Comments | acopyofacopy: My texting ~policy~

acopyofacopy

My texting ~policy~

Oct 18, 2006 22:37

So I've noticed quite a few comments on my posts lately asking if people can add text to my icons. Obviously, I can't stop you from doing it and I'm not going to go psycho bitch on you if you do, I would just really prefer it if you didn't. I purposely do not add text to the majority of my icons because I think that text is the lazy way out and ( Read more... )

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sigma7 October 19 2006, 13:04:21 UTC

Okay. I seriously can't understand your opposition to text -- even though I agree with your assertion that you can tell a story with the other tools at your disposal, text is just another tool at your disposal. But it is your work, and you're entitled to it. I'm sorry I brought it up.

acopyofacopy October 19 2006, 13:29:09 UTC

I wasn't trying to bitch at you guys, I was just clearing up why a lot of my icons don't have text. Sorry if I offended you.

abdicate_it October 19 2006, 14:10:51 UTC

Generally speaking icons look better without text, especially emotional icons. THE TEXT IS UNECESSARY AND OFTEN SCREWS WITH THE SPACE IN THE ICON. Blah.

acopyofacopy October 19 2006, 22:18:18 UTC

I'm glad someone agrees.

abdicate_it October 19 2006, 23:02:41 UTC

Seriously though, if they don't like your rules then why would they take your icons? People suck dick.

akissinacrisis October 19 2006, 16:13:57 UTC

Completely agree with you - textless icons =/= bases. Using textless icons as bases just implies that something textless is worthless and can't have taken you very long, or is incomplete.

I have no aversion to text. But less is certainly more. I love "poker slut." :D

acopyofacopy October 19 2006, 22:19:07 UTC

I agree 100%. ♥

vorkosigan October 19 2006, 16:54:42 UTC

Personally, I don't like it when text is added to an icon. It's rare that I find one that has text. I think it distracts from the image itself. (And yet, I have several icons with text in this account I'm posting from right now. Go figure.)

Also, I roleplay quite a bit, and I have about a dozen icons with text among a good thirty fictional accounts. That's a very few.

You make lovely icons. Keep up the good work.

acopyofacopy October 19 2006, 22:20:14 UTC

A lot of the icons I use in my personal journal have text as well. There are very many icons out there that use text well, I just don't like how some people think that icons HAVE to have text in order to be complete.

Thank you. ♥

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acopyofacopy October 20 2006, 00:55:55 UTC

All I'm asking is that people don't add shit to my icons. I'm not going to go on a warpath and hunt down everyone that decides to do it anyway, I'm just asking politely that people don't do it.

This post was more for explaining WHY I don't use text on a lot of my icons, and if it's your opinion that adding something to a graphic (which I do to ALL of mine) isn't really a graphic, don't use my icons. I don't think I need text to make my graphics original, but that's clearly not your view.