Eartrumpet: New fluent design icon suggestion for EarTrumpet.

[Donnnno]

Hi, As you may have noticed all the microsoft icons are getting updated. So I tought why not update some of my favorite open source apps as well. I've updated the icon for Quicklook a couple of days ago.
This is my first suggestion for Eartrumpet, to give it more depth and a modern look. Let me know what you think and I'm open to other suggestions :)

[riverar]

Nice work, @Donnnno. Will review with the team and get back to you soon!

[riverar]

@Donnnno We'd like to move forward with this, do you have this in vector format? There's also some concerns around contrast against light backgrounds, thoughts?

[Donnnno]

Cool! here's the vector file, it looks kinda messy inside because it was quite tricky to do the fake 3d effect right in combination with shadows and gradients. :s
I don't think light backgrounds shouldn't be a huge problem (but I could be wrong), the colors I used are from the new windows weather icon.
Here's a zip with the an svg file and my whole work file (made in Illustrator).
eartrumpet.zip

[riverar]

@Donnnno so my good friend @niels9001 gave it a spin, just a few minor things:

• icon is a bit too large
• shadows need a bit of tweaking to match Microsoft's icon (darker shadow?)

[Donnnno]

Completely agree with the two points, it looks really out of place now. I'll try to fix those things :-)

[Donnnno]

I hope this one has better sizing & shadows:
eartrumpet v2.zip

[riverar]

[riverar]

Thanks @Donnnno! Looks pretty good to move forward.

Can you submit a PR to replace our tile assets in EarTrumpet/EarTrumpet.Package/Assets/?

[riverar]

@Donnnno How's it going?

[Donnnno]

@riverar Hey! Sorry had a couple of busy weeks so I totally forgot this oops.
I'm not entirely sure witch ones to replace here :s

[niels9001]

@Donnnno You'd need to replace all of them. These assets are used for e.g. the different tile sizes, splashscreen, taskbar and for the icon that is shown in the Store.

@riverar The vector file is probably important to have, for all the assets you'd need for the Store?

[riverar]

Yeah, I'm going to take that newfangled "Visual Asset Generator" for a spin right now. If that doesn't pan out, will build some Adobe Photoshop macros.

[riverar]

Thanks @Donnnno @niels9001, after a lot of frustration, I got this done. Will be in the next update.

[Donnnno]

@riverar oof, sorry I didn't had the time to do it yesterday. Thanks for replacing the icons (:

[riverar]

@Donnnno No problem, I realized it was quite a difficult task and used it as an opportunity to provide some feedback to Microsoft. Thanks again for the icon!

[tomzorz]

@riverar I made this a looong time ago, but might still work better than what they implemented inside VS https://github.com/tomzorz/UwpBetterTileGen