Author: j7n
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 9:11 am (GMT -6)
I agree that the icons must be simplified.
Also these older icons are 'pixel art' drawn by hand, with symmetry and right angles, whereas the new ones have been dowscaled. The outline around these files and folders is exactly 1px. Even if a line would fall on a half or quarter pixel, the shape should be tweaked so that it fills an integral number of pixels, if possible. It's how font hinting achieves clarity. A file or folder symbol could be made square instead of rectangular, if that is necessary to keep its primary metaphors clear - a folded corner and a tab.
Disregarding the above, we have icons poorly defined icons like the barely separated bars that represent 'custom columns mode', grey blended barcode on 'encode', and half-filled fuzzy lines on both sides of a vertical arrow that would go away if the arrow were shifted about half-pixel.
Most icons, including Vista style, were clearer in the previews on IconExperience.
I suspect that if all recommendations so far voiced were to be filled, we'd get broadly the same icons we already have...
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 9:11 am (GMT -6)
I agree that the icons must be simplified.
Also these older icons are 'pixel art' drawn by hand, with symmetry and right angles, whereas the new ones have been dowscaled. The outline around these files and folders is exactly 1px. Even if a line would fall on a half or quarter pixel, the shape should be tweaked so that it fills an integral number of pixels, if possible. It's how font hinting achieves clarity. A file or folder symbol could be made square instead of rectangular, if that is necessary to keep its primary metaphors clear - a folded corner and a tab.
Disregarding the above, we have icons poorly defined icons like the barely separated bars that represent 'custom columns mode', grey blended barcode on 'encode', and half-filled fuzzy lines on both sides of a vertical arrow that would go away if the arrow were shifted about half-pixel.
Most icons, including Vista style, were clearer in the previews on IconExperience.
I suspect that if all recommendations so far voiced were to be filled, we'd get broadly the same icons we already have...
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#148174 Personal license
Running Total Commander v8.52a