New Foobar Logo, A simple re-design of foobar's logo for your consideration. Options

[Luceo D'Martis]

Here is a quick and simple re-design of foobar's logo for Peter Pawlowski's consideration. If interested, Contact me and I can provide the original PDF, no strings attached. Cheers.



This post has been edited by Luceo D'Martis: Mar 19 2008, 04:22

[Luceo D'Martis]

The mini is the the easiest to read at 16x16 out of the three, but it is the least attractive on a big scale, in my opinion. The Swis721 is my pick, as it is highly readable as well as simple. However, I still think the icon could cover more negative space. Perhaps half of the free space on either vertical end? By doing this the icon should also cover more of the horizontal space. One last suggestion, could we change the brown to black? Perhaps that will contrast the white font further, augmenting its readability.

I couldn't tell you what it will look like, but theres no harm in trying.

[Keikonium]

The mini is the the easiest to read at 16x16 out of the three, but it is the least attractive on a big scale, in my opinion. The Swis721 is my pick, as it is highly readable as well as simple. However, I still think the icon could cover more negative space. Perhaps half of the free space on either vertical end? By doing this the icon should also cover more of the horizontal space. One last suggestion, could we change the brown to black? Perhaps that will contrast the white font further, augmenting its readability.

I couldn't tell you what it will look like, but theres no harm in trying.

I have to agree with you about the fonts on second look. I can try to disabled the smoothing on the Swis font at smaller sizes and see if that helps readability. I don't know about others, but I use the color of the icon to tell the difference between codecs, so the readability at those smaller sizes isn't that big a deal since I use color anyways.

I can try and make the icon wider. I just don't want it looking like a square. I'll see what I can do.

The "brown" isn't there with all icons. Its actually black, with opacity that shows through the background color of the icon. As you can see in these older versions below:


I will try and make it more universally black tho .

EDIT:

Here is the icon wider, and I slightly darkened the "brown"-ness at the bottom. I think it looks okay, but maybe too square?


This post has been edited by Keikonium: Mar 23 2008, 06:09

[bb10]

EDIT:
Here is the icon wider, and I slightly darkened the "brown"-ness at the bottom. I think it looks okay, but maybe too square?

Yeah I think it's a bit too square, the other ones look better.

Amazing work though. Keep it up!