New icon proposals.

[David Kastrup]

I toned the stuff down (listening to Miguel's suggestions, though not
in the degree he suggested), used my own secret technique to generate
the manikin, ignored the total horrible smudgy looks at larger
magnifications and came up with the following.

Shall I check them in? They are probably not too great, but they are
mostly recognizable and somewhat more decent (60% saturation of the
red instead of 100%, and a smaller border).

[Miguel Frasson]

Post by David Kastrup
I toned the stuff down (listening to Miguel's suggestions, though not
in the degree he suggested), used my own secret technique to generate
the manikin, ignored the total horrible smudgy looks at larger
magnifications and came up with the following.
Shall I check them in? They are probably not too great, but they are
mostly recognizable and somewhat more decent (60% saturation of the
red instead of 100%, and a smaller border).

I liked them.

Miguel.

[Jan-Ake Larsson]

Post by Miguel Frasson
I liked them.

Me too.
/JÅ

[Ralf Angeli]

Post by David Kastrup
I toned the stuff down (listening to Miguel's suggestions, though not
in the degree he suggested), used my own secret technique to generate
the manikin, ignored the total horrible smudgy looks at larger
magnifications and came up with the following.

Here's what I produced last night:

[David Kastrup]

Post by David Kastrup
I toned the stuff down (listening to Miguel's suggestions, though
not in the degree he suggested), used my own secret technique to
generate the manikin, ignored the total horrible smudgy looks at
larger magnifications and came up with the following.

I think yours look a little bit more consistent and detailed.

I've checked them in, anyway. Maybe the red is still too flary, but I
won't change that again right now.

As to the "technique" I employed for the manikin: I started with for a
good picture of the original sign in high resolution, then used
potrace with some suitable settings to generate directly PGM files
with the necessary pixel widths.

The "error" signs somebody else will have to do: I have fought
Metapost forwards and backwards, with the result that

a) if I use graphic commands for filling in the exclamation mark, the
rasteriziation is too horrbole and inconsistent to believe.

b) if I use text (Courier Bold seems like a reasonable choice), I
simply can't get the thing centered.

Probably someone would again need to fiddle with bitmaps. I'd have
thought that sign the easier of the two -- ptooey.

If anybody does the sign: use the Metapost triangle I sent out
earlier, with a saturation of 0.8 of the red color.

Anyway, I have now turned to munging the autoconf scripts instead.
What a large bunch of stuff that is not there to stay...