svtmike

With the advent of IE9, the little white AZ on monotone blue background icon looks decidedly archaic. How about a spruced up icon that reflects the sophistication of Acurazine a bit better in my taskbar?



Something that wouldn't look out of place on an iPad would be ideal.

Whiskers

Dont mess with the classics man..

astro

sure, by all means feel free to make us one

svtmike

I just might do that when I run out of bike and computer projects.

friesm2000

iTrader: (4)

and personally the fewer graphic intensive icons sent the better, little shit like that adds up to slower loading and such (especially if done enough times)

svtmike

It'd be no more "graphic intensive" than the current one. Just better looking.

Robb, where can I send the .ico file?

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

Who uses IE?

svtmike

I do, for one. Along with Safari and Firefox depending on where I am and what computer I'm on. IE isn't the only browser that uses the icon.

princelybug

iTrader: (16)

I'm on Safari and I see it.

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

Im on Chrome and the icon is on the tab, but it doesnt bother me.

KillerG

nothing radical, but a new color thats inline with the logo:

svtmike

Yup, looks nice. The gradient is subtle but classy. Mine's a bit different but the same idea.

An .ico file contains multiple sizes of the icon.

KillerG

OOOOOO i didnt realize you already made a new one in the OP, i thought it was the same as the regular one, my bad

hmm, now i know what a .ico is for haha, thanks!

svtmike

What font did you use for the AZ there?

KillerG

Consolas, its not the exact font im sure but i dont think it would be hard to find with some effort and the WTF font analyzer

phee

iTrader: (5)

i have two. is this still open for suggestions?

phee

iTrader: (5)

the proper font is arial narrow. the first half should be bold and ital. the second is just ital.

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KillerG

i like all of those, we should take your icons phee, the one svtmike posted, and the one i posted, and the original, and have a 4 way vote for a new icon or old one lol

svtmike

Here's mine...



And here's the link to the .ICO file.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17964962/Acurazine.ico

phee

iTrader: (5)

i like yours mke. you should match the color to the azine logo!

svtmike

It is using a shade of orange from the AZ logo.

Sly Raskal

iTrader: (1)

As good as these icons look at these sizes, the issue is that when you shrink them down to the size that is displayed in the location bar for the favicon, it makes it nearly unreadable.

Here is a quick one I created with three different sizes that can be converted to an ICO format...

48 x 48



24 x 24



16 x 16



Illustrator file I created to render these images:

http://www.anilnatha.com/images/az.ai


My suggestion would be to stick with what we have, but simply change the blue to orange. :twocents:

phee

iTrader: (5)

sly- thats why you create one in the correct size not to mention the "AZ" is smaller in our current one.

Sly Raskal

iTrader: (1)

I was trying to get at the point that with an image that small, there isn't much detail you can add, especially when it comes to text because it makes it hard to read. So no matter how much spiffier you want the icon to be, it isn't going to be that much more spiffier.

I still feel keeping it the same as to what we have now and changing the background to orange is adequate. That's just my viewpoint, not saying that's how it will be.

svtmike

I get what Sly is saying, which is why I built a real .ICO file with the different pixel counts. Here are the smaller sizes:

48 x 48:

24 x 24:

16 x 16:

stogie1020

giddyup!

OK, gratuitous bump...

CCColtsicehockey

I like the old school blue one just cause it keeps with the OG style that has since been changed.