Oddly, some icons seem to use lower-resolution images for the zoom effect than others:
I can actually count the pixels in the left example -- it's 32x32, but the app has a 128x128 icon. Whereas I can practically read the text in the icon on the right, and it also has a 128x128 icon (which is odd, I thought that the Finder surely had a 512px icon for plain-text documents by now).
… Also, icons sometimes are enlarged, for instance the zooming effect when double-clicking an application.
I believe that the normal-resolution icon is the one used for the effect, actually. Not that the difference is noticeable though.
]]>any plans to make the other icon (konoko's head) high resolution as well ?
Agree
]]>When we moved to Leopard, icon sizes increased, and this icon only got grungier the more it was blown up, so I started tracing the icon in a vector app so it would be suitable for the Intel Mac build that would be made some day. Even though I stopped working on the icon for a long while, I kept it in the back of my mind as something to finish when the time was right. So a few months ago, I took the feedback I got above and tweaked the icon a little. Here's an updated comparison:
Now that the Intel build from Feral is almost ready for release, it seems appropriate to bump this thread to mention that the Intel build will use this version of the icon, and, for anyone who is interested, I've put the icns file, PNG renders, and the original SVG vector file up for download on my Oni2.net subdomain.
Ultimately, there's not a lot of difference from the original 'O' except that the new one is larger and cleaner. I'm pretty much considering it a finished work at this point, but if anyone does have any feedback on the icon, this is the place to post it and if you convince me to change something, the Intel Mac build icon might get updated.
]]>I'd guess that the only letters that exist in that alphabet are a capital O, capital N, and lowercase i, but I could be wrong
Yeah, because it's not an actual font but something Alex Okita threw together.
]]>On the subject of the "blue ring", I'm afraid you lost me. Are you referring to the thin blue lines between the center ring and the silver edges?
Yep, exactly. I think it's just a gradient from the inner blue color to the silver border. But that could be wrong ... Hard to tell with the quality of the original image
]]>And I think I agree that the bottom of the center ring is too light; it was tricky to sample a color (which you do by picking a single pixel, of course) when all the pixels in that area are different thanks to the "texture" But I think I should have picked a more middle-of-the-road pixel; it looks like I picked one of the lightest ones by accident.
On the subject of the "blue ring", I'm afraid you lost me. Are you referring to the thin blue lines between the center ring and the silver edges?
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