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Re: Some suggestions
by Anon on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @15:30

I see your point, but I have to beg to differ:

Word looks like a W - and a sheet of paper
Excel looks lik a sylized XL on a spreadsheet background
Powerpoint looks like a Piechart which makes people think presentation
Access has a key, which is a symbol for locked/secured data
Outlook looks like a clock - since it's primarily a calendar
Publisher has a big P and looks like a Page layout document.

Even Office newbies understand theses symbols.

Icons/Logos should be self explanatory. Only if the company/product is big and well known it can afford abstract (albeit very, very pretty :) ) meaningless symbols.

I also think that Logos and Icons should be RELATED. That helps a lot.

Please no flame!

Thanks for helping out with ODF btw.

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Re: Some suggestions
by rat on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @17:25

I think we will have to agree to disagree.

My point is that if I saw a yellow clock, I don't think I would have considered that it was calendar program (outlook), but now that I have seen Outlook and the yellow clock a thousand times, I can associate the two.

>Only if the company/product is big and well known it can afford abstract (albeit very, very pretty :) )

I agree here. No company starts out big. And few companies change their logos significantly (key word) when they do get big.

>I also think that Logos and Icons should be RELATED. That helps a lot.

Definitely agree.

Honestly, I don't know if I'm right or not, but imho, I think the koffice logos are very nice, and I certainly respect the position that they should look more relevant to what the program does, but I just don't agree.

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