0.08 Icons/Images - Help Wanted! (Page 3 of 5)

Get rid of the og...

I wierdly like the rest. Another update, when not late and sober

Last edited by jampe (2008-12-02 15:26:26)

Last edited by jampe (2008-12-02 16:35:37)

Interesting icons, kind of steampunk. I like them and I'll keep them in mind. Maybe one day Cog will support Xtras similar to Adium. I'm very fond of the current icon though. I'll probably drop the Cog text, replacing it with a badge showing the current status (stop, play, pause). However, seeing as how the original for the current icon is raster and not fully scalable, I'll either need to get the current one remade or pick a different one.

Last edited by jampe (2008-12-04 10:16:06)

Oh, yes, I should have asked "what has a music player to do with a cog wheel" :-)

I would only like to suggest to take into high consideration the appearance of the icon when scaled down and put in the Dock, about 40x40 px.
Having a great hires icon that looks horrible most of the time make no sense.
The icon with the note, for example, was terrible.

The latest icon is the least HIG aware icon ever seen: you don't understand what it represents unless you already know it,  the colors are the worse for people with less than 20/20 eyesight and when reduced it loses details and becomes even more confused.

They are called icons because they are not paintings or technical drawings! They must be simple, clear, without small details required for the understanding (-> Textedit has lines of text in the page, but they are useless, the pen and the page are enough).

The icons with the cog wheel are good: no small details needed to understand the icon, clear icon (the symbol inside requires no explanation and is clear also when reduced in size), strong contrast.

Why making things complicated if not needed?