I feel the 2D dock is making this icon darker than it actually is although this looks great. Also can't wait to see smaller versions. Love the tilt too!
@Tim Van Damme Yes! You'll be able to run it in the dock or the menu bar, and it will have some cool features that aren't possible with a widget, like Spotlight support and eventually iCloud syncing.
Taking a break from battling iCloud to clean up this icon a bit. I find it hard to stop incessantly tweaking little details. I finally got to a point where my revisions looked worse, and I had to backtrack a little, so that's usually a good sign that I should stop.
The main change here is that I lowered the contrast on the cover, so that top corner isn't quite so bright, and the bottom is a bit brighter. It's harder to tell in the smaller versions, but I also toned down the texture quite a bit—it's a huge improvement on the large sizes. Then I spent far too long adjusting shadows and sharpening. I also cleaned up the 32px version quite a bit, and created a new 16px version.
For comparison, I've attached a full view of the original and new versions (minus the 1024 size).
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Not quite done with this, but I'm mostly happy with it at this size.
about 1 year ago
Hot. Really nice. And while we're at it, how nice is it to have an app with iPhone, iPad and Mac flavours?
Only comment (if you're fishing): Looks like shading might be too high contrast, for my liking anyway.
about 1 year ago
This is really awesome! I'd wanna see this in small sizes (32px, 16px) as well!
about 1 year ago
@Bjango ✎ Marc Edwards I keep going back and forth on the contrast. I'll see how it looks toned down a bit. Thanks!
@CJ Melegrito The smaller (and very large) sizes still need some work. I'll definitely post them once they're in better shape.
about 1 year ago
Can't wait.
about 1 year ago
I guess this would look even better on the default dock! Does this mean Notefile is growing up and becoming a "real" Mac app? *excited!*
about 1 year ago
I feel the 2D dock is making this icon darker than it actually is although this looks great. Also can't wait to see smaller versions. Love the tilt too!
about 1 year ago
Nice Ollie photo-bomb. I approve! ;-)
about 1 year ago
So, so good!
about 1 year ago
That looks great!
about 1 year ago
Thanks all!
@Tim Van Damme Yes! You'll be able to run it in the dock or the menu bar, and it will have some cool features that aren't possible with a widget, like Spotlight support and eventually iCloud syncing.
about 1 year ago
Rebound
Notefile for Mac icon revised
by Mike Piontek
Taking a break from battling iCloud to clean up this icon a bit. I find it hard to stop incessantly tweaking little details. I finally got to a point where my revisions looked worse, and I had to backtrack a little, so that's usually a good sign that I should stop.
The main change here is that I lowered the contrast on the cover, so that top corner isn't quite so bright, and the bottom is a bit brighter. It's harder to tell in the smaller versions, but I also toned down the texture quite a bit—it's a huge improvement on the large sizes. Then I spent far too long adjusting shadows and sharpening. I also cleaned up the 32px version quite a bit, and created a new 16px version.
For comparison, I've attached a full view of the original and new versions (minus the 1024 size).
about 1 year ago