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New Icon/Logo Proposal #6467

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atfzl opened this issue Mar 5, 2017 · 44 comments
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New Icon/Logo Proposal#6467

atfzl opened this issue Mar 5, 2017 · 44 comments

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@atfzl
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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 5, 2017

New logo/icon (256 x 256)

qbittorrent 256

Dock

qbittorrent dock

App Switcher

qbittorrent app switcher

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 6, 2017

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@sledgehammer999sledgehammer999 commented Mar 6, 2017

Personally I am open in replacing current logo with this, since it follows closely the old design. What do you guys think? ( @qbittorrent/qbittorrent-frequent-contributors )

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@Misiek304Misiek304 commented Mar 6, 2017

I like this new logo a lot.
The photos above where made on macOS but I'm hoping that is this icon will replace the current one it will be across systems (including Windows) not only macOS.

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@ngosangngosang commented Mar 6, 2017

It's better than the current one. 😄 What about #3751?

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@Misiek304Misiek304 commented Mar 6, 2017

This one in my opinion is a lot better. Should we have a vote or something like that?

@glassez
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@glassezglassez commented Mar 6, 2017

I like this icon.

@sledgehammer999
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@sledgehammer999sledgehammer999 commented Mar 6, 2017

It's better than the current one. 😄 What about #3751?

IMO, this looks better. If noone objects in the next days, I'll replace the current one.
@atfzl just to be clear, under which license do you give us this logo? public domain? Creative Commons? GPL? etc.

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@ngosangngosang commented Mar 6, 2017

IMO, this looks better.

Go ahead!

@atfzl
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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 7, 2017

@sledgehammer999 I am not sure which license would be best. I was thinking about GPL.

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 7, 2017

Here is the source sketch file:
qbittorent logo new.sketch.zip

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@Chocobo1Chocobo1 commented Mar 7, 2017

LGTM.

@bugmenot2
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@bugmenot2bugmenot2 commented Mar 7, 2017

Hi!😎

A mix between classic and modern... Hope you like it!

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@ngosangngosang commented Mar 7, 2017

Now I love the @bugmenot2 one. 😄 Just take one, I don't care!

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@Chocobo1Chocobo1 commented Mar 7, 2017

Why not include both? 😏 One for light theme the other for dark theme?

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@sledgehammer999sledgehammer999 commented Mar 7, 2017

Sorry I had begun making a PR with the first one. Take a look at #6484.

I also like the 2nd picture.

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Mar 17, 2017

I like the second one more, but the letters look a little bit dirty. Also I'm confused by the 3d effect - looks a little bit unnatural.

Could the poster release a version without the glow? And with the 3D effect reworked?

In short - MORE versions please.

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 18, 2017

The second logo without 3d effects:

qbittorrent-new-light-512

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Mar 18, 2017

One last thing: the Q letter has a color which is very similar to the background color, so it's starting to blend in and disappear. I'd like its color to be made more distinct.

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@akaleeroyakaleeroy commented Mar 27, 2017

Chiming in with buried proposal #5114

qbittorrent-aqua

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 27, 2017

Hey @birdie-github,

Try this, i have changed the shade in q and added shadow to the main structure.
I was trying on light background and I noticed that the light blue color of border was getting faded, so added shadow.
Now the icon looks much more identical to the current icon.
qbittorrent-new-light-512

I tried it on my system and it looks better with shadow with light backgrounds.
Dock:
dock

App Switcher:
app switcher

cc @sledgehammer999@bugmenot2@surfernsk@LordNyriox

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Mar 27, 2017

Looks really great aside from the fact that the Q letter is still blending in with the background because it has a very similar color.

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 27, 2017

@birdie-github, I need help regarding the color of q character. I tried other shades but they didn't feel right.

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Mar 27, 2017

I've played a little bit with it, and I think the letters look great when they're both white.

1 copy

In case you're interested it's Gill Sans at 384pt.

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@atfzlatfzl commented Mar 27, 2017

@birdie-github, Gill Sans looks interesting but will have to increase border to match the width of font.

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@bugmenot2bugmenot2 commented Mar 31, 2017

@atfzl: I think adding a very subtle shadow to the letters could help, but IMHO both colors and font are fine already.


@birdie-github: Let me disagree with you, the Q clearly stands out even at the smallest icon sizes.

