On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 19:11 +0000, Andre Sousa wrote:
Yes I agree with you in those point of couse. My problem is that I haven't been able to make contrast 16x16 icons (whith blacks and whites) that look nice bigger and vice-versa. Maybe there is some technique, but I haven't figure how to do it. Maybe if we don't make the icons so "contrastfull" it may work better (like Xara ones, I think) but poorly contrast icons at size 16x16 are harder to understand... We could make two versions of the same icon (2 sizes, one small, one bigger), but we wouldn't use the advantage of using vectorial images!
Even with things like not scaling stroke width or "hinting" lines to the target resolution grid, I've come to the conclusion that you cannot create an icon that works best in tiny rasters and higher resolutions [1].
We have started creating an icon set [2] that would cover the needs of major free software graphics packages following the Tango style guidelines [3].
Once we have at least a basic coverage we'd like to start a discussion on how to build a common infrastructure to share the set between, say gimp, inkscape, sketch and diva. The style guide currently suggests three target sizes and a number of tango artists use an inkscape-only bitmap-free work flows.
You can check out the set from CVS -
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@...1414...:/cvs/tango login cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@...1414...:/cvs/tango co tango-art-libre
We'd be more than happy to see you or any other capable artists contribute to the set.
cheers
[1] http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Artwork/ScalableIcons.php [2] http://tango-project.org/ArtLibreSet [3] http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines