Let's replace our favicons

Summary:

because the current ones are ugly

Let's replace our favicons

anqxyr 07 Apr 2016 07:20

This is something that's been on my mind for a couple of weeks now, but I was otherwise preoccupied to do anything about it.

The current favicons we use are ugly. Some of our translation sites have better favicons. Let's replace them.

Here are my proposed replacements:

For the main site. This one is thicker than any of the favicons currently used by us or our translation sites. I think thick lines look good when it's super small like that. You can see it in action at the stats site: http://scp-stats.wikidot.com/user:anqxyr

For staff site. This is the exact same favicon we have now, but with transparent background.

For the sandbox. Line thickness is based on the first icon. This is my least favorite of the three, but it's still way better than what we have now.

EDIT: at least in Firefox, if you right-click the image and select "view image", the favicon of the tab it'll open in will be the image itself. This is very useful to see how those favicons would appear in action.

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So, thoughts? Both on these particular icons, and on changing favicons in general? If anyone has alternative favicons they'd like to propose, I personally would like to see them.

Last edited on 07 Apr 2016 07:23 by anqxyr Show more

Re: Let's replace our favicons

Drewbear 07 Apr 2016 12:16

This is honestly something that I never thought about, but all three look good to me.

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Re: Let's replace our favicons

AdminBright 08 Apr 2016 18:38

Agreed

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Re: Let's replace our favicons

Wogglebug 08 Apr 2016 21:04

Will the black icons be visible on black backgrounds? I use a theme in Chrome that makes my tabs dark, and currently the one on the stats page just looks like a blob for me. Would a white border help that, like when you want text to show up regardless of background?

Re: Let's replace our favicons

anqxyr 09 Apr 2016 18:20

Eh, the white stuff is a large part of what makes the current icons ugly. Not sure what the best solution is. My first impulse is to do what would be best for the largest number of users, which I think my proposed icons do. And also it's not that rare for sites to have all-black favicons, and if a person does custom themes, the theme should probably take care of that somehow. But again, not sure. Ideally I'd want to have something that would look good for 100% of users.

EDIT: Alternatively we could use something like this:

But idk how I like it as the default.

Last edited on 09 Apr 2016 18:29 by anqxyr Show more