[Lumiera] Lumiera logo

[Guillermo Espertino]

Joel:
I understand your point, but the current logo is not viable for extreme
reductions as needed for icons. It's not square (and the area of the
icons has to be square) and it has too many fine details that are
completely lost when reduced. So, in my opinion, it's impossible to
convert it in an icon without cropping it (well, it is possible, but the
result looks terrible).

I really doubt that making a Tango icon out of the current logo is even
possible. It doesn't have any of the aspects needed for that.
Keep in mind that the icon must work at low resolutions such as 16 or 24
(22 px according Tango).
And I'm afraid that the current logo isn't just suitable for that.
The couple of examples you showed are completely different, and
transforming the logo into something like that is in my opinion, more
harmful than simply showing a part for the whole.
Cutting a part of a logo is a valid transformation. It doesn't introduce
new elements, it only shows a part that can be recognize inside of the
whole visual identity system.
Creating new elements introduce new features that won't be present in
the rest of the system, and that goes against the recognition of a
normalized system.
Besides, I really don't think that is a good idea to have an icon more
complex than the brand itself. It doesn't make sense.

Of course I might be wrong. You're welcome to try and show the results.

Gez

El vie, 02-01-2009 a las 16:07 +0000, Joel Holdsworth escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> For the application icon, it's important that the icon have a
> distinctive silhouette, so for this reason a simple square icon won't
> work. But also I think we are going to have to do something to the plain
> logo to make an icon out of it, because it's got a lot of transparency,
> and wouldn't work on both dark and light backgrounds.
> 
> I don't think it would he hard to make a Tango style icon out of the
> logo. The film would have to be made "solid", and perhaps have some
> extra detail added. Something like this
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/32x32/mimetypes/video-x-generic.png
> or this
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2929565789_0fc8d44e88.jpg?v=0 (minus
> the pictures in the frames)
> 
> Then the logo will fit in perfectly with other apps on the Free Desktop
> because it follows the same style guidelines.
> 
> Joel