Remaster app icon#139
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Blue-violet gradient tile with a minimal white outline clock, keeping the identity of the old blue icon with a Windows 11 look. The ICO carries 16-256px renders, with proportionally thicker strokes at the small sizes so the glyph stays legible; Images/icon.svg is the master source.
The icon it generated has been replaced by an in-repo design.
The svg master now lives beside DesktopClock.ico, the README embeds the svg directly (vertically centered in the title), and the unused png and Images folder are gone.
The 16-32px renders compensated for downscaling with strokes up to 2.4x the design weight, which read as a bold white blob in the tray. Reduce the compensation to at most 1.6x and shorten the hands slightly at 16px so the small sizes match the visual weight of the old icon.
Inline image alignment in a heading never lines up cleanly on GitHub, so switch to a centered hero header: icon above the title with the badges centered beneath.
Restore the inline heading and size the icon to the text envelope. With align=middle the icon midpoint sits at baseline plus half the x-height, which for a 32px icon next to the 32px heading spans exactly from the descender line to the cap line; the previous 36px icon overshot below the baseline and read as misaligned.
vertical-align: middle pins the icon center 3px below the optical center of the heading capitals no matter its size. Use the default baseline alignment instead and match the icon to the cap height, so its bottom sits exactly on the baseline and its top on the cap line.
The inline SVG never aligned well with the heading text, so go back to the emoji. The ico generation is documented in the PR instead.
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What changed
Remasters the app icon to match the new Fluent design from #138.
DesktopClock.icocarries 16/24/32/48/64/128/256px renders; the small sizes are re-rendered with slightly thicker strokes (capped at ~1.6x at 16px) so the glyph stays legible in the tray without turning into a white blob.Notes for review
ApplicationIcon), tray icon (IconSource), and MSI installer (Product.wxs) all referenceDesktopClock\DesktopClock.icoby path, so they pick up the new icon with no code changes.#1E58D6to#8A46D9, white outline circle at center radius 27 stroke 5, minute hand to 12 o'clock length 16, hour hand toward 4 o'clock (dx 12, dy 8), round caps.