These icons are all done by a graphic designer friend of mine named John Hopkins who recently bought my original 12G off me... I'm taking votes for the next official jEmplode release icon.

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and more

and last but not least (my favorite)

its a touhg call, either the first or last one.. the last one has a nice feel to it thou.. but the first one repersenst the empeg more..

What do you think to a combination of the first and last icons? Tux in front of buttons? Or Tux behind buttons?
Failing that, I reckon the last one is more individual.

I prefer the first one personally.

I love the silky look and feel of those buttons!!

The only issue with combining them is that this poor icon is going to scale down to 32x32 on windows I'm afraid to see what they look like when they're NOT combined with another.

Mike

Ah - of course. I guess Tux will be your best bet then, as he's still going to look cool.

Nice buttons though. As Mark says, very silky.

I agree... the buttons are my favorite... They could be used for all sorts of icons too...

Tux is great, but Tux alone has nothing empeg-specific on a Linux desktop. Perhaps Tux should be holding a musical note, or wearing headphones, or sitting in front of a car-player, or something?

I agree - as much as I adore Tux, the icon needs to be empeg-specific, and if we can't combine the two gifs acceptably, then my vote would be for the 'buttons' gif.

You're welcome to vote none-of-the-above if you want I can send the comments back to the guy who made him -- Crack the whip and make him go back to the drawing board (literally!)

Mike

I actively dislike them all except for the last one (the buttons).

Because all of those will translate poorly into a tiny Windows 16x16 or 32x32 icon. And besides, the tux bitmap he used was the old one anyway.

I always thought that a large stylized "J", done in the same style as the empeg "e", would be the best.

The very same "E" that my wife always mistakes for IE...

What typeface is the empeg logo?

I actually sat down with one of our graphic artists and a typeface catalog, attempting to answer that very question. I was unable to locate a common typeface that exactly matched the empeg logo. The word "Unofficial" at the top of this BBS screen is the closest I came, and it's not the right one by a long shot.

Rob? Any information on that typeface?

It's an old Acorn Archimedes font. I'm not aware of a TTF equivalent.

Rob

I like the buttons only and the mix Buttons /w/ Tux

It's an old Acorn Archimedes font. I'm not aware of a TTF equivalent.

I've found a font library of acorn fonts including converters. Do you happen to remember the exact name of the font itself?

I like the buttons....kinda...
I'd like to see tux with something empeg like...
or something like Tony is looking into would be cool...

Take a screenshot and upload it to myfonts.com. They charge for font downloads, but with the name you could find it elsewhere.

Tom

Holy cow, didn't know anyone made a service like that.

/me goes to try it out.

Damn, the page is not working. It times out when I try to use the feature, even when I use one of their example images. I have tried in both Netscape and IE.

Sorry, WhatTheFont is temporarily unavailable. Please try back tomorrow.

Damn, it worked a couple days ago!

Tom

Funny that the "temporarily unavailable" message appeared approximately three minutes after I sent them an e-mail message complaining that it timed out.

Oh, wait! Just got this in my mailbox:

"Hello Tony,
Right you are. I've restarted the service. Thanks for pointing it out!
--Christopher Lewis"

Rock.

/me goes to try it again.

Hmm. I couldn't find a good match. Funny, because I've had a lot of luck with that service before.

Tom

WOW. that is an amazing resource. I've needed that a number of times in the past after searching for HOURS for the font i needed. Thanks for that link!