<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/14 Máirín Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mairin@linuxgrrl.com">mairin@linuxgrrl.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Angie!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 08:31 -0500, angella inzinga wrote:<br>
> I am working with the Solang group for a help->about page, and icons.<br>
> They requested simple and stylish, and a few weeks ago I gave them a<br>
> few designs to pick from (I was really just trying to refine what<br>
> direction 'simple and stylish' they wanted to go). The wiki I read for<br>
> this group asks that logo work get sent into the community for review,<br>
> so here's what I hope to submit. Topbar 2 in a 48X48. Topbar 128 is<br>
> bigger, clearer. The last one is the help->about image.<br>
<br>
</div>I really like your work! The one concern I have is with your color<br>
palette - you may want to modify it to match the default<br>
gnome-icon-theme better. I think if you modify the colors to be a little<br>
bit softer and maybe use dark grey rather than black outlines (and round<br>
the corners a bit as you suggested) with a white inner outline and make<br>
the polaroid white areas a bit of a light grey so the white outline<br>
stands out - I think that'll make the icons fit in a bit better with the<br>
rest of Fedora's icons. I've attached an example of what I mean. (I<br>
didn't modify the colors at all but I tried to make them more<br>
gnome-icon-theme like otherwise)<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> They chose the crisp and flat polaroid design, not a more distressed<br>
> one. I still think I need to soften the corners, tho. But other than<br>
> that I think they are OK? I don't know, this is my first attempt at<br>
> logo design. All files have a .svg and a .gif, but are terribly<br>
> disorganized at the moment and I just attached whatever I found first.<br>
> Some constructive feedback would be awesome. (including if there is a<br>
> better way you like to have files sent around???)<br>
<br>
</div>Attaching files to your email is fine as these are relatively small<br>
files.<br>
<br>
Some things I noticed about your svg -<br>
<br>
- it says it's 128 but it's not, it's more like 1000x700 or something<br>
like that<br>
<br>
- a lot of your shapes were not aligned to the pixel grid or at integer<br>
sizes. you want to make sure your shapes aren't floating point height or<br>
width and that they are at integer (.000) x and y coordinates so they<br>
align to the pixel grid and don't get blurry. this is especially<br>
important for smaller icon sizes.<br>
<br>
- a lot of your shapes did not have strokes but instead were layered<br>
fill shapes. using strokes tends to be a lot easier to work with.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps - thanks for your work!<br>
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~m<br>
</font><br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks! I'm really not terribly used to Inksape, so this really really helps!! I'll play around with the .svg's!<br><br>Angie<br></div></div><br>