Re: preview-latex icon proposal

Miguel Frasson <[email protected]> writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> * David Kastrup (2005-02-17) writes:
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>> > Could you do so, so that we may at least see whether my last batch of
>> > triangles might be better or worse than the corrected ones by Jan-=C5k=
e?
>> > Since 12 really is very skimpy, I've thrown in a 14x14 version, too.
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>> Okay, here it is:
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>> I modified the manikin a bit in order to have its feet aligned with
>> the pile of sand (or whatever that is).  Anyway, Jan-=C5ke's triangles
>> provided a bit more space for the manikin.  That's why it might look a
>> little clearer there.  Maybe we would get the best results by putting
>> the last version of the manikin into Jan-=C5ke's triangles.
>
> Hi.  I tried once to see if I can put my point.
>
> See what I do in
>   http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~frasson/preview-working.png
>
> The border has a lot less contrast.  I didn't work in the manikin, no
> time.  I cannot do art work now.  For those that like, there is a icon
> design how-to in the web page of one of the famous icon designers for
> gnome.  Or Jimmac (?) of Tigert.  Look for it.  Hinting is explained
> there, and I use it a lot, here and when I designed toolbar icons.

I hate to say that you are right: the work-in-progress sign is, in
contrast to its meaning on the street, not a warning.  The shape and
shading of your proposal looks more appropriate, and the thinner
outline more stylish, also leaving more room for the manikin.
However, the pasty color is just _too_ pale: we need enough saturation
so that this at least looks like a symbol for the red, and so that the
sign does not look like it has its edge filed off.  The frame should
not fade into the background that much.

Things are different for the Postscript error icon.  It should
definitely be quite more of an eye catcher, so we should keep its red
higher saturated, perhaps even fully so.  This will make the icons
less uniform, but the work-in-progress sign is only temporary, and the
error icon should stand out more and is rarely to be seen, anyway.  So
they won't be seen together for long usually, anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum