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Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#1: Oct 1st 2017 at 12:34:16 PM

Don't know if this is the right place to ask in, but namespace icons did go here once. And I know that the article I'm linking to doesn't exist.

Anyway, the VisualNovel namespace doesn't have an icon, and I have two suggestions:

The lawyer badge from Ace Attorney:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aa5badge.png

And Monokuma's head from Danganronpa:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ytxz9gpxg1yws7wr8cz3m5l9jbg_sai84q2qtr9ohzo.png

Since those are the two most popular visual novels. What do you think of them? Do you have a suggestion of your own? When's the soonest a namespace icon can be applied?

edited 1st Oct '17 12:36:27 PM by Piterpicher

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#2: Oct 1st 2017 at 8:25:14 PM

I think new namespace icons are waaaaaay down on the priority list for the next big site update.

Yugnat Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3: Oct 4th 2017 at 12:38:05 AM

Either way, I'm not too fond of those suggestions. Not only am I not a big fan of using an existing franchise as a media icon, I don't think Ace Attorney and Danganronpa ar really iconic representatives of the visual novel genre, despite their undeniable popularity. They're more "hyrbid" visual novels than pure visual novels. I feel Katawa Shoujo would work far better in that regard, even though I'd rather go with a franchise-neutral icon, like a silhouette with a textbox under it or something like that.

edited 4th Oct '17 12:38:17 AM by Yugnat

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#4: Oct 4th 2017 at 12:47:17 AM

Namespace icons are tiny, and a silhouette with a text box is probably too large. I don't think we can get out of this with a franchise neutral icon.

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#5: Oct 4th 2017 at 2:13:49 AM

I don't know, something in the vein of this would seem fine enough to me.

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#6: Oct 4th 2017 at 9:46:30 AM

If we cut the background, it's size will be 19X22. I think the limit was 16X16.

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#7: Oct 4th 2017 at 8:45:40 PM

[up][up] That seems good, if we can downsize it to 16x16.

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Yugnat Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#8: Oct 4th 2017 at 11:34:05 PM

That was just a quick mockup, so obviously not perfectly to size. Just to show how I envisioned the icon, and that it could probably work at icon-size.

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#9: Oct 19th 2017 at 2:52:07 PM

I'm gonna go ahead and lock this; if/when we get around to discussing new icons, we can re-open it.

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