Actually, varying the icons should be easier in the future when we have better support for CSS styles. Keep one icon file, and a set of stylesheets to tweak it. This would allow icon families, much the same as font families.
Bob
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, bulia byak wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:32:56 -0800 (PST), Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
I like them, they seem to fit into the GUI style better than the flourescent yellow ones currently. The partial transparency is a nice touch too. :-)
Transparency rarely works satisfactorily in icons, because icons are so small and there's simply not enough material for the eye to recognize the effect. In this particular example, what I see is just two triangles of very close shades of gray, with a rather noisy overlap area. It really takes mental effort to realize that this is supposed to be transparency.
That may be so, but I still think they look nicer than the current set.
Obviously, the best solution here would be to have a 'high contrast' theme with the flourescent yellow ones, and other themes for those that have different desires regarding contrast, style, appearance, etc.
Well... I think I have to side with Bulia on this one.
Yes, the new ones are pretty, but they're pretty to my non-color blind eyes. Look at that in light of about 1 in 10 males being color blind and... d'oh
Also... the ones that actually cross over do convey transparency once it's pointed out, but the others don't. There's some subtle tweaking needed to get things happy-happy. However, I think the main direction is good, and only the subtlties need a little tweaking.