JRE / JDK icons

[Roedy Green]

What sort of icon would you use the represent the JRE/JDK?

I currently use a little cardboard box.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

What sort of icon would you use the represent the JRE/JDK?

I currently use a little cardboard box.

Why not the coffee cup or Duke ?

Arne

 

[Roedy Green]

Why not the coffee cup or Duke ?

I can't use Sun's coffee cup for copyright reasons, though I could use
the Duke. I could use my own coffee cup artwork. Perhaps I could
invent a big and little Duke to symbolise the big JDK and small JRE.

 

[Roedy Green]

Or perhaps Duke with a toolbox vs. plain Duke.

That's roughly what I did. I found an image of Duke holding a
motorcycle helmet which at small sizes just looks like a blue blob. I
used that to symbolise the JDK.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html

 

[Roedy Green]

Coveralls vs. a business suit.

Here are the instructions I gave to the artist:

I would like to get two more icons made to donate to public use.
They are both based on the public domain Duke character.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/duke.html
Via that link you can get many sample images and 3D models.

They will look very roughly like this:

(can't include here. see http://mindprod.com/image/icon48/jre.jpg
http://mindprod.com/image/icon48/jdk.jpg)

jre jdk

The JRE version should be dressed in a business costume or possibly as
an athletic runner -- whichever you can convey clearly at small sizes.

The JDK version should be dressed as a carpenter carrying a tool box.

the JRE version should give the impression of being stripped down from
the more substantial muscular JDK.

It is important you can easily tell the two images apart at small
sizes. You might aid this with distinctive colours.

They should have transparent backgrounds.

Please give me a quote.

 

[Roedy Green]

You can use it on your own computer, IMO.

I'm thinking of of icons to be used generally on websites to represent
the JRE and JDK. This is one of the hurdles that confuses potential
Java users.