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    • L Offline
      longaius
      last edited by

      Last 3 icons

      Now should be a full set…

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      • L Offline
        longaius
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        A test of black & white icons in website.
        Also with added grey background

        Some adjustments to icons would be good to get tonal balance between icons better.

        _site.jpg
        _site1.jpg

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        • SuitAndTieXS Offline
          SuitAndTieX
          last edited by

          I have a few suggestions:

          Could you make the icon for Black and Asian in the style of Latino and Middle Eastern? Showing some of the shirt, I mean.

          And the Mature seems to have a slightly deformed head, not well rounded …

          Could you try to make these adjustments ??

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          • JokerJ Offline
            Joker
            last edited by

            the icons should have no black background.. it should be transparent.
            but the colors, you might use could be vary.. not only white or grey..
            at least my opinion

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            • L Offline
              longaius
              last edited by

              Icon updates…

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              • L Offline
                longaius
                last edited by

                @Joker:

                the icons should have no black background.. it should be transparent.
                but the colors, you might use could be vary.. not only white or grey..
                at least my opinion

                I am not sure if transparent backgrounds to icons will work / look good? As the backround will then be the grey used on the website.

                Could easily have different colors, something I will test. But it might make it more messy…

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                  bearbearbear
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                  @longaius:

                  I suppose we could use a world map for ethnicities…

                  That would be better than the ridiculous and offensive caricatures, especially the Asian and Middle Eastern ones.

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                  • L Offline
                    longaius
                    last edited by

                    Cartoon icon update

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                    • ben351500B Offline
                      ben351500
                      last edited by

                      That would be better than the ridiculous and offensive caricatures, especially the Asian and Middle Eastern ones.

                      I agree; let's try to stay away from racial or cultural caricatures.

                      As a map lover, I would say go for some sort of map, but remember that these icons are going to be small, so the more details you add the more cluttered the icon will be. I would again like to stress the maxim:

                      Less is more.

                      There's no need to fancy stuff up when it is neither necessary nor functional.

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                      • L Offline
                        longaius
                        last edited by

                        Less in a icon becomes more of a caricature.

                        For races might be best to just have text.

                        map seems to work at small scales
                        Especialy if some color is added.

                        Now does Latino include USA or not?

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                          longaius
                          last edited by

                          Have adjusted balance in these icons

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                          • JokerJ Offline
                            Joker
                            last edited by

                            while those icons still under discussion, can i kindly ask the author to create SVG images ?
                            If we use this very Modern Vector Format we can scale those images to all sizes without having any quality loss.

                            Could you please check this one here: https://www.gaytor.rent/2.0/gtlogo.svg

                            this is already SVG

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                            • SuitAndTieXS Offline
                              SuitAndTieX
                              last edited by

                              @longaius:

                              Less in a icon becomes more of a caricature.

                              For races might be best to just have text.

                              map seems to work at small scales
                              Especialy if some color is added.

                              Now does Latino include USA or not?

                              I agree with you, I believe that ethnicities should be represented only by words.

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                              • SuitAndTieXS Offline
                                SuitAndTieX
                                last edited by

                                @Joker:

                                while those icons still under discussion, can i kindly ask the author to create SVG images ?
                                If we use this very Modern Vector Format we can scale those images to all sizes without having any quality loss.

                                Could you please check this one here: https://www.gaytor.rent/2.0/gtlogo.svg

                                this is already SVG

                                What font did you use? It would be interesting to use the same font in the images of the categories

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                                  dudesplat
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                                  Nice to see a couple of changes!

                                  Just realized why the 'file' popup lingers so long - the DIV for files is as wide as the column not the text (extra cm each side). I get a browser Loading cursor, and by the time the popup has loaded the mouse is outside the element and not triggering events.

                                  I assume the images popup using FileListTip is quite different to file's NewTipOut as images doesn't have any issue vanishing if you aren't near the popup zone anymore.

                                  Looking good!

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                                  • SuitAndTieXS Offline
                                    SuitAndTieX
                                    last edited by

                                    I was thinking and if we were to consider the hypothesis of the categories being represented only by text, we could do it as follows:

                                    Starting from the idea that this is a gay site and the LGBT flag has 6 colors, which are: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.

