Let's request Logos 4 Mac to be more Mac like 1) Enhance the app. icon

Hi all

A light-hearted (yet real request) while we play with the Alpha version could be to put forward some ideas to have the developers make Logos 4 Mac more 'Mac like'.

After dragging the application icon onto my dock (for the first time!) I would post the first suggestion to help make Logos 4 Mac more a true Mac app. Jazz up the app. icon! The current one looks so...so... Windows.

Wouldn't it be great to see a nice 3D photorealistic magnifying glass with the cross floating in the middle of it. Screenshot above gives some examples of Mac application icons.

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J.R. Miller

how about this alternative?

PS
Before someone asks... This was never a publicly available icon, I simply made it for 1.2.2.

David Buckham

Joe,

Did you make it available because I have that same logo...

It does look nice though and much better than the original Logos/Libronix for Mac Logo

all about Christ,

David

J.R. Miller

I did post it in the old Newsgroups long ago and I think a couple others made up their own as well.

If you look closely, mine has a black outline and yours does not, so I think it came from someone else.

Ben

I guess I'd never thought about it before, but if Logos wants to expand its base of users, perhaps it should remove the cross from the icon. If I were a Jewish Mac user looking for a Jewish package, I think I'd look elsewhere for a program that wasn't trying to be overtly Christian. Just thinking out loud...

Heath Choate

Joe:

Nice to see the Logos icon under your avatar. Congrats again. I too use an icon similar to yours for 1.2 instead of the Libronix Logo

Brian Kane

Comparing the current one with Windows may be a bit harsh, but maybe more like Adobe (due to the flatness).

Photorealistic would be cool, but it might end up looking like a Spotlight (or worse Sherlock) replacement. Maybe it just needs some more 3D to look a little more Mac-ish. Here's one several of us used for Logos 1.2 (adapted from an icon on the logos website).

Maybe drop a little of the glossy and puffiness.

Terry Poperszky

Maybe drop a little of the glossy and puffiness

No, don't change a thing. It is perfect! Where can I get it?

Patrick S.

Comparing the current one with Windows may be a bit harsh, but maybe more like Adobe (due to the flatness).

Photorealistic would be cool, but it might end up looking like a Spotlight (or worse Sherlock) replacement. Maybe it just needs some more 3D to look a little more Mac-ish. Here's one several of us used for Logos 1.2 (adapted from an icon on the logos website).

[...] Maybe drop a little of the glossy and puffiness.

If you look carefully and compare the Adobe icons to the Logos icon it can be seen that the Adobe icons use subtle visual elements which, when they are added up, make them more visually strong.

the effect of light and shade, light coming from the top
the words (or for the Logos icon the cross and magnifying glass) have a 3-D effect done by having the main colour (pink or brown) be slightly lighter where it edges the letters

If the Logos icon had those it would definitely be better. Also I wonder if Logos is making high quality large icons like which Apple did for OS X.

The second icon is not really my style - it would have to be toned down a lot for my tastes [;)]

Rob Taylor

Maybe drop a little of the glossy and puffiness.

where can i get that one from 1.2?

Christopher Layton

I don't know how to make an icon file, and since I drew this one by hand I just had to make it a .png. But what about something more like this...

David Buckham

ChristopherLayton,

LOVE IT!

all about Christ,

David Buckham

Jack Caviness

I don't know how to make an icon file, and since I drew this one by hand I just had to make it a .png. But what about something more like this...

Great [Y]

Heath Choate

I don't know how to make an icon file, and since I drew this one by hand I just had to make it a .png. But what about something more like this...

I hope you don't mind but I just hoodwinked it. All you have to do to make it an icon is go to logos 4 in the finder, right click, and hit info and drag it to the position of the current icon until you see the green + and drop

Fine Eric A

I don't know how to make an icon file, and since I drew this one by hand I just had to make it a .png. But what about something more like this...

I hope you don't mind but I just hoodwinked it. All you have to do to make it an icon is go to logos 4 in the finder, right click, and hit info and drag it to the position of the current icon until you see the green + and drop

I've also just made this my Logos Icon! I love it! As a small aside one of the things I love about my Mac is that to change the icon for an app it really is as easy as "drag and drop"! I also had that rainbow logos icon for v1 mac logos, but the one you've created here seems to me what the Mac icon should be based upon.

Heath Choate

This is really what the Mac community is about. If we don't like your icon. We make our own and share .

Rev. D.

Wow, I really love ALL of the icons people created. Now if I could just learn how to use one of them on my system.

Great question and thanks for asking.

Christina