Chris Tooley-2 wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Mark Curtis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I deliberately didn't do perspective because I didn't want it to look too >> much like the Mac OS X version. I was thinking of highlights and/or >> outline, >> where is the svg for the icon stored as that was a quick mockup from the >> png. >> Look at the Wikipedia article on Microsoft Word to see the icon for Mac >> OS X >> (as well as Windows for 2007 and 2010) >> >>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:09:45 -0800 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Merk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > So I see a lot of nice changes with the humanity icon update. However >>> > the >>> > icons for .doc, .xls etc are really bothersome. >>> > The icons are blatantly ripped off the OSX version of Office. Why? >>> > I can understand having a W be pronounced in the icon for .doc like >>> all >>> > versions of word, but why make the W exactly like that in the OSX >>> > version? >>> > Most people coming to Ubuntu would be coming from Windows if anything. >>> > >>> > I removed the Mac OS X Word W and replaced it simply with the Ubuntu >>> > Title >>> > Font and already find it an improvement >>> > http://old.nabble.com/file/p27613841/humanity.png Current Humanity >>> .doc >>> > file >>> > http://old.nabble.com/file/p27613841/humanity2.png Slight change to >>> > Humanity >>> > .doc file >>> > -- >>> > View this message in context: >>> > >>> http://old.nabble.com/.doc%2C-.xls%2C-etc-icons-in-Humanity-Update-tp27613841p27613841.html >>> > Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > ubuntu-art mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >>> > >>> >>> I like it, but I think a little bit of perspective and some highlights >>> to match the W of the previous version would make it that much better. >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-art mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >> >> ________________________________ >> Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. >> -- >> ubuntu-art mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > I found the icon in the elementary icons set, which you should be able > to download from launchpad. > https://edge.launchpad.net/~elementaryart/+archive/ppa/+packages > > The icons are called things like "application-msword.svg" and > "application-vnd-ms-excel.svg". Perspective may not be needed - > also, if anyone knows how to transform perspective with inkscape, > please let me know, but I think the gradient used in the original plus > a shadow as per the original may be necessary :) Look at the attached > to see what I mean (i'm currently on a mac so I don't have the ubuntu > font and this is just a quick sketch up anyway). > > You should also consider whether this implies "microsoft word" to your > average user. > > -Chris > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > >
The Ubuntu Title Font is available on sites like dafont.com http://www.dafont.com/ubuntu-title.font I took the svg file and used the same color gradients and stroke. I do NOT want to do perspective as I feel that makes it lean too far to the Mac look and not a generic Word look. See the attached icons for Windows and Mac versions of Word: http://old.nabble.com/file/p27617704/200px-Microsoft_Word_2010_Icon.svg.png Microsoft Word 2010 - Windows http://old.nabble.com/file/p27617704/200px-Microsoft_Word_Icon.svg.png Microsoft Word 2007 - Windows http://old.nabble.com/file/p27617704/Word_Mac_2008_icon.png Microsoft Word 2008 - Mac http://old.nabble.com/file/p27617704/humanity-msword.svg Second version of mine -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/.doc%2C-.xls%2C-etc-icons-in-Humanity-Update-tp27613841p27617704.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
