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From: qix@mit-prep.ARPA (Ed Puckett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Better Icons
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 23:16:41 EDT
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In article <1684@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>   I would be interested in knowing which icons people like and dislike.
>But please don't be too cruel... I designed many of the new 1.2 icons.
>I'd also be interested in suggestions for replacement images.

I especially liked the EMACS icon, and those for MORE and SETMAP.  They
were a welcome change from the two-dimensionality of previous icons.
As for suggestions, adding slight shadows to an icon gives it more "substance".
Doing this to the Preferences and NewCLI icons produced an immediate
improvement, it seemed to me.

On a similar subject, here is how my pointer is currently set.
Its shadow adds an interesting effect.  (Guess I'm just a shadow-person!)

        * # #                       * is red
        # #                         # is green
      + #   #                       + is black
      + +     #
      +   +
            +

                             -Ed Puckett.