May I add a fourth "thing" : it has to "reflect" the international character of the app. Even if I wouldn't have been bothered by an american colored delivery car, maybe some users from other parts would have wanted to have their own "colors" on the icon.
It was why I have, in a previous mail, thought to a stack of letters with (and this is where I made a mistake, nobody's perfect!) a big black "@" on the topmost one ! Now, I am thinking of a stack of 6 letters (one letter per continent and colored with one of the colors of the olympic rings and the topmost in white representing the paper on which we wrote our message in the past) with an embossed "@" ! The six colors of the olympic flag are also representing all the colors of the countries's flags all over the world ! I have seen, maybe in this thread, maybe in another one a letter with a letter opener. Personally, I think the shape of the letter was the good one ! That's all for my thoughts of the moment ! 2010/1/29 Robin Benson <[email protected]> > On 29/01/2010, at 6:35 AM, Michael Dalling wrote: > > > How about those trolleys the postmen push down the street when they've > too much to go in a bag? > > Successful icons do at least two of three things: > > 1. They are a strong and unequivocal representation - not far from the > application/function metaphorically - that is quickly recognised by almost > everybody. > > The obvious choice for email is an envelope or a stamp - what could be more > on-target? A postbox? Well, is the app about storage and delivery, or about > mail? > > 2. They are simple - both in appearance and how they relate to the > application/function. > > Visual complexity (not to mention representational complexity) scales > poorly > > 3. They look great. > > Yes we can all blather on about what we personally like but I think to a > significant extent we can agree that some icons - for example the firefox > icon - just look great. > > Letters.app needs a great icon. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com >
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