Is the "New replies" Autobot symbol different now?

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Is the "New replies" Autobot symbol different now?

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The Autobot symbol that turns green when there are new replies in a category looks different somehow. He looks... sadder. I can't put my finger on it. Still functions fine, and I'm not complaining. I'm just curious what's got him down.
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It's probably the eye size that does it.

Old:

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The old one was from a Reprolabels image but came out a bit blurry, this one's from font — i.e. originally vector. I might pixel edit it when I get chance.

I'd have said it was stoic, though.
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Denyer wrote:The old one was from a Reprolabels image but came out a bit blurry, this one's from font — i.e. originally vector. I might pixel edit it when I get chance.

I'd have said it was stoic, though.
Hmm.. it's the eyes being bigger there that throws it. It's more accurate to G1, but I see the point. The 'movie' image may have worked a bit better. :S

Edit: Actually, if it's one of mine, it MAY be that there's a stroke being drawn in black that shouldn't be there. Try drawing it without an outside stroke and see if that helps.
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Aha. Yeah, the bigger eyes and the longer downturned mouth is what's doing it. Nice to see them side by side like that. Thank you for indulging my useless curiosity. :)
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1px jump.

The (unedited) source was:

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This may probably be more work than you wanted to do for this, but could you do me a big favor and try using the glpyh from the "Optimus" font? ( http://pixelsagas.com/viewfont.php?fontid=59 ) This has my most updated version of the Autobot insignia.
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Yeah, I'd say that works better straight off:

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Very good. Glad it came out well. :)
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