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Hi! you've probably looked through the upload a little bit, so you already
know what this is all about. All the same, I thought I'd add a little
something about the background behind this.
In coming up with these icons and other assorted things, I tried,
for the most part, to keep these things in mind:
1> many people still run a 4-color Workbench.
(Like me!)
2> simplicity and elegance are next to
perfection. (You can tell I'm a
mathematician, yes?)
3> in spite of #2, any icon works only
when the image makes its purpose
intuitively obvious.
4> wherever possible, try to imitate the
standard Amiga icons.
You can see that I held to these principles, by and large. There
were only three standard icons that I replaced: Icon Edit, More, and Memacs.
I did this because I felt Icon Edit was too large, More wasn't intuitively
obvious, and Memacs was irrelevant to its icon. For my replacements, Icon
Edit is similar, and I unified More and Memacs to be instantly recognizable
with a Text File project icon I've been using.
For the project-oriented icons, almost all are based on the original
project icon in the Operating System (ver 2); that is, I snipped off the
"Northeast" and "Southwest" corners. I also tried to make prefs projects
similar to their tool counterparts. (That "intuitively obvious" part...)
I won't pretend that my icons are superb works of art which all of
us should sit back and admire. I've seen a few of those, and wow! are they
something. They also tend to use at least 8 or 16 colors. In particular,
I'm thinking of the icons which are used in Magic Menu v1.27. Absolutely
gorgeous.
On the other hand, my icons are simple and to the point; they get
the job done without a lot of wondering, "well, what's THAT icon mean?".
I hope you like and use these icons. If you have any suggestions
or comments, feel free to reach me.
-John E> Perry, ///
jep@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Northern Arizona University Box #6220
Flagstaff, AZ
86011
Acknowledgements:
The Lord
C= for the Amiga
All those wonderful icon artists out there who are doing a wonderful
job!