Oooh!

[conuly]

masterflare421 has made me two very nifty icons: One and two.

Which to take, which to take... mind, the first'd be better if the line breaks made it clearer it was a haiku, and all icons (almost) are cooler animated, but I don't really care. I'm just trying to decide which one to take! Gah! Help? Thanks.

Icons? Oooh, shiny.
Look at the Serenity
Leaf upon the wind

Comments

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really like that the line break thing didn't work out either. But I would need really tiny text to do that, and then you probably wouldn't be able to read it. So I guess I vote for the second one, though I probably should have put "NaHaWriMo" at the bottom or something.

But anyway I'm glad you like them, especially since I don't consider myself to be an icon maker. :D

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I like the second one.

However, I also like simplicity in my icons, and generally dislike animation unless it's very subtle or very necessary.

[conuly]

What I would've done is done it animated - each line by itself. Add an explanatory "National Haiku Writing Month" at the end, and it's clear as day.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Not to steal masterflare421's glory, but I made you one with the first haiku. Because the line break aggravates my OCD and will drive me CRAZY if you end up using it.

Of course, grudblitter's capital letters also distress me. But no other font is as skinny horizontally.



V. easy -- if you want any others done in that style just shout. Animation, however, is EVIL in icons and I hate hate hate it beyond measure. I suspect I would not despite it half so much if it were not so easy to do bad. I spend enough time in icon communities that I have seen a huge amount of really. fucking. bad. animated icons and now I can't stand animation in icons at all unless it is done supremely well. Or unless the bad animation is absolutely key to the point of the icon, as in this one that I am using (but hardly ever use because it is so obnoxious).

[feathered.livejournal.com]

A bit of unsolicited advice regarding text: silkscreen is a very wide pixel font. Both bm mini and grudblitter are thinner -- grudblitter is, I think, the most horizontally compact of the pixel fonts and is good for fitting longer lines of text in without line breaks while still maintaining fabulous readability. For an example, look at the icon that I'm using here -- that's grudblitter. If you do not already have it, I highly recommend it. It is picky about sizes, though -- I've used it at anything from seven to fourteen depending on the program for identical results.

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

You are definately not stealing my limelight. As I said, I'm not an icon maker, so I'm glad it's getting other people to make better icons. Mostly I made the icons because conuly wrote in response to my comment, "Link to this in your journal, and I'll start asking people to make me simple graphics," and I was feeling silly enough at the time to try making some.

Also, thanks for the advice on other pixel fonts to use. I'll have to look into them :)

[conuly]

That icon rocks. Danke!

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really like that the line break thing didn't work out either. But I would need really tiny text to do that, and then you probably wouldn't be able to read it. So I guess I vote for the second one, though I probably should have put "NaHaWriMo" at the bottom or something.

But anyway I'm glad you like them, especially since I don't consider myself to be an icon maker. :D

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I like the second one.

However, I also like simplicity in my icons, and generally dislike animation unless it's very subtle or very necessary.

[conuly]

What I would've done is done it animated - each line by itself. Add an explanatory "National Haiku Writing Month" at the end, and it's clear as day.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Not to steal masterflare421's glory, but I made you one with the first haiku. Because the line break aggravates my OCD and will drive me CRAZY if you end up using it.

Of course, grudblitter's capital letters also distress me. But no other font is as skinny horizontally.



V. easy -- if you want any others done in that style just shout. Animation, however, is EVIL in icons and I hate hate hate it beyond measure. I suspect I would not despite it half so much if it were not so easy to do bad. I spend enough time in icon communities that I have seen a huge amount of really. fucking. bad. animated icons and now I can't stand animation in icons at all unless it is done supremely well. Or unless the bad animation is absolutely key to the point of the icon, as in this one that I am using (but hardly ever use because it is so obnoxious).

[feathered.livejournal.com]

A bit of unsolicited advice regarding text: silkscreen is a very wide pixel font. Both bm mini and grudblitter are thinner -- grudblitter is, I think, the most horizontally compact of the pixel fonts and is good for fitting longer lines of text in without line breaks while still maintaining fabulous readability. For an example, look at the icon that I'm using here -- that's grudblitter. If you do not already have it, I highly recommend it. It is picky about sizes, though -- I've used it at anything from seven to fourteen depending on the program for identical results.

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

You are definately not stealing my limelight. As I said, I'm not an icon maker, so I'm glad it's getting other people to make better icons. Mostly I made the icons because conuly wrote in response to my comment, "Link to this in your journal, and I'll start asking people to make me simple graphics," and I was feeling silly enough at the time to try making some.

Also, thanks for the advice on other pixel fonts to use. I'll have to look into them :)

[conuly]

That icon rocks. Danke!