Shireroth

OK, I'm working on some Shirithian-ish icons to replace the phpBB-y ones. Comments/critique here, please.

First off: The email icon bears the mark of the email service provided by Google, the Bringer of Knowledge, the bearer of the Sword of a Billion Truths, Patron of True Seekers, and Provider of Many Other Nifty Things. May his Cease-and-desist letters never befall upon us for this action. I'm feeling lucky!

The PM icon is a fax machine, to honor Fax, the God of Communication, Patron of fax machines, etc. etc..

The icon for edit bears a moose along a hypotenuse, to honor Hypotomoose, the Moose-Demigod of Miscalculations, the cause of many occasions where one has to edit a post.

The icon for quoting is marked with the holy markup-sigil of Tex, God of Documents and Writing, who surely is present in any discussion where people quote others.

I couldn't think of any religious symbolism for the profile icon, so now it's a fish. Maybe it's even Fish, the Demigod of Goldfish, one of the Fish of Balgurd, though I don't quite understand why the thought of that is making me feel so hungry.

Perhaps the Dolphin in you?

Maybe.

The icon for online honors Viviantia, the Goddess of Life, by incorporating a version of the Sefirot, or the Tree of Life, although I doubt even Scott could identify it. Ah well. Maybe someone should come up with an icon for Viviantia?

I think I get the reference... at least...

Good work Ari.. once again.. proving how awesome you are..

As a celebration of the holy marriage of Mors and Viviantia, the icon for offline users is a scythe, the symbol of death.

And finally, to honor Frank T. Dugford, the Demigod of Canned Fruit, the icon for closed threads or forums is now a can of fruit (with a mango on it if there have been posts on that thread or forum).

I think I'm done creating icons for tonight.

<- Google
<- Fax
<- Hypotomoose
<- Tex
<- Fish
<- Viviantia
<- Mors
<- Frank T. Dugford
<- Frank T. Dugford again

Very good work!

*dissents!* (*knows how painful this is, though*) I can barely read those buttons! Cursive-decorative red text on textured blue = ow! ow! ow! Did I mention ow?!

*expects to be smitten now*

(I love the icons you picked out to denote the functions, though - very cool!)

This... needs to be fixed! Any ideas on a new colour scheme, or should I create another style with the original subsilver icons?

I can read everything

Yeah, but different people have different eyes and different monitors. Since the icons seem alright to me, I can't really be the judge of what kind of icons would look good on Neike's monitor.

Anyway, for what it's worth, two new icons in the current style:

<- AIM is represented by a Golden Apple, because I had to put in an Eris reference in there *somewhere*. Besides, it clashes nicely with the fact that AIM is basically *the* traditional IM network used by Shirithians, and CLASHING WITH TRADITION IS WHAT ERIS WANTS! *ahem*

<- the icon for MSN honours Bob, the Demigod of Underused Names, and Microsoft's earlier admirable attempts to spread the gospel of Bob.

Aaand... hm... I was thinking of Señor Mysterioso for the WWW icon, but I can't find anything on the web that still looks like a cat when it's been shrunk to 19x19...

Great, great, great stuff Ari... such wonderful works you are doing for Shireroth... well done! And thanks!

<- there, the WWW icon now has the likeness of the Cat-Demigod of Parking on it. I'm not sure if anyone else sees the connection between parking and websites, but...

Jonas wrote:I can read everything

I can read everything, too, just not easily. I actually think it's more of a problem with the font than it is a problem with the background, per se. (Providing it's even a problem - I am, after all, seemingly the only one nitpicking here.) Anyway, I've played around with it a little and think it might already help a lot if the text had a flare.

Thoughts?

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Very nice icons. It's great to see a nation actually put effort into their own design rather than just ripping off existing ones!

You were right, Neike. I updated all of the icons with a black flare around the lettering (now you're thinking with layers), the icons look a lot cleaner, neater and easier to read now .

Oh, wow, Ari! This is awesome now!

*echoes Andreas' statements enthusiastically*

And, obligatory pun-expansion:
The font is a lie!

They do indeed look a bit cleaner...