256x256 px icons

[Warren Young]

Collecting all Corinna reply answers here:

On 7/28/2011 3:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It seems that black was a bad choice for the Cygwin C.

Is there a reason we cannot change it now?  I don't see that Red Hat has 
filed a US trademark on the logo.  Even if they had, it's usually better 
to file without reference to color.  Ref: http://goo.gl/MXIbK

Is the new color scheme on cygwin.com just someone's disconnected idea, 
or is it part of the product's current identity?  Perhaps green and 
black is démodé?

> the longer I see the 48x48 icon on my desctop, the more I like
> it.

You mean the second version, with the bright Cygwin logo alone in the 
terminal window, rather than the original "with text" composite?

We can mix-and-match.  We could go for a lone Konsole icon for the 
smaller sizes and add the Cygwin C only at larger sizes, for example. 
That's one of the freedoms you buy when you include multiple sizes in a 
single icon file.

At the largest size, we'd have enough resolution to add some text back 
in.  Imagine a green glass tty look with, say, autoconf output, scaled 
for a proper 80x25 grid?

> The lighter the terminal background gets, the less it's recognized
> as a terminal background.

True.

The only reason to do that is to improve contrast, and as you point out, 
changing the foreground brightness instead also accomplishes that.

> What if the green glow around the black C glows a bit more?

Totally doable.  The main limit is taste, not tech.

> What if the green glow is replaced with a pretty light grey glow, just
> to help distinguishing the C from the background?

Yes.  You also have choices of mattes, strokes, bevels, etc.

I'm also a fair hand with 3D, which gets you specular highlights, 
shadows and suchlike, which can help a logo pop off a dark background.

Is there official vector logo art I can use?  I can do my own tracing, 
but if there's something official, I'd rather start from that.

> It would probably be easier if I could handle gimp better

Let me handle this, ma'am.  I'm a trained professional. >:)

(One of my day job hats is graphics-monkey-by-default, 2D since 1995, 3D 
since 2007.)