MetaChat - Favicon, part II

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23 May 2005

Favicon, part II So, more to chew on: I've added Wendell's (2a), but the problem I have with this one is that without the ears showing up so well, it's hard to tell it's a bunny - it looks more like a bear to me. I've also modified the original bunny image to be a bit more elegant (2b); I tried about a dozen different things to get a pancake in there as well, but they all looked like doody. The closest I could manage to a non-doody was 2c. Plus I added two more possibilities: a very simple "MC" for MetaChat (3), and a stylized pancake, with butter (4). (I totally threw out the bunny head, which we all agreed wasn't good).

post by: taz at: 06:19 | 22 comments

I vote for the orange.

posted by dhruva 23 May | 06:32

oops i meant pancake with butter :)

posted by dhruva 23 May | 06:33

No 4 reminds me of tubgirl.

posted by dodgygeezer 23 May | 06:46

uh-oh.

posted by taz 23 May | 06:50

ok i hastily change my vote.

posted by dhruva 23 May | 06:54

I like the MC best - very easy to spot in a long list of bookmarks. If you're really after a pancake-wearing bunny icon, maybe use the head instead of the whole bunny?

I would whip something up myself if my computer hadn't crashed last week. I haven't had time to reinstall all of my software yet.

posted by iconomy 23 May | 06:56

I like 2b, or the bunnyhead a la iconomy's suggestion. The MC does win in the easy to spot category. Oh, now I'm imagining MC Bunnyhead at the microphone. Thanks.

posted by safetyfork 23 May | 09:16

I also like the orange pancake, but then again I've never seen tubgirl.

posted by anastasiav 23 May | 09:27

2b is nice; the pancake reminds me too much of rottentomatoes.com. MC is good but kinda boring.

posted by matildaben 23 May | 11:11

i second iconomy in every way. if there isn't a rush to pick, maybe i can find the time, install software and help come up with something as well (but then, maybe just doodle gifs of ideas for someone else to run with)

just a thought, no promises

posted by ethylene 23 May | 12:49

There's no rush to pick, I think. I'm sure we'd all be happiest if we could see everybody's ideas.

posted by taz 23 May | 12:53

(plus, just for myself, I'm not really wild about any of the ones I've come up with so far...)

posted by taz 23 May | 12:54

but i'm just wild about tazzy
and she's said she's wild about me

and she's just wild about, i'm just wild about
we're just wild about
period

posted by ethylene 23 May | 13:11

2b or not 2b? 2b it is!

posted by deborah 23 May | 14:42

hah! deborah, that's the most fun I've had so far with favicon!

posted by taz 23 May | 15:14

I didn't put all that much effort into my 2a icon (but most of that effort went into making sure the bunny's ears weren't entirely obscured by the pancake). Bunny 2b could probably handle a pancake between the ears better, but I'm not going to be the one to do it this time. On further review, I like the abstract M (#1) best, although the MC is OK too, as long as it isn't followed by a Donalds or a Hammer (or preceded by a rush or jon). And is the official MetaChat abbreviation "MeCha" or just "MeCh"?

posted by wendell 23 May | 15:16

2b. The pancake is a nice touch, but unrecognizable as a pancake at such a tiny size. 2a is nice too...

posted by shane 23 May | 18:11

I'll switch to 2b -- v. v. elegant bunny.

posted by maudlin 23 May | 19:52

i don't know how much people will wanna stick with bunnies and pancakes, but it might as well be set and changed later, rather than wait on people like me to find time--
--although which and what people prefer using to make their icons may speed me along--
people want 2 b
i kinda favor cook's m
but it's neither here nor there with me

posted by ethylene 23 May | 20:23

We need a bunny with a pancake on its head, simply because Oolong died a while back, and I nearly cried. Unfortunately, I don't much enjoy the looks of 2a. I'm gonna stick with 2b for the time being, but I seriously hope a more fit and more pancake-y competitor arises.

posted by Josh 23 May | 21:11

One.

posted by puddinghead 23 May | 22:19

2b! Or not 2b?
/confused pizza delivery boy

posted by dabitch 06 June | 03:49

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