mitcho Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

Linguist, University of Helsinki and National University of Singapore

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The Ubiquity Favicon: a very important question

Jun 19, 2009

As we get close to wrapping up Ubiquity 0.5 (currently planned to ship—fingers crossed—on Monday) one remaining issue is how to incorporate our cute new Cocoia-designed and community-produced icon, the Ubiquibot. The difficult decision is how to take this finely detailed icon and produce a 16 x 16 [[favicon]].

I came up with three different options:

1. ubiquibot-favicon1.png 2. ubiquibot-favicon2.png 3. ubiquibot-favicon3.png

Seeing them on my blog doesn’t quite compare to how they will be used, so here are some screenshots of them in context:1

Skin/command subscription

original.png Current version

favicon1.png Option 1

favicon2.png Option 2

favicon3.png Option 3

In Ubiquity with the Ubiquity Evolved skin

original-command.png Current version

favicon1-command.png Option 1

favicon2-command.png Option 2

favicon3-command.png Option 3

The Poll

Please vote for your favorite option and look forward to seeing Ubiquibot in a browser near you!

(For those of you reading this through a feed reader or planet and don’t see the poll widget below, please visit the permalink to participate.)

  1. For those of you who are wondering, Option 2 is just a wee bit bigger in scale than Option 3, and thus has brighter eyes but is a little cut off on top. ↩