Icon-icon all day

[j4]

It was lovely of lizzip to make me a classy music icon -- and thanks also to besskeloid for a cool suggestion -- but in the end I decided I wanted to make my own.

So I toyed with the idea of producing a blue-washed photo of myself à la Joni Mitchell, but couldn't be bothered trying to take new photos and couldn't find any suitable ones. I failed to produce a satisfactory Badger Mask Replica -- the idea still appeals, but all my attempts were too lame even to post here. I was briefly quite pleased with this rather generic one:



until I realised that when it was reduced to LJ-icon size the writing was so tiny as to be illegible. Finally came up with the icon you should see on this post, which is just about recognisable and, I think, just naff enough to suit me. :-)

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Music typesetter? I'd've just stolen a random treble clef image from somewhere on t'internet...

It's a neat idea, though... aw, tiny badger faces. :)

[simont]

I wrote a music typesetter when I was about fifteen, and revised it five years later so it didn't crash all the time. It isn't world-class, but it did mean that I had already stolen a decent set of musical symbol outlines from somewhere, so when I thought "now where can I find a treble clef" my first thought was to use the one I already had rather than Google.

(Also, being an outline description, it had the useful advantage of being able to scale conveniently to precisely the size I wanted. Unfortunately, it proved very hard to deal with the aliasing issues...)