Finalize Icon Choice

[jwilm]

We settled on using the icon from @net. In #863, some changes were discussed including using the blue flame variant, and tweaking the stroke to make it show up better on dark backgrounds.

Tasks

• @net to tweak border
• @net to provide final SVG
• Ship icon for macOS
• Ship icon for Linux

[MarcelRobitaille]

Any updates on this?

[chrisduerr]

I think we're still waiting on @net to make the requested changes and provide the final SVG.

As far as I know he did not provide any licensing information and there also is no SVG we could work with. So unless we can get a hold of him we'd probably need to design something new.

[jedahan]

I'd love as an easter egg, to be able to keep the current variant as well, but yknow, there are definitely higher priorities.

[chrisduerr]

If @net is not available for providing the icon we chose, we might have to look for a new icon?

Maybe open up a RFC or something like this? I doubt that this issue will progress anytime soon.

[chrisduerr]

With permission of @net I've tried to reproduce the icon he's designed as an SVG (since the original was not an SVG).

Here are the results I was able to achieve:

Scanlines + Background:

Background:

Without Background:

Since I'm far from artistically capable I'm sure there are a few tweaks left to be done to make these perfect, however they should get us going and make it easy for others to have a point of reference to work with.

I've tried to incorporate the feedback about the border color directly, hopefully that's a bit better?

EDIT: It should be noted that it's hard to get a good look at the scanlines with the size this image shows up in on github. So that probably should be taken into account.

[liamdawson]

Any progress on this? I'd love to replace the generic X11 icon I get on Linux when alt-tabbing to Alacritty (#1591).

[zacps]

Just commenting here to make note that the icon Alacritty uses on windows is assets/windows/alacritty.ico and MUST be a .ico file, so whatever gets chosen should be converted.

[musm]

How come my icon does not look anything like the ones posted here

in fact it seems to be wrong in terms of the pixel size (blurry, probably due to scaling issue)

[chrisduerr]

The white background should be fixed with the latest master. There are some scaling issues with Windows but that seems to be because of issues with the .ico format.