I made a huge thumbnail pack ...
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@ncristian If you want, I can try again with a simpler one, and try to take a photo of the site itself, but I think yours is really good.
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@jrasmussen Done! Look for the following:
sd_alternet
sd_commondreams
sd_madison
sd_losangelestimes
sd_mcclatchydc
sd_motherjones
sd_thenation
sd_therealnews
sd_wisconsineye
sd_wispoliticshttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
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@jrasmussen Sorry about that! Doesn't look like it went through. It should be good now. Try again: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
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@Sijera Done! Look for the following:
sd_majorgeeks
sd_neowin
sd_snapfiles (I couldn't find a good photo for this one, so it'll have to be the logo from the site itself)
sd_filehippo
sd_nationalgeographic
sd_livetennisranking
sd_airdroidhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
Are there any other sites you would like thumbnails for?
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@Steffie I think I do recall your disinterest in custom thumbs. No problem, the thumbs are always there if you want. They're sized to 440 x 360, which is the same as the stock thumbnails that Vivaldi makes. But yes, I can't wait to see what automatic-generated thumbs bring. I remember them from when I first tried Opera.
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Here are some thumbnails that I've made.
@D0J0P feel free to add any that you want to your thumbnail pack. It's better to have a master list than a bunch of different links. There might be a few duplicates.
Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
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@ugly Wow, these look great! I'll have to look at them all and check to see how they compare to the official logos, but I'll let you know when I'm done that. With 41 great thumbs, I don't know how long that'll take, but I'll check it out. Thanks!
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@ugly Done! I took some time to try to finish looking at as many of them as possible. Almost 10 of them I didn't include because they were either already covered by Vivaldi's stock thumbs, like ARS Technica, or I couldn't tell what that website was by the thumbnail. So without further ado, look for the following:
sd_addic7ed
sd_camelcamelcamel
sd_Canlii
sd_circle
sd_coinbase
sd_couchpotato
sd_gnoosic
sd_isthereanydeal
sd_lifehacker
sd_mediastinger
sd_linuxmint
sd_mythtv
sd_nhl
sd_pfmonkey
sd_protonmail (1,2,3 and so on, as these were done a long time ago)
sd_questrade
sd_rage3d
sd_redflagdeals
sd_sabnzbd
sd_slickdeals
sd_tsn
sd_tsn2
sd_tv.com
sd_usenetcrawler
sd_canadianbitcoins
sd_canadiancouchpotato
sd_fakemailgenerator
sd_gemini
sd_gigabyte
sd_netgear
sd_privateinternetaccess
sd_radarr
sd_xe
sd_yifystubtitlesA lot of these I either edited or created entirely new ones for them whenever the resolution was low. There's also a bunch I had already made like NHL, Linux Mint, Protonmail(about 8 of them I believe), Private Internet Access, and LifeHacker.
Good job on these, by the way! You're really good at making thumbnails, so thanks for the contributions!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
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@D0J0P I just build off what you had done. I got the proper sizing from the original icons you made, and tried to get things close to the general look you had been doing. I wouldn't have been able to do any if you hadn't started things off.
It's not that difficult to do once you get the hang of it. I usually grab the logo from the website, if it scales well. Sometimes a Twitter feed is a good source. I try to pull a colour from the page, usually the colour that is under the logo icon. Sometimes I'll use the colour that Vivaldi changes the tab colour to.
As a personal preference, I tried to avoid using a white background or a black background to get more variety. Sometimes it led to getting some funky colour combinations.
Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
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Thank you very much for these excellent graphics - they make my Speed Dial look so much better. Is there any chance you could do one for Pinboard, or have I missed one?
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@ugly Looks good! And that's pretty much how I do it as well. I usually get the logo from the site's FB page, Twitter page, sometimes G+ page, and if it looks good, then the Google Play Store as well, which is usually easy to scale.
I try to get a non-white background as well if I can help it, but sometimes I'll have to go with it. If there was no color that came in the picture's background, I'll do the same by picking a background color from the site, to try to make everything look as official as possible. Sometimes I'll have no choice but to go with white though.
You also did a pretty good job of scaling everything! Thanks again!
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@SallyK Thanks, SallyK! Do you use a lot of my thumbs?
I created one for Pinboard now. Look for: sd_pinboard
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
Any other sites you would like thumbs for?
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Hey Guys! I've been looking a bit at V's stock thumbnails, and I love the way they look, but noticed that a few of the colors in some of them aren't the official colors used on the websites. Maybe they used to be used by the website, but not anymore. I still like the way they look, but just in case you want only the official hex colors of the website, I've created alternatives that look identical to V's stock thumbs, but with the "official" hex colors of the website's. It could be that the stock's colors are intentionally changed to be more faded, so if you don't like the more saturated colors, you can keep the old ones. Here are the differences of the few that I've created so far:
V's stock:
Alternatives with "official" hex colors as seen on the website or given as logos in the "press" section of the website:
Also, another alternative official YouTube thumbnail, provided by YouTube's official branding site:
Both of those logos are taken from that site. The one on the left is just V's stock thumb modified with the official hex code given by YouTube, but it's still one of the official logos on that site.
So if you're interested, you can look for the following:
sd_youtube
sd_youtube2
sd_youtube3
sd_twitter
sd_arstechnica
sd_booking.comEnjoy!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
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@D0J0P I'm just starting work on my Speed Dial, so I'm only using a few at the moment, but I can already see quite few useful ones.
Thank you very much for the Pinboard one - another couple that would be useful for me are
Thank you for your work on these.
Sally
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@SallyK Done! Look for the following:
sd_dreamwidth
sd_mobilereadforumshttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
If you'd like, you can also show off pictures of your Startpage!
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After going through V's stock thumbs again, I found another thumbnail that used an outdated version of a logo for Tripadvisor(first time after Facebook). Now when you need to prepare some travel plans, you can keep a current Tripadvisor thumb that looks like V's stock thumb, but uses the current version:
(left: V's stock thumb with the outdated logo | right: the most current, official version of the logo)
sd_tripadvisor
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwcOkwtCjr51T0psOHJXb0M4VmM?usp=sharing
If anyone finds any outdated or inaccurate thumbs of the official logos in mine or V's stock thumbs, let me know and I'll recreate it into the most current and official logo.
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Thank you, that's great.
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@SallyK You're welcome!
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@D0J0P Devs forgot to include "squircle" in new snapshot speeddial resources
I wonder if you could remedy that (black and red ?? ) - but I don't know where it could be sourced from. -
@TbGbe Yep, I looked in their SD thumbnail resources just to see if they had squircle icons as their thumbnails, but they didn't. I think that's mostly okay though because they've had the V in there without the rest of the icon in there the whole time. And the only squircle I can find is their 128 x 128 icon in the resources folder, and I think that's a bit small to make a thumbnail out of. So maybe they can update theirs and we can have new thumbnails.
