h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I see that h2g2 smileys have a transparent background, so just to be sure: You need two versions (white/blue) with the background colour made transparent? (In the text you don't mentioned any transparency.)

I have pointed that out to Mina previously. Yes, the backgrounds to the smileys must be transparent and there are two versions of each smiley: one antialiased to white and the other to goo (#000066).

We worked through a list of smileys provided by the italics. We are not expecting another list for some time.

Then which simleys have been already done?

We did all the smileys on our last list. They were nearly all released a couple of weeks back. One or two have been held back for operational reasons.

etc.

Ah, I see. I thought you were talking about an internal list that hadn't been published so far. Anyway, when you need a racoon, mail me, I have a cute version lurking around here.

Cefpret, I'm afraid you'll only be able to do smileys if you're part of the Community Artist scheme. But you could volunteer.

Amy, I'm sorry - that must have got missed in the to-ing and fro-ing that this entry made between various people in the Towers. I'll add it now.

Mina, the problem is that I can't predict how much time I'll have. I once submitted a graphics for the HR diagram entry I had written (in both required variants) and you included it. For the *very* rare occasions when I have something to offer this probably is the better way, isn't it?

When will be the next list of smileys?

We'll have to see how it goes - now that the Community Artist scheme is running, we will only accept graphics from official volunteers.

We thought we might have a small winter collection of smileys, although that's not definite yet.