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Mar 31, 2017

@bugmenot2

Suit yourself. When I resized it to 24x24 the Q button simply disappeared for all intents and purposes. My variant with a slightly thicker font and white letters is readable at any size, including 16x16.

For style reasons I'd mirror the q letter instead of using the one provided by this font to make the logo look symmetric.

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@BloodcoreBloodcore commented Apr 1, 2017

I figured I'd just throw a link in here. (You've probably seen it, many times.)
http://ssvdude.deviantart.com/art/qbittorent-Icon-589035499

I've been using this icon for probably a year now and I thought they were quite similar, though I prefer the one I posted here.

If you could make your icon a little darker, I'd appriciate it.. or maybe there could be a light and dark version, similar to the way the taskbar icon has two versions.
(Just my opinion.)

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@bug-me-notbug-me-not commented Apr 1, 2017

Important note: My account has been hacked just while I was writing my reply (I'm looking at you @birdie-github and @Bloodcore!!) so from now on I'll use this account, @bug-me-not...

When I resized it to 24x24 the Q button simply disappeared for all intents and purposes.

Please show us what you got. Here's what I get with my tools:

Fractal scaling: Fractal scaling
Lanczos scaling: Lanczos scaling
Mitchell scaling: Mitchell scaling

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@birdie-githubbirdie-github commented Apr 1, 2017

@bug-me-not

With all the resize methods, b is quite distinct and clearly readable, while q is "dirty" and blends in with the background.

Compare to this: 24

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@bug-me-notbug-me-not commented Apr 1, 2017

I understand your position, but I really think the Q is as "distinct and clearly readable" as the B, sorry 🤷‍♂️

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@BloodcoreBloodcore commented Apr 1, 2017

I think the "q" is fine, at least on Fractal scaling. Lanczos and Mitchell seems to make the font a little blurry.
Though I find the outer ring to be quite hard to notice at that size.
Not that it matters though.

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@srappansrappan commented Apr 2, 2017

Hello someone linked my icon idea (Thanks, @Bloodcore!), so I thought I'd join the thread,
http://ssvdude.deviantart.com/art/qbittorent-Icon-589035499

I still have the PSD any suggestions are welcome.

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@sledgehammer999sledgehammer999 commented Apr 12, 2017

Just a small heads up from me: There is a bit of activity on allowing more people to manage this project on github, my reviewing of old, big and PRs and my real life. Shortly I'll resume this thread, probably sometime in the end of the week. Stay tuned.

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@GlitchedGlitched commented Apr 12, 2017

Hey, I didn't know this was going on, but now that I do, I'll share the icon I made for my personal use. (I added the background to make the border visible)
Main Icon

Document Icons@PDF.pdf

And here are tiny versions:

Small Main Icon
Small Document Icons

I made these in Sketch, so they are vector and can become any size necessary. I'm willing to share that and license it under whatever. I also have .icns files made for Macs if anyone wants them.

Edit: Here's my dock, ignore the downloaded version by the trash
Dock

Light with background:
Dock 3

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@ERYuyNIrbNKrscERYuyNIrbNKrsc commented Apr 25, 2017

pretty nice logo from the breeze-icons theme
https://cgit.kde.org/breeze-icons.git
qbittorrent.svg.zip
screenshot_20170425_121014

qbittorrent

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@bertyhellbertyhell commented Jul 10, 2017

i'll add mine as well:

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@gtkprgtkpr commented Jul 22, 2017

i like the the very top one, the original one of this post. there's enough contrast between the letters and the blue, and it's minimal and flat which matches w10 well.

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@adxanimadxanim commented Aug 8, 2017

and few others...
qb4
qb5

since it's qb (cube_y_) we are talking about...

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@adxanimadxanim commented Aug 12, 2017

Light
qb light_small

Dark
qb dark_small

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Change qbittorrent logo. Issue #6467.
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@StanzillaStanzilla commented Nov 20, 2017

@sledgehammer999 new logo looks super fuzzy in the Windows 10 taskbar
chrome_2017-11-20_23-47-15

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@StanzillaStanzilla commented Nov 20, 2017

@sledgehammer999 Ah, thank you. So it will be fixed with the 5.9.4 upgrade.

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@IdealPersonIdealPerson commented Nov 21, 2017

How to integrate icons into the program? What tool to use? The program has a choice that the icon is placed in the tray, but there is no icon chosen by the user.

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@PiccirelloPiccirello commented Jul 22, 2019

Closed by #6484

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