guidelines for icon design, that works well with Apple standard highlighting scheme

2012-08-02 Thread Motti Shneor 
Hi everyone.

In our application we employ tables showing little icons in the columns (and 
column headers). We have good graphic designers, and a solid graphic style the 
application follows.

However, with some user-preferences for Highlight color (blue for example), 
selecting a table row makes some of our icons barely visible.

I remember reading once, in an apple document, about the right way to make an 
icon, that will enjoy apple-highlighting, by keeping some rules on the icon 
images. 

I spent some times in google, in Apple human-interface-guidelines, and in Apple 
Developer site, but could not find this information anymore --- only guidelines 
for designing a good application icon which is not my problem.

Can anyone remember where this information was?

Thanks.
Motti Shneor

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Re: guidelines for icon design, that works well with Apple standard highlighting scheme

2012-08-02 Thread Andreas Mayer 

Am 02.08.2012 um 10:58 schrieb Motti Shneor su...@bezeqint.net:

 I remember reading once, in an apple document, about the right way to make 
 an icon, that will enjoy apple-highlighting, by keeping some rules on the 
 icon images. 

Template Images?

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSImage_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSImage/setTemplate:

There's a short paragraph on using templates in the OS X Human Interface 
Guidelines.


Andreas
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