How is the Echo Icon development going on?

[Mark]

interesting articles.


2007/3/26, Máirí­n Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>:
>
> Ben Arnold wrote:
> > One thing you could do if you're not that great is scale down anny
> > icons that are (at the moment) the largest size. The 16 and 24 sizes
> > are very important and there's already an icon there to use! I've
> > found it doesn't take that long to do, either, just remember to make
> > it clear and recognisable at the smaller sizes.
>
> Yeh, it seems like this is a big problem for the smaller-sized Echo icons.
>
> I recommend everyone working on Echo read this:
>
>
> http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_vector.php
>
> While the article shows the problems of scaling up from a small vector
> icon, the issue a lot of the Echo icons haxve is that they are scaled
> down from a large vector icon, without alignment to the pixel grid so
> the details come out muddy. This talks a little bit about the pixel grid
> if you are curious:
>
> http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/02/21/icon_design/
>
> I also recommend if you want fuller coverage for Fedora 7, work on the
> smaller icons first, then the large sizes. The larger size icons are far
> less likely to ever appear anywhere in the desktop, but the smaller
> sizes are much more likely to appear thus if they are not finished they
> will make the set look more incomplete.
>
> ~m
>
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