I would like to ask what's the state of the Etoile icons? Do we have
anything new here?
Nothing new yet, as I just started a new job and am currently doing a
paid icon project for Andreas at Smartsoft (which I should have
wrapped up by this weekend). After that, I can start working on the
Etoile icons again.
I was recently trying to draw some new icons for Grr, and digging
in the
Tango project's website, I found quite nice instructions on how to
draw
something in the 'Tango'-way and found myself drawing icons in that
style quite fast. Unfortunately, the results are maybe a bit too
bright
in comparison with other GNUstep and Etoile icons.
Can we come up with something like a color palette for Etoile icons? I
got the impression that this would make drawing icons a lot easier and
provide a bit of an overall-consistency among our icons that's
currently
lacking. The Tango palette seems quite nice to me, so I'd personally
vote for a downsaturated version of that. But maybe it's a better idea
to pipette-pick some colors from existing typical GNUstep icons.
Anyone wants to volunteer on that task? :-) It's pretty easy to do and
it's a great opportunity to contribute something to Etoile that can
easily be seen afterwards.
I had been considering doing that for a while now. Here's one I just
mocked up now, based on the icons I've already designed... I even
gave them clever names like the Tango people did :)
There are some colors that I use for specific things... Blueprint is
used on developer-type tools (like in GORM and ProjectManager), and
Natural is always used for paper and envelope icons, etc. You might
also want to consider what Jasper's icons look like, as he might be
using some higher-chroma colors. But, ideally, they should all work
pretty well together (as most of mine are based on his style and
colors).
I hope that helps -- let me know if you have questions!
J.
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