i made some icons to help with a common issue

sixdripb@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 467 points –

https://gitlab.com/sxwpb/minimal-tux-icons

These are only meant to help for cases where the full tux is too detailed to display, see examples in the linked README. But the shape also works well for single fill cases, like in the keychain example. I wouldn't want these to be used when the full tux could be displayed in all its glory instead.

One issue I have is I do not know how to license these properly, I wouldn't want them to show up in a trademarked logo or anything, but I would still want them to be freely usable as tux icons anywhere. What do you think?

I have chosen the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, thank you for helping me!

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I think these either need the beak to be a bit irregularly shaped or needs a black line inside the beak to make it more clear this isn't just a big hole in the face but an actual bird beak.

But other than that its great! And that's of course just my personal opinion, you do you!

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I need the colored one as a sticker to cover that weird square thingy on my super keys.

Ooh now I need that too.
Why can't those scummy forum scraper bots work in my favor?

Why is the white one happiest? Shit, am I a racist?

The black one has open o_o eyes but the white one has closed ^_^ eyes

I can't find it, but I have seen a video where a designer talked about how you can't just invert your monochromatic logo to make it white-on-black. There's an effect that will make several aspects of the logo feel very differently, even though it's just inverted.

Yeah, there must be something subjective going on because they all look the same to me. They all look like closed happy eyes to me.

I think you’re absolutely right… perhaps something with the effect of lighter compared to the rest = open vs darker compared to the rest = closed.

I think it’s also magnified by the fact that we’re comparing to the full color one on the right which has the lighter color for (in my perception) open eyes.

Yeah I think the black part tricks your brain into thinking "those are pupils", and the eyes go from smiley shut ones to normal open ones.

Creative Commons is exactly the tool you need for licensing; they even have a "build-your-own" customized license tool. The tool will generate an icon, text, and a link to easily understandable legalese for your license.

CC is like GPL (but more flexible) for art, and it's an awesome service.

thank you, the build-your-own thing is great, i have chosen the CC BY-SA 4.0.

This logo feels unbalanced, I don't have enough experience to say what is wrong, but it feels wrong.

Thanks for sharing. Maybe I will fork it and make it better.

Two issues I notice:

The beak looks like a wide open mouth. It does not look like a beak.

The middle icon colour scheme makes it look like it has a different expression to the other icons, like one of those squinting/extremely pleased anime faces. The expressions should match regardless of colour scheme.

I agree. Its cute but i think it lacks essential details. The monochrome versions don't look penguin enough.

Yeah, the colored version is pretty good but the monochrome needs something to make the beak a beak.

Why is the white one wobbling?!?

What?

I don't know why but like I swear it looks like the white one wobbles when on my phone screen.

No such effect for me. Some cheap Samsung AMOLED here.

Oh dude this is really awesome. Fresh.

thankyou! btw, since you're a billion dollar corp can you send me a check? cheers

LoL I'm not. Just an early Lemmy user with weird taste

I love Tux and these icons!

I now I also know how it's skull looks like :P

Honestly I hope any of these variations replace the old logo. Looks great OP! Thanks for sharing

hell no, full tux is the best, these are just simplified icons. but thanks for the compliment!!

Looks nice, thanks to show it with us :)

I could see something like this being a common use icon, it's very well done. I prefer this look to having the big bodied Tux on a small icon, this solves the problem well. Good job!

Very nice icon, would you consider contributing it to font-logos project (where a lot of FOSS projects logos are, including Tux) that is used on nerd-fonts so people can use it on their terminals? Nice to see SolveSpace being used for it. Edit: Fix typo.

oh yea that would be cool, let me see if i can do it

@hasecilu@lemm.ee I will wait for the license issue to resolve, seems better?

@sixdripb@lemmy.world Sure no problem, I'm still not 100% how to proceed, I hope in any case it get resolved before new NF release.

aw I missed the release. maybe we can get it in for the fall release. ( personally I would prefer to get it in under the right license, than in a new one or in a grey-area). thanks for reaching out back then, it would be crazy to me if people had access to this icon in neovim etc.

I'm still figuring out some things and also have been busy, eventually should be done.

no problem at all, I will try to get it in whenever it is solved, I’m in no hurry :) thx