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A little nerdery to distract us all from the wretched recent play of our favorite team.

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As a frequent Twinkie Town visitor who has the site bookmarked, I'm thinking it's high time we got ourselves a favorite icon.  For those of you who don't know, a favorite icon is the little picture that shows up next to the website address in your address bar and next to the site name in your bookmarks/favorites - for example, MSNBC.com has the familiar NBC peacock logo, and ESPN.com has their stylized E.  More specifically, it's a 16x16 (or possibly 32x32, but I believe it's scaled down to 16x16 in the browser) pixel image, a size that's small enough to make it really difficult to come up with something that 's both small enough and recognizable.

Anyway, I think Twinkie Town should have one.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  A snippet of the skyline view that the site uses as its logo would be okay, I suppose, although it wouldn't end up looking like much of anything at that size.  I've been thinking that a little Metrodome would be cool, but that's out of my personal range of artistic expertise.  The TC and M logos could probably be reproduced okay, but I'd assume they're off-limits, as SBNation has tried to avoid using trademarks.  I can't think of any other great Twins-centric ideas offhand, other than maybe a little Kirby Puckett face or something.

Twinkie Town, unleash your creativity!

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Maybe a tiny little state of Minnesota, but then again not all of us live in MN. How about a TC bear head? Would that infringe trademarks? Umm, a baseball. Good idea for a post.

by WITwinsfan on Jun 10, 2008 3:36 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I kind of like it

The little Minnesota is a pretty good idea, I think – even though not everyone lives in Minnesota (I’m in SD, myself), they are the Minnesota Twins, after all. A half-red, half-blue one seems like a decent idea.

I think a TC Bear would be kosher, but he’d have to be so small that he’d likely just end up looking like a generic bear.

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

by BeefMaster on Jun 10, 2008 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

good idea

been wondering why we don’t have the twinkie town icon in the favorite bar for awhile now. I guess a little metrodome would work. It would be recognizable but not an infringement.

by montanatwinsfan on Jun 10, 2008 5:09 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I dont

I have have any suggestions, but , out of all the SB Nation baseball blogs I visit, I like ‘Royals Review’ the best

I also like the current TwinkieTown logo

by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on Jun 10, 2008 6:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Good idea

This is something I can look into! I do think it would have to be the current Twinkie Town logo, but they did do a nice job of creating a pretty decent one for us. I’m very happy with the TT logo.

by Jesse on Jun 10, 2008 6:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

How about this:

If you want this favicon, just it here, and I can e-mail you the file for it.

"Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us."

by Twins Territory on Jun 11, 2008 11:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Better than I expected

It’s not really recognizable if you’ve never seen it before, but it really turned out a lot better than I’d guessed it would, and Twinkie Towners will recognize it. Nice work, good sir.

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

by BeefMaster on Jun 11, 2008 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I just wanted to say that it looks like this is possible to do on SBNation as both McCovey Chronicles and Athletics Nation have them…

"Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us."

by Twins Territory on Jun 18, 2008 8:51 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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