Audacity 4 logo redesign thread

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The May 2026 files: New iconography by grliszas14 · Pull Request #10868 · audacity/audacity · GitHub

Personally I care about the look of:

• the icon in my taskbar in Windows
• the top left corner window icon in Windows
• the icon of files in Windows Explorer
• the tab favicon of the forums in Chrome
• the logo at the top left of the forums website

Don’t care about the big version(s) that much.

Here’s a tool for testing the icons, more or less live:

Audacity Logo/Icon Tester

Turns out the May 2026 headphones are nearly perfectly square:

Perhaps they could be trimmed like this:

or like this:

at least for the icons where squareness matters and every pixel (square 16, 24, 32… pixel sizes) matters.

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I had some fun with some of the designs:

from Audacity 4 logo redesign thread - #5 by LWinterberg

from Audacity 4 logo redesign thread - #9 by NicCrimson

from Audacity 4 logo redesign thread - #65 by hintoflime

Two non-serious attempts:

ouch.

P.S. the May 2026 design looks much better. Thanks for improving it!