The Best Looking (Pretty) Icons
Just wondering what your favorite icons are. I don't like IE, but I think it's blue E is really cool and wish I knew how to make letters like that. I'll have to give it a try soon. The Software Update icon isn't too bad looking either, although I've always liked the blue network icon.
I'm partial to the icon I made for firefox as well, but I guess anyone likes what they themselves made right?
Safari is pretty nifty as well, I don't like the silver boarder, but the blue is pretty cool, and the detail of putting the continents in the background was a very nice touch.
I'm partial to the icon I made for firefox as well, but I guess anyone likes what they themselves made right?
Safari is pretty nifty as well, I don't like the silver boarder, but the blue is pretty cool, and the detail of putting the continents in the background was a very nice touch.
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I also like the iTunes icon, especially how it changes colors with each major release of it. I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
I hate the Adobe CS icons.
I think the best icons are the Snow.E and Snow.E Aqua sets. Simple and clean.
InterfaceLIFT has a huge collection. Anything from Hein Mevissen is gold. Or was... (click link)
As far as Apple icons go, the latest iTunes looks great (love green).
I really like the style of the Smoothicons series found at www.iconfactory.com
Originally posted by DMBand0026
I also like the iTunes icon, especially how it changes colors with each major release of it. I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
Shows how wet behind the ears I am -- I've only ever known green (ahhhhh...)
Originally posted by SonOfSylvanus
Shows how wet behind the ears I am -- I've only ever known green (ahhhhh...)
There has been 4 versions of iTunes so far. From what I remember, there has been Blue, Purple, Green, and another color that I can't think of right now.
People make icons for it too, in all sorts of cool colors.
http://www.gowan.us/itunes.jpg
Edit: These aren't official Apple icons, just ones that people have created.
Thank you, Wayback Machine.
And while I know they're not icons, I love the Adobe splash screens. I haven't seen the ones for CS, but the latest Acrobat splash screen is very cool, and the one for Image Ready 7 is beautiful.
That mars rover is a picture that was extracted...I mean I know we have geeks on here, but if you think a mars rover is pretty, well...
Some of the icons are neat, but some of them look like gloried clip art
To each their own, here are pics of the icons I was talking about...
Explorer: Safari: FireFox (Me):
FireFox (Original): QuarkXPress:
CS Suite
Photoshop: ImageReady: GoLive:
Illustrator: InDesign:
Who knows, maybe I have a thing for browsers\
I guess I just don't like a real cartoony looking icons like Acquisition and Poisoned as an example.
Edit: Do all these icons look darker then normal? Perhaps the grey background.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
FireFox:
That's not FireFox's icon. If you're going to talk icons, post the real thing and not your Illustrator copy.
Originally posted by Brad
That's not FireFox's icon. If you're going to talk icons, post the real thing and not your Illustrator copy.
Don't shoot!
I should have specified what was what, and I fixed it. Do I get any redemption points for at least saying about it's my own earlier?
m partial to the icon I made for firefox as well, but I guess anyone likes what they themselves made right?
Eh?\
I guess I should have done Save For Web because they are all a lot more magenta than they should be.
Example, this is what it should look like, not that red:
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Maestro has a cool rover icon
Im interested to download it but to take up half of my ram i don't don't think so.
by the way, i'll throw in my least favorite.... macromedia. you friggin' name it. i don't know what annoys me more, the almost illegible-at-times klingon script they have for letters, or the fact that this branding doesn't tell you what the app does, or how they don't change the icons between revisions (dreamweaver mx and mx 2004 are EXACTLY the same), or how anyone outside an english-speaking country might not understand what the hell they are at all. as a matter of fact, i think i dislike any "letter" icons. hell, my dock is practically alphabet soup as it is.
as far as favorites, just about ANYthing from David Brasgalla at iconfactory. i just don't know how he does it. apple's icons are generally very good (though the finder icon seems to hedge towards marketing than anything else).