The Ubiquity Favicon: a very important question
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:
2. 
3. 
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
Current version
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
In Ubiquity with the Ubiquity Evolved skin
Current version
Option 1
Option 2
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.)
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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. ↩
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- Localizing Commands for Ubiquity 0.5
- The Ubiquity Persistence Project: exploring a persistent Ubiquity in the toolbar
- Ubiquity Commands by The Numbers
- Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation Demo
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June 19th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Still think the current icon is the best of the four
June 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I like the option #3. Just voted for it right now.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I you'd make contrast bigger, I'd vote. Now I won't. They just look the same to me.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Cropped icons lose a feel for the overall thing present in them, which leaves #3 by default as the best choice.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am
3 gets my vote I would also try one with out the body just the round head
#3 with the body look like small feet maybe that's what you wanted ?
June 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I like the current one the most, because it is easiest on the eyes and doesn't distract as much.
I love the new Logo and it has been very well designed. But it isn't very memorable as Icon.
No. 1 falls out of the competition, because in my opinion, every icon, which cuts off the sides of an image isn't appealing at all. It looks cheap and feels cheap (bad design). No. 2 and 3 on the other hand are just too similar to choose a winner from
June 19th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I like #3, but just the head! Get rid of the body on #3!
June 19th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I voted #3 and like others think it would be best as just the bots head.
June 20th, 2009 at 4:14 am
3 without body would be awesome
2 without body would be alright as well
1 freaks me out (please do not go with this one)
June 20th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Hmm … I'm going to go think out of the box here and support Option #1. The close-up of the Ubiquibot makes him (it?) seem smiling, friendly and helpful. The other two, while they are "full headshots," (supposedly a good design choice) make Ubiquibot look like a cold, balding nerd. No offense to any cold, balding nerds out there.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Leave the current icon. All the new ones are ugly.