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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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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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.