[OTR-dev] OTR-dev Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

[Allan Nordhøy]

It started with me being exposed to what Pidgin uses as an icon to signal
the nature of current OTR-connections.

At first some heads (?) forming a crowd of three for cleartext
conversations.
Changing into one person with a warning-sign before it for unverified
connections.
Verified connection are displayed as just a pictogram of one person.
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.

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.

Then, shortly therafter: (21. march 14.03 +0100) jvoisin: we need a logo :<

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.
Since that isn't good enough I made something that I think works for both
icons and logo.

Change the colours and you have all modes. Red for "not private", Yellow
for "unverified" and Green for "authenticated".

Or, still going with two different two designations; two megaphones, an
envelpe with a questionmark on it, and maybe an envelope being handed over.

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.

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.

The design I made is my own, so I can license it however you please.

-Allan Nordhøy (kingu)

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> interesting idea.  Where did this logo come from?
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