* Comments on the Emacs icon discussion
@ 2005-10-10 19:03 luis fernandes
2005-10-10 19:11 ` David Kastrup
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From: luis fernandes @ 2005-10-10 19:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Greetings,
Lennart Borgman invited me to comment on the discussion about a
possible successor to the current Emacs icon.
My early preference would have been for the splash-logo (red gnu with
blue "Emacs") to be also used as the icon. Unfortunately, much of the
detail of the splash-logo is lost when it's scaled down. So we have
to reluctantly look for an alternative.
I agree with RMS that the icon should say "Emacs"; this does not mean
the word has to be spelled-out, it can be an iconic representation. I
remember when I was designing the splash-logo, I had the very same
discussion with RMS; the best I could come up with, was spelling-out
the word "Emacs" cursively, in the same style as the gnu drawing.
Many of the current suggestions, collected by Lennart, are quiet
excellent. I personally like David Ponce's latest submissions (the
last row showing the red gnu head over the word "Emacs").
I feel that the gnu-head /should/ appear in the icon so as to
distinguish this Emacs from the many other Emacsen. The gnu-head also
adds a welcome cohesiveness by graphically linking the icon to the
splash-logo.
Andrew Zhilin's submissions are quite slick. I like the smallest,
left-most icon where the top of the horn is chopped-off and it
resembles an "E"; but it doesn't really say "Emacs".
In all the years of Emacs' existence, nothing has been able to
iconically represent it-- the kitchen sink came the closest but it
somehow didn't seem quite appropriate; the icon said "kitchen sink",
not "Emacs". After all the discussions are archived, we will realize
that nothing quite says Emacs like the word "Emacs", itself.
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* Re: Comments on the Emacs icon discussion
2005-10-10 19:03 Comments on the Emacs icon discussion luis fernandes
@ 2005-10-10 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-11 14:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
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From: David Kastrup @ 2005-10-10 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:
> Andrew Zhilin's submissions are quite slick. I like the smallest,
> left-most icon where the top of the horn is chopped-off and it
> resembles an "E"; but it doesn't really say "Emacs".
I think the last ones with the writing pad underneath have the perfect
tilt to make the horns signify _both_ E and M.
I think if the other ones could be tilted a bit more to get the same
sort of duplicity.
However, it seems to be that the niftiness is bought at the prize of
recognition value: the "M-x" GNU head logo seems strongest in that
regard to me.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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