Kyle22 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I think an SIO plug with the USB logo would be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamm Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Kyle22 said: I think an SIO plug with the USB logo would be perfect. Finally! Someone with some taste!! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Why USB, anyway? Serial ports are also supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I don't get why people are so eager to create icons with as much details, bells and whistles as possible. Wikipedia says: The icon "is more like a traffic sign than a detailed illustration". ? Using IrfanView I scaled down all designs to 48pixels (Windows desktop) and 16 pixels (Windows taskbar). Since this was a quick and dirty job, somebody experienced will certainly receive much better reults, but it should give some hints: Mr. Fish: The USB looks just weird in my opinion and Mr. Fish's design looks quite nice but needs a display with very good contrast to distinguish the "ribs". 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebiguy Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, DjayBee said: Using IrfanView I scaled down all designs to 48pixels (Windows desktop) and 16 pixels (Windows taskbar). Thank you for reducing them to 48 and 16 pixels. We have 4 candidates but maybe more if @jamm wants to reduce the other icons he designed to 48 and 16 pixels. Then, I think we could start a poll in the forum asking: - which kind of icon - which orientation (as it seems to be also a matter of discussion). My only concern is to be sure to compare icons at the same size that's why it is important to convert all candidates to 48 and 16 before starting a poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Here's an update for mine. RespeQt 5.2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, MrFish said: Here's an update for mine. RespeQt 5.2 Is there a bigger version of this? I think they'll go up to quite some size on the dock, Launch Pad, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, flashjazzcat said: Is there a bigger version of this? I think they'll go up to quite some size on the dock, Launch Pad, etc. I was just focusing on the 48x size to start with; but I'll be doing 32x & 16x, which are some of the standard sizes on Windows 7. I can do a larger size for Macs, which I know also have some larger standard (maybe newer versions of Windows do too). Even Windows 7 probably does, as I know there's the "Extra Large" icon designation, which probably has some standard. I've just never paid much attention to it, as I only select it for larger picture and PDF previews. I'll look into it; but I'd like to do 32x and 16x size versions first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Yeah: I think macOS needs versions up to 1024x1024px. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Just now, flashjazzcat said: Yeah: I think macOS needs versions up to 1024x1024px. Crap!... what size monitor is that for?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 The original plug picture is only 400 x 400. Hahaha... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Just now, MrFish said: Crap!... what size monitor is that for?? Well, they can blow up pretty big in various places... and we're dealing with Retina displays here. I suggest starting with a very large, high-quality image and deriving all the other versions from that. I'd also simply like to look at your icon design at a much bigger resolution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) I can take some new pictures if I have to. I found this reference for Mac OS icons: 16px 32px 128px 256px (OS X 10.5+) 512px (OS X 10.5+) 1024px (OS X 10.7+) More info on this page: Mac OS X - Icon Reference Edited April 13, 2020 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) BTW, if anybody has a need for a cart PCB icon... I did one for Jac's "The!Cart" application, but he chose the second design shown here instead of that one. Edited April 13, 2020 by MrFish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Win10 also supports high-DPI displays and has for 4+ years. The larger icons do much better when scaling to larger displays, especially 4K screens. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Here are 48x, 32x, and 16x sizes of the design so far. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I've designed the icons so they can have a mask like this, in order to work well on dark backgrounds too. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 The white outline is really needed e.g. on Mac OS X El Capitan's Dark Dock. I would make it like 50% opaque, so it looks good on dark, but it's not pushy on light mode UIs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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