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Thanks Jesse, I’ve plunked

jason — Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:18:25 -0700

Thanks Jesse, I’ve plunked it into place...

Sorry, having to work on my

Sharon Van Lieu — Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:55:51 -0700

Sorry, having to work on my site. Didn’t want to leave a dead link. Sharon

Patty, you could also select

Ricardo Cordoba — Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:52:52 -0700

Patty, you could also select the white pixels in your Photoshop image and delete them to get the desired transparency in the GIF. You’ll know they’re gone when you can see the checkerboard pattern beneath.

Photoshop to ImageReady you

jupiterboy — Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:57:25 -0700

Photoshop to ImageReady you can work with the size/number of colors of a gif. Try giving it a higher number of colors until the color doesn’t shift. I believe that in the same window you can sample the gif and let it know which color pixel you need to be transparent.

Looks right on screen to me as it is now.

Tried it, and it didn’t

pattyfab — Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:34:21 -0700

Tried it, and it didn’t work. Came out all weird looking and the color off. Oh well. I don’t know much about gifs or transparency or web stuff.

Patty You need to make the

Don McCahill — Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:22:12 -0700

Patty

You need to make the background area transparent, and save as a gif or png (jpg won’t honor transparency).

Technical avatar question: I

pattyfab — Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:02:55 -0700

Technical avatar question: I want to get rid of the white box around my round logo. I sampled the background color of the page and voila it works - within a thread. But then when it appears in the avatar parade at the bottom - which is on a darker tint, the pale grey looks like a white box again. How did those of you (Aleksander, Biddy among others) manage to silo your icons?

Here, I made you a new one,

Down10 — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:22:51 -0700

Here, I made you a new one, fitting a 60px width. Enjoy!

Hmmm. Do we tell type

Renaissance Man — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 03:37:28 -0700

Hmmm. Do we tell type designers to “follow the guidelines”?

We have always recommended

Ricardo Cordoba — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:54:26 -0700

We have always recommended 60px

The moral of this story is... follow the guidelines. :-)

ah well i guess 60 x 60 is

sayerhs — Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:12:58 -0700

ah well i guess 60 x 60 is better that 50 x 50..which is the size deviantart allows..

shreyas

More: I think my love for

hrant — Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:50:59 -0700

More: I think my love for the open-bottom binocular “g” (still easier to type out than “sesquiocular” :-) comes from a desire to shoot down convention; and replacing a stale convention with something better is a nice bonus. :-) It’s a supreme case of a subtle but significant improvement to what so many people blindly assume is the ideal form. When you think about it, the conventional binocular “g” is too complex to fit with the rest of the alphabet; it’s almost like a Chinese logograph. We -and readers- might not notice a problem most of the time, but especially when it’s doubled, it can jump out. The open-bottom one is a much more harmonious and functional solution. Danm shame most designers who use it do it merely for fashion though.

hhp

No, I’m pretty sure it’s

hrant — Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:50:50 -0700

No, I’m pretty sure it’s the horns and tail that make me tingly. But if it’s the 1.5 eyes, it still can’t be due to Baskerville, I don’t think. Was there a lot of Baskerville in late-70s Palo Alto? Because I’m pretty sure there wasn’t in early-70s or 80s Beirut... Plus I don’t even really like Baskerville’s: it’s too apologetic, too English.

BTW, I think my avatar is surviving the reduction in the page footers quite well (I do have a thing for optical scaling after all :-) although I’m not happy about the glaring aliasing in my eyebrow.

hhp

@hrant: Now THAT’S an

raph — Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:39:51 -0700

@hrant: Now THAT’S an avatar...

Naah, you just get all tingly every time you see a sesquiocular ’g’. Why is that? Was there some moment of ecstatic joy in your childhood in which a Baskerville ’g’ played a significant role?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Beautiful new avatars, everybody, btw. It’s time to redo mine. I did it as an understated visual pun around the time the first drupal redesign happened, but I think it has served its term. All these little patches of color are so happy, like a flower garden. I’ll see if I find some inspiration soon.

We have always recommended

Zara Evens — Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:37:56 -0700

We have always recommended 60px, however I think the new restriction is part of the Drupal (Typophile’s platform) upgrade. It wasn’t manually enforced.

Avatar restrictions?

jason — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:56:37 -0700

My apologies if this has already been discussed, but is there now a strict size restriction on avatars? (As you can see, mine’s chopped...)