Hello.

Today, I wanted to add a button linking to Hydrogenaudio together with the CD-rw.org button featured at RareWares' main page, and realized that there is none.

So, I would like to invite the graphically skilled members of the Hydrogenaudio community to create a standard (88 x 31 pixels) button.

IMO, it will be very useful for people wanting to link to HA from their sites.

We can also get Dibrom and JohnV to chose the winner among the submissions

Any ideas?

Thanks for your attention.

Regards;

Roberto.

Good Idea.

But please... nothing blue and shiny .

Now transparent (for bright background).
PNG (2,66kb):

GIF (2,38kb):

If I find the time, more may come.

Not bad.

nicer version is on the road..

png:

gif:

Not bad either.
Though I'm not sure if I like the yellow glow around the headphones. Edit. Ah, changed already.

And in URMEL's logo the yellow .org reminds me of those afterdawn.com/cd-rw.org texts, which is not imo the best for HA..

something simpler:

enough for today... but I may edit some button slightly by request..

Not bad . I'd move the headpnones little lower. Never mind their shadow will be cropped a bit.

Oh, my buttons are 90x30.
Sorry, I did not read the original article carefully.
Nevetherless I have GIMP xcf sources...

Yeah, you're right. I've put it up there because the crippled shadow didn't look good.
But with the border, I looks much better.

what about this one.. , it's even 88x31

EDIT #1:
another one

EDIT #2:
version with bigger text

EDIT #3:


EDIT #4:


gif versions are available (see absolute location and change the extension)

I like the last one. It's more legible, and the characters are similar to the HA banner.

That's my favourite of the bunch

I might ask the new Cool Edit forum people about links, one of these buttons would be great

I like the graphic button of mykhal

Jup, I also like mykhals more than mine.
And could someone plz tell me the neame of the HA font?

thanks


I'd also like to know.. Ripping the banner is tedious.

Here are a few non-drop-shadow alternatives for dark and light backgrounds respectively:


Is it true that IE STILL doesn't support .png alpha channels? Here are some with backgrounds built in:


There's probably too much blue around the web these days. Here's some anti-blue:




I tried whatthefont.com, but it didn't find it.

http://www.larabiefonts.com/fonts/v/vipnagor.html

Though we need also a new logo soon.. The old logo is kinda outdated, especially the text under it (HA covers more than just psychoacoustic audio compression).

See Yeti's transpatency PNG test page for explanation.
For example my avatar is PNG with transparency, and looks correct in IE because it has set the background bit to the HA's "background" color.

Yep, it's true

That and incorrect CSS positioning drive me #%@!ing nuts. Bastards seem to have no plans to release a new version any time soon either. argh!

Though annoying, there is actually a hack you can use in IE for this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q294714

Yes, and it really works.

I made a test here some time ago:

http://fabul.dk/ass.html

But unfortunately, the page I was going to use it for, had around 500 images and it takes a minute or so to render the page (not the test page, it's safe).

If you feel brave check http://fabul.dk/alpha.asp with IE. Or just hit http://fabul.dk/ with Mozilla, and watch anti-aliased dots like they're supposed to look.

Renders in about 1/2 second for me (in Konqurer and Firebird)...

We should also have a button for foobar2000 (of course, Peter has to approve). I was putting the finishing touches to my "rock en español" album review site and I wanted to add a "I use foobar2000 to listen to all the CDs that I review" link. I think a button would be nice. I suggest the one with the cat and headphones (altough it should feature Peter's cat instead )

Yea, it's only the alpha.asp file that uses DXImageTransform. The regular page just uses ordinary PNG's with alpha transparency.

Somethin like this?

*g*

Yeah, something like that!

But, can you change the "foobar2000" letters to a different color? Or make them black with a white "aura" around them or viceversa (you know, like movie subtitles do so they don't get lost when something white or black is shown). That's because the "foobar20" impression it makes at first sight is kinda disturbing to me...

Thanks!

np, done.

Don't forget to create a favicon for fans of multicolored bookmark toolbars.

Yet another...



EDIT #1:

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i like that last one, clean look

Yes! Just like that, thank you!

slightly offtopic (sorry, but you may like it)

.. ..

My favourites so far:

HydrogenAudio


foobar2000

my vote for (so far)

same here ... but i think the "e" shoould be clearer (in hydrogen)

- enough ?

grey and blue variant will be updated in place.

"e" letter has high density of lines.. It would be simpler if it was e.g. Argon Audio

EDIT #1:

Enhanced psychovisuals =) :

not as well as mykhal's but I hope you like it

made with M$ Paint ;-)

I apologize for flooding this thread, but I have yet another button..



and much enhanced version of already done:



note: I'm using GIMP 1.2.5 / 1.3.19 on linux

My favorites so far:

HA.org:
(edit: this one, too: )

fb2k:

Do you like them still after I updated them to the more antialised font version ? Or it does not matter.. ?

The previous font looks a little cleaner, which is a plus. But they are both very good.

IMHO the antialised looks better.

In my opinion the peak was reached here:

Sharp, clean and nice retro/aged colors.

This one isn't bad either: