On 16/10/2014 19:49 μμ, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
I'm not that good actually, in my own programs
<http://i3.minus.com/ibuyWlnHJorkXY.png> sometimes i even ignore the
color grouping part :-P (although i do try to use colors that stand
out and contrasted outlines). Also my icons are very simplistic and in
some cases they look more like game sprites than icons :-P.
That is because you got the grouping wrong. You don't group based on
application modules (forms, data, print, etc) you group on useability eg
insert, add, append and everything that adds to the existing
data/module/functionality green delete, remove, everything that has to
do with remove red, everything that has to do with edit orange or
something between green and red, blue is used for the info
functionality, logo, about, hints and everything else that can be
considered information. Something along those lines should be used for
messages too although they are part of the info group in icon you can
use sub groups (eg background color) to show the 3 basic groups of
messages (info, error, unrecoverable error).
That leaves 3 basic categories with out colors searching, reporting and
executing. I usually use yellow for reports, black and white for
searching, executing on the other hand is so rarely used outside the
developing tools industry that I do not have anything for it.
Oh I disagree about the borders/outline comment of yours, although it is
crucial that every icon must be distinguishable (even when you squint as
you said) there are far better methods to do that from a rigid pixelized
outline.
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