Icon update proposal

[Håvard Pedersen]

I don't think adding shoulders would make it clearer it's a duck,
since ducks don't have shoulders. The only distinctive features, the
beak, will never be recognizable in a front-facing silouette.

Håvard Pedersen
http://fuzzy76.net/




On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 17:52, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adium.im> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 04:06:56, Håvard Pedersen wrote:
>> IMHO, the duck just doesn't translate well to a silouette. That looks more like a person silhouette vs rorschach blob.
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> It's an unfair comparison, since the Duck silhouette presented is missing its shoulders. Imagine comparing that human silhouette to its head portion only; it would be like a person silhouette vs. a rough circle.
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> I agree that of those designs, that person silhouette is the strongest and that Duck silhouette the weakest, but a better Duck silhouette is possible. (I'll leave it to the icon designers to decide whether pursuing one is a good use of their time.)
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