Mac OS X Icon Creation Guidelines
Linked by Eugenia Loli on Wed 4th Oct 2006 17:05 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This new chapter describes the overall philosophy behind Aqua icons and shows how to design application, document, toolbar, and other types of icons for Mac OS X. To represent your application in Mac OS X, it's essential to create high-quality Aqua-style application icons that scale well in the various places the icon appears - the Dock, Finder previews, alert dialogs, and so on.
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Very nice
by Sphinx on Wed 4th Oct 2006 18:01 UTC
Sphinx
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2005-07-09

Certainly does have the best looking icons this side of e17, hope everybody follows this and it stays that way.

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Tips
by mypinkshrimp on Wed 4th Oct 2006 18:29 UTC
mypinkshrimp
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2006-08-08

I love the first Tip they give:

For great-looking Aqua icons, have a professional graphic designer create them.

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iTunes
by MikeGA on Wed 4th Oct 2006 20:21 UTC
MikeGA
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2005-07-22

I just think it's rather amusing that this article deals with the old iTunes icon…

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shapes?
by amilcarodonte on Wed 4th Oct 2006 23:53 UTC
amilcarodonte
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2006-02-07

I was under the impression that apple's guidelines emphasized the primary shape to easily identify the icon (but maybe only in toolbars?). To me, that made a lot of sense. I don't like the current trend in apple software to "encapsulate" all toolbar buttons.

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From an icon designor's perspective
by !dev!null on Thu 5th Oct 2006 08:28 UTC
!dev!null
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2006-06-18

You can read how designing icon is done at http://www.jasperhauser.nl/weblog/

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