Adding a icon or logo
leomikezee opened this issue · 8 comments
Standalone, I think those logos look great, but I'm not feeling it in terms of what this app does + how it would feel with macOS (they look very Web 2.0/Bootstrap/Flat design-ish).
So for now I suppose I will let this ticket be an open call/request for an icon contribution 🙏
I apologize in advance if I end up not liking the submissions 🙇
My proposal: use a fairly abstract icon of a snail, e.g. something like this
and tweak it so that it also looks like a "Q". Question is whether you'd want to work with the snail's head or the tail to form the distinctive lower-right \ of the Q. (Probably the tail, i.e. with the above image you'd have to mirror it.)
I'm not a designer, but I know logo design rules: best logos are as simple as possible, so that (best scenario) even a kid is able to draw it in (optimally) just three strokes max. This is just a raw test with the Futura Medium font, a capital Q (with lots of kerning) and an underdash with the baseline raised & a slope cut out on the left to match the angle of the Q's \ stroke. You can vary a lot: thickness, length of the understroke, angles etc. That's for professionals to come up with the best look (including the color & background color of the logo for the actual app icon)… this is just the basic design. (But you can draw it in two strokes, or one stroke with a handwriting approach.)
You could even make this part of the actual GUI overlay that appears when the user types CMD-Q: you still get a quitting progress bar around the O of the Q, but the rest is just logo. (Or you animate the full logo, but counter-clockwise, i.e. start with the underdash on the left.)
URL of original image: https://i.imgur.com/pslxmzO.png
My version
@fancyme Your icon looks great, it feels very at home on your dashboard :)
Would you be willing to contribute this and prepare the various icon sizes listed in Apple's guidelines?