[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

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Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> >All it needs is somebody with some decent Photoshop compositing skills (and maybe a nice 3D drawing of a technical pencil) to
> > assemble the finished elements. [...]
> >  I'd be happy that someone with more practice at icon work did it though; that Kenichi Yoshida chap, for
> > example, looks like he could do a very nice job just given the raw resources and left to get on with it.
>
>+1. The "yoshida mockup" looks very OSX-ish, but I don't like it as an icon for python. It's definitely not an order of magnitude better than the python.org logo, hence we should go with the official logo.

His lego snake icon is awful but the other work on his site is good, so I think a straightforward brief requesting familiar icons for the following file types incorporating the Python logo and told to go away and do it would produce suitable result. But any decent artist ought to be able to do it; as I say, Python itself is very utilitarian so a very utilitarian set of icons is fine; wild flights of fancy are both unnecessary and unhelpful to users.


>We need icons for:
>* .py/.pyw document (generic document icon with logo as a batch)

Yes, keep it simple: plain while document icon with Python logo in the middle.


>* .pyc "document", like the .py icon but slightly different :-)

Or .pyo. I'd suggest same as the above, except with some binary 0-1 symbols, either as a dark grey run of eight 1s and 0s along the bottom of the document, or as a light grey  random 0-1 pattern covering the entire background of the document. Or you could put a short word like 'binary' or 'byte' or something like that along the bottom of an otherwise identical icon, which seems to be a common way of indicating its purpose.


>* IDLE Application icon

A typical editor icon a-la Script Editor except with the Python icon and a different style of pen (e.g. technical pencil) may be acceptable; the only caveat is that IDLE isn't a conventional document editor a-la Script Editor but more a lightweight interactive interpreter with a Save option on the side. If a document editor icon a-la Script Editor is deemed 'misleading', then something closer to Terminal.app's may better represent its function. Thoughts?


>* Build Applet icon (or drop that tool?)

(Forgot about that one.) I think the standard grinder idea is fine; it just needs redone to a modern standard and incorporating the Python logo.


>It would also be nice to have a generic icon for python application bundles. That is, the icon you get when you build an application with Build Applet or py2app when you don't specify another icon.

Something similar to the general applet icon that Script Editor gives you, except using the Python logo instead of the AS one.


Also, PythonLauncher.app as I say; not entirely sure what the common way to represent something like that would be. There's the rocket idea a-la Java's Applet Launcher.app, so probably something similar perhaps with a slightly fatter rocket.


>I have neither photoshop nor graphic skills, so it would be nice if someone else could create these icons.

I have skills (though I'm still struggling a bit for tools) so I'll do it if nobody else comes up with a better candidate.

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