[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Bill,

(First, note to Kenichi - sorry to bother you with this. I had  
planned to summarize some of these things for you later on.)

On Apr 8, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

> Hi, Kevin.
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm...
>>>
>>> Kevin, I wonder if the checkerboard the blocks are standing on could
>>> perhaps become more of a morph of the new yin/yang Python logo.  I'd
>>> like to see some kind of connection to the graphics being developed
>>> for the main Python web site.
>>
>> I think trying to incorporate two icons into one would be a bit much.
>
> Agreed.  I wasn't suggesting that.  I was suggesting that the new
> *logo* be incorporated into the icon, in some fashion, not any of the
> new *icons* being developed around that logo for the website.  I still
> think it's a good idea.

I understood what you were asking for. Okay, let me be more detailed.  
If we do what you propose, what we would have is two 'elements',  
let's call them, in the final icon which serve the same purpose:  
identifying Python. It's redundant, if not confusing, and since the  
icons use different color schemes and designs, it will hurt the icon  
visibility and clarity as it gets smaller. We don't need a mockup  
created to know this. Just visualize it in your head, or make your  
own mockup by editing the image if you really feel you want to see  
what it would look like.

> It would be nice to have some point of
> graphic unification for the community.

I appreciate what you want to do, but IMHO the correct way to have  
gone about this would have been to design the new Python logo from  
the start to be appropriate as an OS X icon. For whatever reason,  
though, that didn't happen.

So now we have to either figure out how to transform their design in  
order to make their "image" of Python work for our situation, or come  
up with our own design which we feel is a suitable fit for the  
project on OS X. My interest lies firmly in the latter. Projects like  
PyGame and ModApache have their own visual identity for Python, and I  
don't see why the MacPython community, which has it's own web site,  
focus, and interest group, should be any different, particularly as  
it runs on an OS known for its unique and striking visual identity.

Thanks,

Kevin