John Siracusa wrote: > * App icon - <snip> > the slant is awful <snip> > Finally, the blue is also a bit too saturated.
John, I appreciate your focus on pixel-perfect attention to detail as exhibited in many of your blog posts and generally agree with your critiques about the new icon from a graphic-design point of view. However, I do appreciate the new icon colors for one reason - BBEdit is now more obviously different from Mailsmith [1] than it was before. With so many OS X icons I encounter being predominantly blue in color, the difference in hues and contrast makes it that much easier for me to quickly find the BBEdit icon in the application switcher and in a 20-pixel Dock. (I understand that Mailsmith is not a mass-market emailer and therefore that this difference will not have the same impact on all BBEdit users.) It also appears that the new blue is closer to the Classic BBEdit icon than any previous OS X BBEdit icon. It could be that the change in orientation also helps to differentiate BBEdit from other applications that I do not happen to use (e.g. the Camino icon is nicely different from the Safari icon due to its shape and white border). Although I like to think I prefer attractive visual design, in this case I'll disagree with you and prefer the functionality of the current icon. [1] <http://drab.org/bbedit_mailsmith_icons.png> -- Jeremy Weathers History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
