Thanks Andre, I'd love for us to get something that is in-line visually with our wikifont style. simple, and feels comfortable in-line with text. This icon appears at multiple sizes, both extremely small 12-20px and larger 24-36px so something with a lot of shading, and color is unlikely to be as durable as we need. 

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Andre Klapper <aklapper@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 16:09 -0700, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> If you've ever looked at Wikipedia articles for music, I'm sure you've
> seen the following icon:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg
> See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_Variations
> The icon is fairly sloppy and isn't even symmetrical. I tried to clean
> it up a few months ago, but I've never really been happy with it.
> While this icon is not technically part of the MediaWiki software,
> it's use on our projects is ubiquitous. If any designers feel inspired
> to create a replacement, please let me know!

"Creating a replacement": Might be worth to check if sufficient icons
are already available in distros / projects? GNOME's icon looks like
https://git.gnome.org/browse/adwaita-icon-theme/plain/Adwaita/256x256/status/audio-volume-medium.png
nowadays and is LGPL 3 + CC-BY-SA 3.0, as one example.

andre

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