rur-ple new icon suggestion
Frederic Muller
I've asked Jason (designer, developer, translator and many other skills
;-) ) from our office to design a new icon to add in the
windows/Linux/Mac menus and this is what he has come up with.
What's your impression?
(there are two attached files. png is the original icon file. robot.ico
include four sizes picture, Windows desktop or Windows
App will select picture size automatically.)
Thanks
Fred
Andre Roberge
Dear all,
I've asked Jason (designer, developer, translator and many other skills ;-) ) from our office to design a new icon to add in the windows/Linux/Mac menus and this is what he has come up with.
What's your impression?
Artistically, this is much better than anything I could ever dream of coming up with. However, I must admit that I don't really like it much. One teacher (Andy Judkis) in the U.S. has been using rur-ple every year since it became available. One of the comments he forwarded to me is that the students found Reeborg "cute" and friendly looking. I do not find the proposed icon to be very friendly looking.
Also, Reeborg's default color is gray. I am a bit hesitant to change the color....
Caveat: I am horribly biased when it comes to this kind of details. I drew, pixel by pixel, the robot images that appear in the world. My son, who was 12 or 13 at the time, drew the splash screen. So, I do have some emotional attachment with the images used...
However, I also know that some people found the images in the world (different from the pictures discussed in Fred's message) to be confusing: the robot appears sideways whereas the world is viewed from above. I am wondering if it might be actually appropriate to rethink the images used for the robot....
Regards,
André
Frederic Muller
"angry" looking. I'll ask Jason to do something a more friendly Reeborg
and in gray.
Never thought that the side looking Reeborg could be confusing, but if
you feel like changes those (or providing 2 options to make everyone
happy) why not.
Fred
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Andre Roberge
Thanks for the feedback. I also do find the robot in the icon a bit "angry" looking. I'll ask Jason to do something a more friendly Reeborg and in gray.
I just asked my two kids and they both, independently, suggested it should be blue. And they find the new icon looks "cool".
So there you go! :-)
André
Never thought that the side looking Reeborg could be confusing, but if you feel like changes those (or providing 2 options to make everyone happy) why not.
Fred
Andre Roberge wrote:
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org <mailto:fr...@beijinglug.org>> wrote:
Dear all,
I've asked Jason (designer, developer, translator and many other
skills ;-) ) from our office to design a new icon to add in the
windows/Linux/Mac menus and this is what he has come up with.
What's your impression?
Artistically, this is much better than anything I could ever dream of coming up with. However, I must admit that I don't really like it much. One teacher (Andy Judkis) in the U.S. has been using rur-ple every year since it became available. One of the comments he forwarded to me is that the students found Reeborg "cute" and friendly looking. I do not find the proposed icon to be very friendly looking.
Also, Reeborg's default color is gray. I am a bit hesitant to change the color....
Caveat: I am horribly biased when it comes to this kind of details. I drew, pixel by pixel, the robot images that appear in the world. My son, who was 12 or 13 at the time, drew the splash screen. So, I do have some emotional attachment with the images used...
However, I also know that some people found the images in the world (different from the pictures discussed in Fred's message) to be confusing: the robot appears sideways whereas the world is viewed from above. I am wondering if it might be actually appropriate to rethink the images used for the robot....
Regards,
André
Frederic Muller
Please find a new batch of icons with gray and blue color added, as well
as a more smiling face. There is also one with a book in the background
which is meant to be used to link to directly to the RUR-PLE lessons
(making it easier to run them in your browser).
Let me know how you and your family like it and which combination of
color, background and facial expression you prefer. Of course any other
suggestion is welcome.
Thanks.
Fred
Andre Roberge wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org
> <mailto:fr...@beijinglug.org>> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I also do find the robot in the icon a
> bit "angry" looking. I'll ask Jason to do something a more
> friendly Reeborg and in gray.
>
>
> I just asked my two kids and they both, independently, suggested it
> should be blue. And they find the new icon looks "cool".
>
> So there you go! :-)
>
> André
>
>
> Never thought that the side looking Reeborg could be confusing,
> but if you feel like changes those (or providing 2 options to make
> everyone happy) why not.
>
> Fred
>
> Andre Roberge wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Frederic Muller
> <fr...@beijinglug.org <mailto:fr...@beijinglug.org>
Andre Roberge
> Dear André
>
> Please find a new batch of icons with gray and blue color added, as well as
> a more smiling face.
Much better. The gray robot is a bit dull ... so my preference would
be for the blue robot, but with the maze in the background in red.
There is also one with a book in the background which
> is meant to be used to link to directly to the RUR-PLE lessons (making it
> easier to run them in your browser).
That is an excellent idea!
Let's run with it! :-)
André
Frederic Muller
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Please find a new batch of icons with gray and blue color added, as well as
>> a more smiling face.
>>
>
> Much better. The gray robot is a bit dull ... so my preference would
> be for the blue robot, but with the maze in the background in red.
>
Jason to make us a vector version as well so we can easily get any size
we need without asking him every time.
> There is also one with a book in the background which
>
>> is meant to be used to link to directly to the RUR-PLE lessons (making it
>> easier to run them in your browser).
>>
>
> That is an excellent idea!
>
> Let's run with it! :-)
>
>
>
>> Let me know how you and your family like it and which combination of color,
>> background and facial expression you prefer. Of course any other suggestion
>> is welcome.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> Andre Roberge wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org
>>> <mailto:fr...@beijinglug.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback. I also do find the robot in the icon a
>>> bit "angry" looking. I'll ask Jason to do something a more
>>> friendly Reeborg and in gray.
>>>
>>>
>>> I just asked my two kids and they both, independently, suggested it should
>>> be blue. And they find the new icon looks "cool".
>>>
>>> So there you go! :-)
>>>
Andre Roberge
> Andre Roberge wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please find a new batch of icons with gray and blue color added, as well
>>> as
>>> a more smiling face.
>>>
>>
>> Much better. The gray robot is a bit dull ... so my preference would
>> be for the blue robot, but with the maze in the background in red.
>>
>
> Attached 2 quickly hacked versions of blue/red and gray/red. I asked Jason
> to make us a vector version as well so we can easily get any size we need
> without asking him every time.
>>
I think the blue one (with red background) is the best of all those
done so far. It is very distinctive. I like it!
We may have to change the default color for Reeborg from gray to a
blue version! :-)
Thanks for this.
André
P.S. Feel free to update the "acknowledgments" section to include
yours and others' contributions.
>> There is also one with a book in the background which
>>
>>>
>>> is meant to be used to link to directly to the RUR-PLE lessons (making it
>>> easier to run them in your browser).
>>>
>>
>> That is an excellent idea!
>>
>> Let's run with it! :-)
>>
>> André
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Let me know how you and your family like it and which combination of
>>> color,
>>> background and facial expression you prefer. Of course any other
>>> suggestion
>>> is welcome.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>>> Andre Roberge wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Frederic Muller <fr...@beijinglug.org
>>>> <mailto:fr...@beijinglug.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the feedback. I also do find the robot in the icon a
>>>> bit "angry" looking. I'll ask Jason to do something a more
>>>> friendly Reeborg and in gray.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just asked my two kids and they both, independently, suggested it
>>>> should
>>>> be blue. And they find the new icon looks "cool".
>>>>
>>>> So there you go! :-)
>>>>
>>>> André
>>>> André