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federicoiosue
Changing the logo
The current logo has too much details, if you see the logos of Keep or Gmail or Hangouts or any other Google app, the logo that they have doesn't have much detail and they normally have transparent background, the current logo embodies the O and N as scratchpad and a set of three pencils, that is too much of details, I am working on a new logo, will post it soon.
To see what I mean compare the logo with the ones displayed above
I believe most of the above icons are not a good example of simplicity, they're full of inner shadows to improve their tridimensional consistency and they're not missing any detail for sure (mainly People and Calendar icons).
Anyhow I perfectly agree with you about ON icon, but not being myself a designer that's the best I can do with Inkscape.
Look forward to see your works, and thanks for contribute!
How are these one? If you have suggestion as to how you want the logo to be then please let me know.
The third one is symmetric, it has an O, m, n, i
Yes, I now realize my mistake, I quoted the wrong icons. :)
Try posting this, on Google+ community, not being a real issue it doesn't need to be tracked and there you could have more visibility!
Okay, my internet speed kind of sucks, but will post it there, meanwhile if you have liked any logo then let me know, I will stop brain storming for alternate logos
I like the first flat-style because is simple but I'd like to keep into the logo both the letters. Also I'd prefer a blue coloration :dancers:
Okay, give me one week, I'll theme it blue.
The thing with writing only N in the logo was the O is in the background, anyways, i'll post it when it is ready.
How is this?
HI, I agree with the old logo looking... old? Anyways, blue logo has some nice aspects, yet I think there is missing something (Idk what).
An idea would be to have a picture of a notebook as background, cut in "O"-Form and maybe "notes" scribbled on somewhere.
For clarification i made a draft (no endversion -just for clarification what I mean ;-) ). Anyway I dont have the right for the background image...:
What about this, with the "O" represented by the outer circle, and the "N" by the pencil across the sheet of paper?
Wow, looks really nice, though the pen is maybe not so easily recognized, maybe not directly from edge to edge but in an other angle?
I have just setup a public share for the SVG, if you want to tweak it further. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55984782/omninote.svg
I'll design a unique shape soon. But in the meantime, I gave bradipao's icon a makeover.
Again, the rich colours get washed out on my phone's LCD -_- But it'll look good on an AMOLED or a better LCD
Feedback appreciated :)
Hey a lot of you guys are great designers!
I like them all, so I'm thinking about creating a post on the G+ (more accessible for the most of the users) to show them and get some feedback. I'll do asap!
This last one is great! It should look nice with the current Lollipop icons :)
arjerine, I like the version of 3 days ago inspired by my original version, but I would make a few changes:
- the shadow should have the same angle of the pencil
- the gap between pencil and textlines behind should be removed or increased to a "grid step" [1].
[1] When drawing icons that have to be heavily scaled, it is recommended to draw shapes and geometry on a "grid". Android guidelines suggest a 48x48 grid : all shapes and geometries should be drawn on that grid, so that important details are preserved in scaling down.
The last version of icon is a beautiful, but impossible to scale down. It could be used as icone on very high dpi displays.
Thanks for your feedback
- I wanted the paper to be bigger so consequently pencil is not parallel to the shadow. Looks fine though, in my opinion. I can change it, but then the size of the pencil will be smaller and might look odd when it's actually scaled down and used as an icon.
- You'll have to explain that grid thing a bit more. I just started making icons last week, so don't have any professional experience and haven't read many guidelines. I use 512x512 on Inkscape
- Yea I didn't think about that. I have an XHDPI device so it looks fine. Will try it on another phone for reference
I need to say that the one by bradipao is still my favorite - i just prefer less when it suffices, meaning no colored pencil, when you don't need to color it because you already understand what it is. the last one submitted is a nice approach, too though I'ld be for less colored again. Additionally it might be a bit to detailed for lowdpi displays as already mentioned before.
The colours just depend on the sort of device you're using. AMOLED shows better saturation so it reproduces the image better. Some LCDs might wash it out harshly, so have to keep that in mind
@bradipao if Federico likes the last one for high DPI, I can make another version with less details but similar style for low DPI devices.
for me it's not ab. what colors you are using but that you are using them ;-)
That was in reply to “bradipao's blue”.. I just chose the blue which went in tandem with my PC and phone's screen. And I think it came out rather beautifully
As to usage of colours at all, well that's your preference and depends on your device. I can but won't criticise that. I saw Google's guidelines and they certainly use a lot of colours. So do many others and it looks good in my opinion
It's really depending on the application whether they use colors or not. E.g. the explicit GApps are with the typical colors whilst phone, messages etc. are mostly 2-colored.
You're comparing Google and AOSP. Different things. I haven't liked stock AOSP icons much (although Lollipop seems to change that)