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11 May 2010 06:34 amOh for fuck's sake, how the do you find a fucking icon with some fucking text on it nowadays? Has that gone entirely out of style? I'm just trying to hunt some icons for Darker than Black and Pandora Hearts, perhaps Durarara, and I'm getting sick of all the fucking faces with cute fucking expressions. I want some conceptual icons.
Re: tl;dr theories?
Date: 11 May 2010 07:57 pm (UTC)1) I think a big part of it is because it's so hard to make it legible and fit it with the rest of the image. I never knew where to put it, what color, what type of font, and more importantly: something that fits the character(s)/scenery.
But you're pretty good at it!! You always make pertinent and aesthetically coherent icons, that's one of the thing I've always liked about your icons!
3) LJRP's popularity
Good point, and a good reason. Though not everyone's into LJRPs
4) crappy trends :(
6) I think there was a backslash against tiny text and text brushes in particular
oh boy I hated those. Whats the point of text if you can't read it x_x
7) Depending on the fandom, but there's the debate on use of Japanese fanart
True, I seldom use fanart based icons myself because of that.
8) What do you put as the text itself?
Something pertinent and interresting! That's the whole point! Not just taking some text because you think text would look good, but making the icon for the concept of the icon you're making which must includes text!
9)Hehehehe. Yeah, me too.