Hmmm, while I do agree with Oliver and Michael about the Gestures symbol, it is very hard to think of something else in its place. I think the Trackpad works. :-)
Yeah, maybe you're right guys — trackpad is not an obvious icon for gestures. It was made just for practice and actually labels were added after I made an icon. And I still like it. Maybe I just should add some dots on it, to represent finger taps or something.
Nice job till now. But there are some imperfections :
The "T" of appearance is blurred. Got to be the job of the infamous Adobe Type Engine™. I think you should shift to hand drawn paths for it.
Bottom part of last three icons have a blurry feel to them. I think that it was an attempt to give the sense of depth. If that is the case, try giving a contrast between the two parts, it will give them more definition.
The badge of the notifications icon looks blurry. If they were made with a layer style, try playing with the range option and that smoothes them out on most cases for me.
Also, I think, making the stroke of the top red part of the calendar red would make it look better, also may be a subtle inner shadow ? Sloppy edit example : http://cl.ly/3N1m0J2L3Q103u0j1T3U And do you think a recycle like symbol would be better to denote "sync" instead of "23" on the Calendar.
Lastly, typo on the labels. It should be Appe*a*rance.
Damn, that looks like a brutal verbal attack on your rather good work. Sorry about it, but I think these changes would make it look better :) I really like the metaphors and the above noted gestures idea. Are you working on the UI of the app too ?
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Kamil Khadeyev
Practicing in making rectangle icons for settings window of Mac OS X app :)
11 months ago
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Oliver Twardowski
I am not sure about the gestures-icon. Apple fans will totally get it. But the others?
11 months ago
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Michael Shanks
styling and simplicity of the icons are great :)
But i agree with Oliver, i didn't get the gestures icon.
11 months ago
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Iain MacDonald
Hmmm, while I do agree with Oliver and Michael about the Gestures symbol, it is very hard to think of something else in its place. I think the Trackpad works. :-)
11 months ago
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Kamil Khadeyev
Yeah, maybe you're right guys — trackpad is not an obvious icon for gestures. It was made just for practice and actually labels were added after I made an icon. And I still like it. Maybe I just should add some dots on it, to represent finger taps or something.
11 months ago
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Prathyush Pramod
Nice job till now. But there are some imperfections :
The "T" of appearance is blurred. Got to be the job of the infamous Adobe Type Engine™. I think you should shift to hand drawn paths for it.
Bottom part of last three icons have a blurry feel to them. I think that it was an attempt to give the sense of depth. If that is the case, try giving a contrast between the two parts, it will give them more definition.
The badge of the notifications icon looks blurry. If they were made with a layer style, try playing with the range option and that smoothes them out on most cases for me.
Also, I think, making the stroke of the top red part of the calendar red would make it look better, also may be a subtle inner shadow ? Sloppy edit example : http://cl.ly/3N1m0J2L3Q103u0j1T3U
And do you think a recycle like symbol would be better to denote "sync" instead of "23" on the Calendar.
Lastly, typo on the labels. It should be Appe*a*rance.
Damn, that looks like a brutal verbal attack on your rather good work. Sorry about it, but I think these changes would make it look better :) I really like the metaphors and the above noted gestures idea. Are you working on the UI of the app too ?
11 months ago
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Daniel Vernon
I totally niid that ical sync iconn!
11 months ago
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Kamil Khadeyev
@Prathyush Pramod, thanks for tips *cry*
11 months ago
I like the feel, very compact and Apple-ish. :)
11 months ago
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Kamil Khadeyev
@Prathyush Pramod,
>>Are you working on the UI of the app too?
It's not for a real app, it's just for practice :)
11 months ago
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Daniel Vernon
@Kamil Possible you''ll release these?
11 months ago
totally love the style going on, specially the mail but the badge isn't looking good, fix that white stroke :)
11 months ago
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Yana Klochkova
^_^
10 months ago