I really like these, I think we should keep the colours as these are for a bit, we can do a two step transition if we want to change them to the in game ones later. I can't find any source images of SC2's dice icon, unfortunately.
Also, a random icon that fits the icon theme would ba a very nice addition. Probably should scale down the Terran icon just a tiny bit. Before changing colors we need to consider the issue of backwards compability with TL and the Starcraft 1 wiki(Zerg being red in sc1 wiki, while Terran being red in sc2 could confuse some). The color and design choices should therefore primarily be aimed at easy recognition, including differentiating each fraction from one another. Readability and functionality must come above staying true to certain Blizzard design elements when it comes to these kind of essential building blocks. tofucake, Senior Editor 15:22, 19 January 2011 (UTC) Unfortunately, this leaves us with the dilemma of what to do with the Protoss icon, as yellow on white is just painful. Red for Terran and purple for Zerg, with blue for Random. I think we should try to keep the colors as they are in game. There's too much indentation so I'm starting over. An alternative would maybe be using the Akilae Tribe emblem (the default Protoss emblem)?
As for Protoss, I agree that it's hard to work with that icon in particular. Anyway, see if this is any better for brightness. There's a fansite resource? Actually I just Google'd, haha. I'm guessing you use the fansite-kit images ( ). Protoss is by far the hardest icon, it's a bit to indistinct and the contrast to the background is to small. Eagle is a bit big and dark, the Shield is hard to make out anything other than the shape. I'm split about the Terran Eagle and Shield. It's clean, clear and have a good color and contrast. Nice, I have to say that looks totally perfect. I'll be fine with changing it if you guys decide to go with that batch of icons over the pure-symbol batch. Much better IMHO except the terran shield, the highlight on that was pretty good, it's kinda too dark now. I got some cleaner source images this time, which might've helped. If you look at it some more, im sure you can get them looking great. The concept is good, but it's clear that these are scaled down from a picture format like JPEG and not directly from a vector or icon format. This is by far the best alternative i seen so far. I like them, have been thinking of a good replacement but haven't come up with any. Yeah, I took the existing images if you look up Terran/Zerg/Protoss, colorized them according to TL's race color scheme, and then resized them. I don't have a sentimental attachment to the icons though so I'll bring it up with the other staff. You mean instead of the ? An interesting idea I think the icons we have currently is taken directly from TL site to sort of tie the two together.
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