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36x13 is the smallest size of web badge anybody uses, from what I've been able to find. Which makes sense; this is pretty much the smallest size of image you can do anything with.

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These 15-pixel-tall deals, I've seen in message board sigs. I want each of Our Heroines to have a special icon of their own. Ally's is a top hat, as seen in the 80x15 job; Sheila's icon will be a spiked collar; and Reece's I'm not sure about, but I'm going to try to work up something that's a cross between a triquetra and a Celtic braid. It won't—can't—be complex or finely detailed, given that it's going to be used in a low-resolution image, but hopefully I can come up with something that seems far more complexificationated than it actually is.

Other sizes of web badge that are in more-or-less common use:

• 120 x 30
• 88 x 31
• 110 x 32
• 230 x 33
• 125 x 50
• 120 x 60
• 180 x 60

I'm thinking we probably don't want to go as big as 180 pixels wide. Even 120 pixels wide might be too much, I dunno?

Here are some highly relevant Photoshop files (and a couple of Sketchup 3D models), which should be of use to anybody who (a) has Photoshop (Sketchup) on their machine, and (b) wants to make their own web-badges. Control-click (if you're a Mac user) or right-clight (if you're a PC user) on a link to download that link's file onto your hard drive…

• Our Heroines: The panel from POWDER KEG that DWD used for an illustration on the Patreon page / Photoshop file
• Ally headshot: The aforementioned panel, cropped down to show only Ally's head / Photoshop file
• Sheila headshot: Ditto, except it's Sheila rather than Ally / Photoshop file
• Reece headshot: Ditto, except it's Reece / Photoshop file
• The strip's logo: What it says on the label. It's way the hell too wide and tall for web badges as it stands; but that's alright, because it's a Shape, hence it can be shrunk down to any desired extent and it'll look as good as it can at whatever resolution / Photoshop file
• Top hat 'icon': This is that Ally-associated image I mentioned above. Still need to do the 'icon's for Sheila and Reece / Photoshop file
• Badges template: The Photoshop file from which I created the badges you see / Photoshop file
• Sheila's collar: A 3D model of Sheila's spiked collar, which I built in Sketchup, for use in icons and web badges and yada yada yada. Aim the camera to get exactly the proper view of the model, take a screenshot, and trace over that screenshot in whatever your graphics app of choice happens to be / Sketchup model
• Ally's hat: A Sketchup model of Ally's favorite headgear. For use in icons, web badges, yada yada / Sketchup model

I've tweaked the existing wallpapers and added appropriate text…

• The Ally wallpaper: "Ally Mancer / Scheming master of illusions"
• The Sheila wallpaper: "Sheila Rumble / Name-taking kicker of butts"
• The Reece wallpaper: "Reece Spellman / Strangely effective psychic weirdo"
• The Reece-as-iPod-ad wallpaper: The only text on this one is the strip's logo and URL

I don't believe we have any wallpapers of Kev, but if we ever make one, I've got the perfect tag-line for it: "Strange visitor from Ghu-knows-where".

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