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/4/40/Draw_icons_proposal.png
> > I used the primitives Christoph suggested for the small versions and
> > added 3D-effects to the larger icons.
>
> Thanks for that, and great that you already worked on all of the
> sizes ...
>
>      * 16 px: Good idea to separate the circle and the triangle in this
>        way!
>      * 32px: From my point of view, the circle and the triangle are a
>        bit close. That has also some impact on the "balanced weight" of
>        the graphic.
>      * 48px+128px:
>              * Mmh, as far as I know, there are no 3D objects like that
>                (usually they are based on extrusion or rotation) ...
>              * To me, the "line" is still a bit inaccessible to connect
>                this with the application "Draw" (although it might help
>                users of OOo). How about using a plain "rectangle", or
>                using some kind of "calligraphy" style line (e.g. small
>                ends, thinker middle section)?
>
> Sorry, no more ideas :-\
>
> By the way, I had a look how the ODF icons visualize that these items
> are "editable". Stella came up with a great idea to show the "handles":
> http://odftoolkit.org/pages/ODF-Icons#ODF_Icons
>
>
> > The curved line people didn't understand as main reference for Draw
> > (being a vector based graphical tool) is part of the larger icons and
> > left out in the smaller ones.
> >
> > I didn't add any secondary color, because the use cases in Christoph's
> > icons are more or less external resources in the other applications
> > (image in Writer, chart in Calc) - I don't know anything similar in Draw.
>
> At the moment, this seems to be the same for Base (I hope to show
> something this evening...).
>
> But, slight color might also highlight one of the values of Draw - being
> a creativity tool (or wanting to become one *g*).
>
> > All comments appreciated. If you want to play with the SVG source,
> > please tell me...
>
> "tell"
>
> Could you please add this to the wiki, maybe others might work with it,
> too. Would be cool!
>
> Oh, before I forget: I've felt free to move the MIME type page to a new
> location to make it look more official - at the moment, we all are
> working on the icons. It just feels more appropriate ...
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>
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