The new icon is growing on me, mainly in that it clearly scales better.
I think what is bothering me about it is mainly that the proportions see a bit off when compared to both other macOS icons and the existing vanilla and extended icons.
My 2 cents:
* the new one is too wide and thin, doesn't quite fit into the overall square profile of the macOS icons
* I don't think it needs the tilde
* the bang button is too small
* the line weight on the edges is too thin and gets lost on small zoom lenses as compared to the other icons
* the horz center gradient is still a little much, maybe the more blurred gradient on the extended icon works better?
* I'm assuming the font use is Deja Sans Mono?
I think it just needs some tweaks to find a more middle ground with the vanilla and extended icon.
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Update to extended icons?
Date: June 28, 2017 at 3:10:48 AM GMT+2
Whichever you go with, here's a script for converting PNG files into retina *.icns:https://gist.github.com/rnkn/d29fcfbf1c46f9c1465468b8965175b6Input needs to be PNG 1024 x 1024.On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, at 11:01 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:Anyway, if there's better stuff about I'm happy to grab it.
I have a copy of Pd extended (I think pretty much the latest one)
squirreled away - I just stuck a copy of their icons here:
http://msp.ucsd.edu/tmp/pd-extended-icons.zip
I can't judge what makes a good mac icon (anything on a mac screen is
ugly to me :)
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