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**Hitcher** · 2010-06-29, 15:52

I'm sure someone can do something with this spiff -

maruchan · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-29, 17:58 by maruchan.)

Hey Spiff, here's an icon I came up for Encyclopaedia Metallum - Albums. Feel free to use it if you like it, or recommend changes. I kind of wanted to add a pentagram or a goat head at the top, but I didn't know if that would be too much, haha. Anyways, I can output an "Artists" one too.

**Jeroen** · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-30, 21:51 by Jeroen.)

very nice maruchan Nod

An NRK one:

pretty simple, based the colors on what I found in the programming section of their site.

or even simpler

jmarshall · 2010-06-30, 00:50

Let's keep it simple. Square is optimal, and is used by "app stores" all over the show, so let's just use that. It also works fine beside the icons XBMC uses everywhere else.

256x256 is plenty. PNG only please, no jpg renaming to PNG. Non-transparent is probably best (most logos have a predefined colour they should appear on anyway). Certainly no "glossing" or overlays -that's the skins job.

It should just be the logo if possible - obviously some text can be added if it is thought necessary, but in most cases there should be no need for it - most folk can instantly tell the "brand" by the logo anyway (that's the point!)

I'll codify these up into the wiki.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Jezz_X · 2010-06-30, 00:54

I got to ask whats the point of png if we can't have any transparency we may as well go jpg and make em smaller with compression

jmarshall · 2010-06-30, 01:05

It's lossless and at this size is small enough IMO. It's only downloaded once either way.

jmarshall · 2010-06-30, 03:40

I've added some guidelines here:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Addons_for_XBMC

jmarshall · 2010-06-30, 05:24

And on that note, we have a whole bunch of scraper icons ready for you guys to get stuck into. Have fun!

If you do one, pop a ticket on trac with the icon as an attachment, and others can then use the ticket to add theirs.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Jezz_X · 2010-06-30, 06:25

I have done a few already (and committed them) if anyone can do better feel free

Jezz_X · 2010-06-30, 06:26

**Jeroen** · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-30, 07:02 by Jeroen.)

rcoops · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-30, 11:11 by rcoops.)

Never mind. Blush

Waffa · 2010-06-30, 20:06

Sorry guys, I really dislike the black or white whatever backgrounds in the icons. Shocked

Another thing, icon/logo's are made in a way so people would reconize them and distinguish from other, unify is not helping...

The already existing icons are fine Imo and most of them are wide, so why go for square Huh

and those b/w backgrounds can easy been done in skincode.

**Jeroen** · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-30, 21:09 by Jeroen.)

There's always going to be some color someone doesn't like... Besides, it's not like they are are black or white. As far as color use goes I tend to follow the colors the media providers themselves use which imo helps recognizing them. They are mostly logos designed by them, so I don't see the problem.
Don't tell me you only recognize icons by the dimensions of the image? The goal is to unify the dimensions used for the logos, not the logo's themselves.
Wide icons are a terrible idea from a space efficiency standpoint. The amount of sensible viewtypes you can make with tvshow thumbs for example is very limited.

Waffa · 2010-06-30, 21:27

Got 11 views in MM Waffa! and could make more with the old style icons. Smile

And yes, square is more space effenciency Smile

would hide the background/fanart more.