<div dir="ltr">It started with me being exposed to what Pidgin uses as an icon to signal the nature of current OTR-connections.<div><br><div>At first some heads (?) forming a crowd of three for cleartext conversations. </div><div>Changing into one person with a warning-sign before it for unverified connections.</div><div>Verified connection are displayed as just a pictogram of one person.</div><div>For some reason this same icon changes and displays for IRC-chatrooms too, still with the OTR-settings for the last opened one-to-one conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>I ventured into the the #otr IRC-room to report on a broken link on the site, and i also mentioned how the icon-background isn't transparent, knowing that its an easy fix. Thinking maybe there might be something better to do drop into its place alltogether.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, shortly therafter: (21. march 14.03 +0100) jvoisin: we need a logo :<</div><div><br></div><div>Many designs later, some of which were novel, but not good, I had maybe fixed what I set out to solve in that it would be an improvement over the current set of icons.<br></div><div>Since that isn't good enough I made something that I think works for both icons and logo.</div><div><br></div><div>Change the colours and you have all modes. Red for "not private", Yellow for "unverified" and Green for "authenticated".<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Or, still going with two different two designations; two megaphones, an envelpe with a questionmark on it, and maybe an envelope being handed over.</div><div><br></div><div>Right now there are two instances of the same icon, one at the bottom next to the chat-field and another up top along with "OTR" in writing, on a different button to trigger the same menu.</div><div><br></div><div>What was initially a weekend job of drawing and digitizing resulted in good feedback on one design, only to protract over a month, slowly but surely passing my own judgement, steadily holding up against attempts to improve it. Some pixel-fixes later and here we are.</div><div><br></div><div>The design I made is my own, so I can license it however you please.</div></div><div><br></div><div>-Allan Nordhøy (kingu)</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otr-dev-request@lists.cypherpunks.ca" target="_blank">otr-dev-request@lists.cypherpunks.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send OTR-dev mailing list submissions to<br>
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