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    TELEports. New Telegram app icon design

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      • Aury88A Offline
        Aury88 @jezek
        last edited by Aury88

        @jezek If we need a single fold probably is better to maintain only the upper one because it is based on one of the main folds/lines in the airplane (as the icon guideline says). about the dark-color it is used also to make the farther wing more dark so to give a 3d effect. tomorrow i will post some iterations of the design with the light color fold applied on the top side (or dark in the lower) so we can see what is better for the 3d effect and for the icon.

        about the single or the double fold honestly I didn't saw that the single fold style was the mainly used. My error.

        @hummlbach I don't think a little less sharp edge would be so visible with the icon sizes. vice versa if we make them more rounded (greater radius) we risk making it difficult to understand that the element is an airplane with missing pieces. we can try to reduce the number of the missing strips so to lower the number of the sharp edges

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        • Aury88A Offline
          Aury88
          last edited by Aury88

          ok, I made some design iteration based on your suggestions.

          0_1547447558053_Teleports_logo2.2.svg.png
          (2.2)Applying a light fold on the airplane doesn't make it more white (obviously) and we lost part of the 3D effect.
          So a better way is to apply a dark fold in the lower (nearest) wing.
          first iteraction:

          0_1547447592930_Teleports_logo2.3.svg.png
          (2.3) but here the shadow on the inner part of the airplane is wrong (shadow cast in the wrong direction)
          So imho is better to apply the fold aligned on another edge of the airplane :
          0_1547447711858_Teleports_logo2.4.svg.png
          (2.4) here the shadow is correctly applied.

          the last one is the case with two folds (I still like them):
          0_1547447979598_Teleports_logo2.5.svg.png
          (2.5)

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          • LakotaubpL Offline
            Lakotaubp @Aury88
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            @aury88 2.5 for me

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              rocky58 @Aury88
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              @aury88 2.5

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              • ? Offline
                A Former User @Aury88
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                @aury88 2.4

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                  GIEMME
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                  @Aury88 2.5 for me.

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                    gleblee
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                    Every icon with many elements is bad, it's too hard to recognize in the case where it small. The icon must be simple and recognizable. And if app name is far from original, then icon must point user what about this app

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                    • flohackF Offline
                      flohack @gleblee
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                      @gleblee I agree a bit here, we need actually a "smoke test" with the icon on the real device. @Aury88 can you provide an icon in desktop file format that we can add temporarily to see if it has issues of size and clarity? I agree that many small details might wash out on the tiny size.

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                      • dobeyD Offline
                        dobey @gleblee
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                        @gleblee IMO, any icon design should also not be dependent upon the background it may be displayed on, to signify what it's for. This is especially important when one wants to build apps that may be useful across multiple platforms, which have varying design guides for how app icons should fit in.

                        Honestly, to me, the whole concept of having all icons be round/square/squircle/whatever makes things worse, and they all just start to look the same.

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                        • Aury88A Offline
                          Aury88
                          last edited by Aury88

                          @flohack what do you mean with "icon in desktop file format"? on my desktop i find only .png file format.
                          what file extension do you need? what dimension(s)? where do I have to upload it/them?

                          the small details problem can be in part resolved by reducing number of (missing) airplane's parts starting from the smallest (missing) strips, but I think it's a problem only when the icon is understandable and distinguishable only thank to them.

                          PS: on my low-res computer screen with the image previews sizes reduced to minimum, the icon is distinguishable like the official telegram one (they both seem more to arrows than paper airplanes) and still is possible to "feel" there are some differences between them . clearly it's not possible to distinguish the details (3D, shadows etc but many of them, at this size, are not visible also in the official UT icons ) and is not possible to understand it's a "teleporting paperairplane"; but the icon seems still usable if you don't have another icon on a full blu backgroung with an arrow/paper airplane pointing top right. the same apply on the official logo if you don't have another icon with a arrow or a paperairplane on a full blu circle in backgroud.
                          0_1547583658379_ScreenTest.png
                          PS2: the image above is reduced and has lost more details so use it with caution. the righter icon is the telegram official logo and I think the same icon used on smartphones.

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                            hummlbach @flohack
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                            @flohack I tried right away how it looks like, so I can provide some screenshots again πŸ™‚
                            1_1547587939150_screenshot20190115_222940548.png 0_1547587939147_screenshot20190115_222837877.png

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                              Aury88 @hummlbach
                              last edited by Aury88

                              @hummlbach thank you !
                              it's really interesting to see how on my smartphone, despite the smaller screen and image size, more details remain visible compared to the same image on my laptop screen .... the next laptop will be an ultra-HD xD

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                              • madsrhM Offline
                                madsrh @Aury88
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                                Hello everybody!

                                Going back to this comment, IMHO the version without the "stripes" works best πŸ™‚

                                As @gleblee said:

                                Every icon with many elements is bad, it's too hard to recognize in the case where it small. The icon must be simple and recognizable.

                                +1

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                                  A Former User
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                                  +1
                                  I think the logo needs to be more and more clear, not more complicated. Otherwise, it’s really "terrible".

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                                    mirakulix
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                                    I made 2 versions: v1 is Telegram-Style and v2 is UBports-Style ☺

                                    v1
                                    teleports_v1.png

                                    v2
                                    teleports_v2.png

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                                      Sander @mirakulix
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                                      @mirakulix I like the one in UBports-style!

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                                        mirakulix @Sander
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                                        @Sander-Klootwijk said in TELEports. New Telegram app icon design:

                                        @mirakulix I like the one in UBports-style!

                                        Thank you! Yes I think the icon fits the name TELEports..

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                                          MK73 Global Moderator
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                                          Hi, the topic is closed. Decision made. Thanks for your contribution and inspirations.

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