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Join Date: Sep 2004
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And if we push the limits of minnimalism ? This is what I was thinking about, take the idea of Gerrit of the three letters as application icons and expand this idea to all icons ? Imagine like the toolbar here ? Hard drive icons, HD, CD icons, CD, just like that. With a almost-transparent layer back, we should have no problem to click the icon, ....
What do you think about this ? Usability, aesthetic, ....
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that's a greeeat idea !!
i wonder why i didn't think about that a long time ago
why not just use 4 characters max ? i think it's enough to identify any folder.
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I've always narrowed it down to 3 letters to allow a bigger font size (readability).
My first design had the Impact font : Screenshot (please be gentle, this was my very first screenshot posted at MacNN).
PlasterSTYL and OrbitalAGV use Myriad Apple, at this moment I'm testing Neutra.
Of course I'm still elaborating further on my appEXT idea, but to no good aesthetic result yet.
Personally I like the Typographiganda approach. These icons are fascinating enough to avoid the dullness that often results from a misinterpreted "Minimalism".
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I love the Typographiganda approach - minimalism does not need to be devoid of color...
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Yes I discovered Typographiganda few days ago, ... That's interresting, .....
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[WIP] : sysEXT, a systemwide 3 letter code iconset�
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally posted by Gerrit Vanoppen:
[WIP] : sysEXT, a systemwide 3 letter code iconset�
Oh boy, I'm sure looking forward to this!
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