New forum icons

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 29th, 2007, 22:01

Well what do you think?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 29th, 2007, 22:02

Look ok, but need some work, they look at bit low quality atm

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 29th, 2007, 22:04

I have the following to use, thanks to the work of Grimmie

It's quite possible I have fucked them up in some way when saving them

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » March 29th, 2007, 22:16

New icons? What? Where!
*ctrl F5*
Aaaah!

I like them, but they seem a bit big.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 29th, 2007, 22:24

Gunslinger42 wrote:I like them, but they seem a bit big.

Yeah I wanted them bigger to be more obvious, but at the same time take up no more room by making the vertical space scroll more (if that makes sense).

Any smaller and the 5punky splat is impossible to do, and I really wanted to make more of a trademark of the 5punky splat.

If people hate it, I'll change it back, but thought we could run with it for a bit and see what people think.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 29th, 2007, 22:27

I think at this size, the arms on 5punky might be best in solid black, that way the shape will look good without too much colour leakage as we have now.

I'm sure grimmie will be able to help, looks like he made shiny new vectors for the job.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » March 30th, 2007, 0:20

I am always hesitant to offer an opinion on graphic/webby stuff as I couldn't do any of it if my life depended on it, however I think they are too big and look a bit fugly as they are.

Change is good; change for the sake of change, isn't.

Post by **ProfHawking** » March 30th, 2007, 0:23

need more splat, less blob i think.

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 30th, 2007, 7:12

I like them. I like having a 5punky trade mark, and with the top of the site redisigned I think the rest of the forum is hanging behind a bit.

EDIT: Also, after seeing quite a few other forums no my travel through the intarweb I've noticed a lot of them are very similar to each other. 5punk already looks unique, and the more we do to make it stand out the better I think.

eion · Post by **eion** » March 30th, 2007, 7:45

Too big, too big!

(and yes, twss)

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » March 30th, 2007, 7:54

PITCHFORK PITCHFORK!!

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » March 30th, 2007, 8:10

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Look ok, but need some work, they look at bit low quality atm

This. In principle I like the idea, but they need refining/sharpening. I've always found that with the old ones I didn't look at them as a section of the 5punky splat but just more of a random shape. Having the whole shape makes it more obvious what they are, but in their present form they do look a bit rough around the edges (he says with 2 week's worth of stubble

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MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » March 30th, 2007, 8:27

Lateralus wrote:
but in their present form they do look a bit rough around the edges (he says with 2 week's worth of stubble )

Er unless you are a teenage boy i belive thats a beard, not stubble

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » March 30th, 2007, 8:28

Actually, after a few mins of browsing the site I don't like them at all, not in their current state. They just look too scruffy. I'm going to join Sheriff in the non-technical experts group though, as my tattyshop skills roughly equate to those of a 5 year old's crayon drawings of a house and a tree and his mummy and daddy*.

*I did one of these at primary school and they were made in to plastic plates which at the time was very cool indeed. There was a second one of me as superman which is equally ace.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » March 30th, 2007, 9:06

Afraid I have to agree with the scruffy thing. They just don't seem to fit in with the overall look and feel of that part of the board...squares for empty, splats for new posts, square borders. I think to make splats fit you'd need a complete redesign of the theme for the forums bit.

Btw I've not said so before but I think the mouseover index button rocks but the logo on the left looks like it's been badly photoshopped. Dunno if this is deliberate but the U in particular looks like somone accidentally airbrushed the border too much.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » March 30th, 2007, 10:12

Hmm... I'm not sure about them, it might look better if the no new post ones had grey edges so it looks like they're faded out rather than solid black. Or you could put the top corner of the new splat in a square so its similar to the old ones.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 30th, 2007, 12:25

Lee wrote:Or you could put the top corner of the new splat in a square so its similar to the old ones.

I think this would be the best comprimise.

I think I'll wait till the end of this week to decide, good suggestion

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