{"id":233,"date":"2005-12-22T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=233"},"modified":"2005-12-23T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T14:04:58","slug":"icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/icons\/","title":{"rendered":"icons — please vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time I’ve had making a “favorites icon” (“favicon,” for short) on the long to-do list for this site. These icons are small images, just 16 pixels by 16 pixels, that can appear in bookmarks for a Web site and in the address bar. In some browsers, such as Opera<\/a>, they also appear on the browser tabs, which is a nice touch. <\/p>\n

Probably the most common look for icons is achieved by incorporating a letter of the alphabet: Yahoo\"Yahoo's , Google \"Google's , Opera \"Opera, the New York Times<\/i> \"New , Forumosa<\/a> \"Forumosa's . <\/p>\n

Some icons use Chinese characters: Wenlin<\/a> \"Wenlin's , No-Sword<\/a> \"Chinese .<\/p>\n

And some are more abstract or pictorial: Notetab text editor \"Notetab , the Panda’s Thumb \"The, Photo Net \"Photo . <\/p>\n

This being the sort of site it is, I’m not going to use a Chinese character — not unless I could fit romanization in as well. And I doubt that can be done within a 16 by 16 square. <\/p>\n

Ideally, I’d like to have something in the style of Xu Bing<\/a>‘s “new English calligraphy<\/a>.” Here’s roughly the effect I’d be shooting for:
\n\"the<\/p>\n

(That’s “P-I-n-Y-I-n”, in case you’re wondering.)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, however, that sort of thing doesn’t work very well when reduced down to icon size. About the best I could come up with is this: \"icon . But I’m not so sure about that. <\/p>\n

I’d like to get input from my readers. Which of the following do you prefer?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. <\/li>\n
  2. — largely the same as no. 1<\/li>\n
  3. — the P is light green<\/li>\n
  4. — the P is white<\/li>\n
  5. — faux Xu Bing<\/li>\n
  6. other (please specifiy)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please let me know what you think with a comment here or through e-mail. <\/p>\n

    If you have an image you’d like to use for your site’s icon but don’t have the software to turn it into icon format, you could try this online favicon generator<\/a>. It will reduce your image to the correct size and put it in .ico format. <\/p>\n

    Then place the resulting image, which should be named favicon.ico<\/code> for maximum browser compatibility, in the root directory of your site. To make Internet Explorer happy, you could also add the following to the head of your HTML:
    \n<link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n

    In other Pinyin Info image news, I’ve added a script to the Pinyin Info home page<\/a> that will put up random images and links to readings on this site. I hope it helps let people know that there’s a lot more on this site than might appear at first glance.<\/p>\n

    Finally, since logos and icons are often associated with “ideographs,” this seems like a good place to recommend John DeFrancis’s reading on the ideographic myth<\/a>, for anyone who hasn’t read that already. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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