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many kinds of icons... instant visual recognition is the key

many kinds of icons... instant visual recognition is the key

Posted Oct 20, 2005 7:49 UTC (Thu) by mcm (guest, #31917)
In reply to: many kinds of icons... instant visual recognition is the key by zblaxell
Parent article: A pair of desktop initiatives

> Someone once asked me what the Firefox icon looked like. I said "It looks
> just like the one beside the text 'Mozilla Firefox' in the menu named
> 'Internet.'" Interestingly enough, on my machine at this moment, it's a
> blue-green circle type logo (I think it's supposed to be a stylized picture
> of the Earth), and has no trace of any color similar to orange.

FWIW, mozilla.org only allows official builds to carry the official firefox icon (stupid, i know ...)


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