Hi Eirik, I like your style with the icons, I think it's very clean and crisp.
I'm not in a position to help, I'd struggle to draw a box ;) But if we went the crowd funding approach I'd have no issues helping with a donation, if that's how we went to collect funds for this. Regards John On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 21:22, Eirik Bakke <[email protected]> wrote: > Regardless of how we end up doing the conversion of bitmap icons to SVG, > it would be useful to reach a consensus on the graphical style to use. > > A while back I typed up a proposed style guide here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2617 > > This is the style used in my NetBeans Platform application, which looks > like this: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/13011239/ScreenshotExample.png > > Here are examples of a few icons that have been redrawn from bitmap to SVG > in this style (and Pete Whelpton also attached a few more ton > NETBEANS-2617): > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12970381/style%20example.png > > The main principle is to keep the overall shapes and colors of the > existing NetBeans icons, but modernize them by (1) vectorizing the shapes, > (2) omitting unnecessary shadows, (3) omitting gradients, and (4) making > outlines less pronounced. > > Do people like this style? > > -- Eirik > > > >