                                    We could create 6 Main Categories: Physical, Age, Entertainment, Ethnicity, Sex and Fetish, for example. Each Main Category would be represented by one of the colors mentioned above.

                                    After defining which color would represent each category, we would transform the existing categories into subcategories and distribute them among the main ones:
                                    Physical: Hunks, Bear, Twinks …
                                    Age: Mature, Old and Gray, Youngblood ...
                                    Entertainment: TV, Books, Magazine, Comic, Games ...
                                    Ethnicities: Asian, Latino, Black ...
                                    Sex: Anal, Bareback, Oral, Orgy, Solo, Straight ...
                                    Fetish: Uniforms, BDSM ...

                                    The icon would be very discreet: It would have a transparent background, the name of the subcategory with a font in white and an underline of the color defined for the category. I put some models that I made attached, but it's just the basics, it would be interesting to define a cool font later.

                                    And there is also the possibility to rename, unify and create new categories as mentioned earlier, to be able to better represent or cover more things with a single category

                                    Amateur.png
                                    Asian.png
                                    Hunks.png

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                                      bearbearbear
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                                      @SuitAndTieX:

                                      I was thinking and if we were to consider the hypothesis of the categories being represented only by text, we could do it as follows:

                                      Starting from the idea that this is a gay site and the LGBT flag has 6 colors, which are: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.

                                      We could create 6 Main Categories: Physical, Age, Entertainment, Ethnicity, Sex and Fetish, for example. Each Main Category would be represented by one of the colors mentioned above.

                                      After defining which color would represent each category, we would transform the existing categories into subcategories and distribute them among the main ones:
                                      Physical: Hunks, Bear, Twinks …
                                      Age: Mature, Old and Gray, Youngblood ...
                                      Entertainment: TV, Books, Magazine, Comic, Games ...
                                      Ethnicities: Asian, Latino, Black ...
                                      Sex: Anal, Bareback, Oral, Orgy, Solo, Straight ...
                                      Fetish: Uniforms, BDSM ...

                                      The icon would be very discreet: It would have a transparent background, the name of the subcategory with a font in white and an underline of the color defined for the category. I put some models that I made attached, but it's just the basics, it would be interesting to define a cool font later.

                                      And there is also the possibility to rename, unify and create new categories as mentioned earlier, to be able to better represent or cover more things with a single category

                                      I agree with the use of text and color only.  I hate to say that after all of the work that obviously went into the icons with the illustrations, but the whole point of a pictogram or ideogram is that text is not needed.  However, the meaning of most of the icons would be difficult to figure out if they didn't also have text.  That makes the illustrations more of a distraction than helpful.

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                                        longaius
                                        last edited by

                                        Ok
                                        Here are the text only icons with an underline of color as would look on smartphones.

                                        I would say the underline of colour needs to be fatter to be able to be seen. Especially on phones.

                                        It looks as if one could use smaller hieght tiles but the square tile is better to touck on on phones.

                                        NOTE
                                        The off center of the list is how it is displaying at present.
                                        I would say centering them would look better.

                                        Also note:
                                        Category icon tile size in this category list appears at 60 x 60 pixels

                                        _phone_text only.jpg

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                                          longaius
                                          last edited by

                                          And if colored tiles were used it would look like this

                                          _phone_text blocks.jpg

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                                          • SuitAndTieXS Offline
                                            SuitAndTieX
                                            last edited by

                                            @longaius:

                                            Ok
                                            Here are the text only icons with an underline of color as would look on smartphones.

                                            I would say the underline of colour needs to be fatter to be able to be seen. Especially on phones.

                                            It looks as if one could use smaller hieght tiles but the square tile is better to touck on on phones.

                                            NOTE
                                            The off center of the list is how it is displaying at present.
                                            I would say centering them would look better.

                                            Also note:
                                            Category icon tile size in this category list appears at 60 x 60 pixels

                                            I particularly liked their result with the transparent background and I agree when you say that underlining needs to be fatter. I think that if you make the underline a little fatter and without any color degradation effect, it should be much better.

                                            As for the colors, I found the colors very vivid, very prominent, looking at them on a website where the background is predominantly dark, it doesn't look very nice.

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