App.net Starter Kit

9 Responses

1. Pro Marc Edwards ✎ Bjango

   I want to encourage some good App.net apps.

   Here’s a bunch of images as a starter kit. If you do something interesting with them and need some more, please get in touch (I don’t have that much spare time, but you never know).

   The license: For use in commercial and non-commercial App.net apps, provided you credit me. Not for use for any other purpose.

   If you’d like to know how I automate the exporting, make sure you check out the sprite sheets.

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   I’m on App.net as @marc.

   9 months ago

2. Pro Jared Sinclair, RN

   There's that charming Bjango settings gear. How'd you land on eight spokes and six inner faces? It looks natural, just asking about process.

   9 months ago

3. Pro Jared Sinclair, RN

   Followup question: which comes first for you: @2x or @1x?

   9 months ago

4. Pro Marc Edwards ✎ Bjango

   I'm not sure why... eight outer spokes renders really well at small sizes, and I wanted the inner hole to not be circular, so it could actually work as a real object. Six sides rendered well at small sizes, too.

   I build at 1× first. I think I’ll continue to do that until I have a Retina Cinema Display and Retina capable Photoshop. I try really hard to make sure the 1× document scales perfectly to 2× with no changes or minimal changes (that doesn’t mean using 2px wide lines for the 2× size, just means you have to get a little creative on how you build things sometimes).

   This set was put together pretty quickly, but hopefully it all looks ok. There’s a few things I’m not happy about for the 1× size, but I guess I’ll see if anyone uses it before investing more in the set.

   9 months ago

5. Jeroen Schaper

   The tabbar at the bottom looks a bit like the one from Tweetbot.

   9 months ago

6. Pro Mike Stezycki

   Nice idea Marc, hopefully this will encourage some really nice app designs.

   9 months ago

7. Ari

   Great work, Marc. My only suggestion is to round the app corners.

   9 months ago

8. Pro Marc Edwards ✎ Bjango

   @Ari Yeah, it could do with some polish. If someone uses it, I’ll gladly spend a little more time finishing it.

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   9 months ago

9. Stephen Ives

   Has a tweetbot type of feel. Which I am okay with.

   9 months ago