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Ideas for a WebKit Icon Contest

  1. Ideas for a WebKit Icon Contest
    1. Schedule
    2. Submissions
    3. Voting
    4. Judging criteria
    5. Final icon formats
    6. Rules
    7. Guidelines
    8. Procedure
    9. Other similar contests

Note: The contents of this page represent some preliminary brainstorming about a contest to select an official icon for the WebKit project. They are not official plans and are subject to dramatic change.

Schedule

  1. Submission period: Time of contest announcement (no later than 2008-01-01) to 2008-01-11 23:59 +0000
  2. Voting period: 2008-01-14 0:00 +0000 to 2008-01-18 23:59 +0000
  3. Winner announced: 2008-01-25

Submissions

  • Entries must use contest template (which has various sizes/background colors) and be submitted as a 24-bit PNG
  • Submitted through form on webkit.org
  • Multiple images per entry (for color variations, etc.)
  • Multiple entries per entrant

Voting

  • Voting will occur for a specified period after submission period (1 week duration?)
  • Simple web-based voting
    • Votes are per email address
    • Can amend your votes as many times as you want before voting period ends
  • Voting system TBD
  • Voting open to public? (Would be nice as a tie-breaker)
  • Only reviewers' votes will be considered initially
  • Possible tie breakers
    • Public votes (if voting open to public)
    • Vector over raster?
    • Need a tie breaker that can't be a draw

Judging criteria

  • Distinctiveness and recognizability
  • ???

Final icon formats

  • Vector: SVG, EPS, Illustrator
  • Raster: XCF, PSD, PNG (24-bit), TIFF
  • Sizes (square, pixels): 16, 32, 64, 128, 512
    • Raster entries must have a minimum size of 2100
    • Optional: 24, 48, 256

Rules

  • Entrant retains copyright? (We do this for source contributions, but may depend on the license we choose.)
  • Entrant must be an individual? (​SVG logo contest did this)
  • Entry will be licensed under TBD license
  • Entry must be original, contain no work owned by a 3rd party
  • Entries will be judged by WebKit reviewers as of start of contest announcement

Guidelines

  • Prefer open and/or vector format
  • Consider monochrome, CMYK

Procedure

  1. Run contest guidelines by webkit-dev for feedback
  2. Put contest page on webkit.org w/ guidelines+rules
  3. Announce contest on blog w/ schedule, link to contest page

Other similar contests

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