A set of glyphs from Posterous for iPhone 1.1, which was approved today.
The challenge was the keyboard icon- it went through over 6 iterations. If you have a better idea, or any extra critique on that specific icon, I'd appreciate it!
Liking them a lot— that keyboard issue is a tricky one though. What about adding a wider key (á la the shift key) on the left side of the second row to make the width of each row about the same? It'd have a slightly more rectangular look, hopefully more unified, but perhaps that doesn't work... give it a try and see what happens.
I've already tried it… spacing is such a pain here, since you have to have it in 2 pixel increments and such. This was truly the best solution I could come to.
Now that I think about it, it was more like 10 iterations. I literally did almost everything I could think of.
I might ask Jesse if I can take inspiration from his PlainText keyboard icon. It's very well done.
The thing is, when I asked people, all of them instantly recognized this as 'keyboard'. So for the time being, it totally works- but, like I said, there's always room for improvement.
These are really nice. That paper clip is fantastic! AS for the keyboard I think it may have been a bit better if you used more square-y icons for the keys. Maybe replace the rightmost one with a return key, but that could ruin the whole thing. I definitely see it as a keyboard though!
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A set of glyphs from Posterous for iPhone 1.1, which was approved today.
The challenge was the keyboard icon- it went through over 6 iterations. If you have a better idea, or any extra critique on that specific icon, I'd appreciate it!
over 1 year ago
Great job Raj ;)
over 1 year ago
Great job. As for the keyboard glyph, maybe try moving the rows a bit closer together.
over 1 year ago
I tried… didn't work out.
Just noticed that there are half pixels here; I'll fix.
over 1 year ago
Liking them a lot— that keyboard issue is a tricky one though. What about adding a wider key (á la the shift key) on the left side of the second row to make the width of each row about the same? It'd have a slightly more rectangular look, hopefully more unified, but perhaps that doesn't work... give it a try and see what happens.
over 1 year ago
I've already tried it… spacing is such a pain here, since you have to have it in 2 pixel increments and such. This was truly the best solution I could come to.
Now that I think about it, it was more like 10 iterations. I literally did almost everything I could think of.
I might ask Jesse if I can take inspiration from his PlainText keyboard icon. It's very well done.
The thing is, when I asked people, all of them instantly recognized this as 'keyboard'. So for the time being, it totally works- but, like I said, there's always room for improvement.
over 1 year ago
These are really nice. That paper clip is fantastic! AS for the keyboard I think it may have been a bit better if you used more square-y icons for the keys. Maybe replace the rightmost one with a return key, but that could ruin the whole thing. I definitely see it as a keyboard though!
over 1 year ago