Re:Ask HN: Who designed the graphics for your web app, and w...
by karmaVS on Thursday October 16, 2008 @01:49AM
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I have a particular dislike for that icon set. Things that are shiny are too shiny and things that aren’t shiny look flat. It also has a bad case of Apple envy; but is nowhere near up to the OS X icons’ standard.
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Re:Ask HN: Who designed the graphics for your web app, and w...
by SwellJoe on Thursday October 16, 2008 @02:59AM
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Agreed. There are better LGPL sets. We mostly use Nuvola by David Vignoni, though I've grown a little tired of its cartoonish looks, and David has since done better work (but none as complete as Nuvola...we paid for development of a couple dozen of the Nuvola set, so it's complete in ways that no other is for our purposes).
Re:Ask HN: Who designed the graphics for your web app, and w...
by tocomment on Thursday October 16, 2008 @09:54AM
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Do you know of any more sets like this?
Re:Ask HN: Who designed the graphics for your web app, and w...
by unalone on Thursday October 16, 2008 @11:54AM
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The thing about the Apple icons is that they're all surprisingly well thought-out. Despite the general joke, they've very rarely overshiny and that gives them a really nice, solid feel. Things like the default Leopard folder and the TextEdit icon are entirely non-shiny. So when people aim to out-Apple Apple, it feels overdone, like this icon set in particular.