[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

[Donovan Preston]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:36:26PM -0400, Jacob Rus wrote:
>> has wrote:
>>> I could draw up a grinder or something in Illustrator, but it  
>>> probably won't be for some days. If you can find something  
>>> sooner, that's cool, otherwise let me know middle of next week  
>>> and I'll see what I can do.
>> Okay, this is kind of goofy, but might work.  The second image is the
>> "drop" state.  Check out the zip to see it in action.
>>
>> PNG: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/python/py-grinder.png
>> ZIP: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/python/py-grinder.zip
>
> Nice looking, but unrecognizable and impractical at small sizes.  Even
> at full size, I had to stare at it for a few seconds before I
> recongized what it was trying to depict.  The dropping action at a
> small size (say 32x32) looks like something kicking out, rather than a
> handle turning.

What about something more like the Help Indexer in /Developer/ 
Applications/Utilities. A little more stylized and less  
photorealistic. Should look better at smaller sizes.

dp