J5 suggestion for Echo icons theme
Luya Tshimbalanga
luya_tfz at thefinalzone.com
Thu Aug 16 18:25:42 UTC 2007
John (J5) Palmieri has wrote an excellent suggestion for Echo team:
"/I should most likely bring this up on the list but as I have little
time these days (total copout :) -
Full color icons bellow 32x32 never look good and almost triple the
amount of work an artist needs to do instead of creating beautiful icons
at higher resolutions. Working with two toned OLPC icons I can say
simple icons look great at low resolution and often can mix with any
theme as long as the shapes are similar. What I suggest is to explore
doing black and white or gray scale for smaller icons and use the full
color icons where they would have the most impact. This would of course
necessitate coordinating with the desktop team so that larger icons are
used more often so that the desktop does not look drab but I think it
has a twofold advantage. First correct use of sharp black and white
icons make the desktop look cleaner and less cluttered and second, in
the long run it makes the work artists have to do much less. In fact if
all they had to do was create high quality icons in order to make a nice
looking theme there would be many more themes to choose from which
looked complete.
Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work. (BTW look at MacOS X for good
use of B/W icons/"
http://thefinalzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/summary-of-echo-icon-theme-report-on.html#comment-9152793671709311277
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