I certainly agree. Both 3 and 4 look really nice; especially using colors. Perhaps the larger icons would benefit from different colors per language as well?
Best regards, Niklas On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Panos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Choice 4 looks great. Assigning colors to filetype is really easy to > get your head used to. > > On Jan 25, 12:30 pm, björn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Nico, >> >> 2009/1/25 Nico Weber: >> >> >> >> > 1.) Here's how the 16x16 variants currently look: >> >> > This looks like the 16x16 docicons of most other apps (which is a >> > plus, in my eyes). However, the extension text is much too small to be >> > readable, and the MacVim icon is not really discernible, either. I'm >> > pretty sure the latter could be fixed by making the V a bit lighter, >> > though. >> >> Yeah, I can't tell them apart at all... >> >> > 2.) The first experiment is to leave out the extension text and >> > instead make the vim icon a bit larger: >> >> > Now, the icon is a bit more visible (again, I think this can be >> > improved by making the V a bit lighter). However, now all small >> > docicons look the same, so this is probably not a good idea. >> >> At first sight (before looking at the others) I thought: not too bad. >> No worse than 1 at least. >> >> > 3.) The next experiments all drop the icon and instead increase the >> > extension text. The good news is that I found a font that makes it >> > possible to pack up to 3 characters into a 16x16 icon and keep the >> > text at least somewhat readable: >> >> > The bad news is that for some file types it's not obvious what these 3 >> > letters should be (e.g. "diff", "fscript", ...). Still, this looks ok >> > to me – the text might not be completely readable, but at least the >> > icons look a bit different from each other. The font in this version >> > is Envy Code R bold. >> >> Wow! I think this is pretty awesome...I can quite easily distinguish >> between different icons and looking closer I can read the extension. >> >> > 4.) Next up is the same, but with different colors for the different >> > file types: >> >> > This makes it easier to distinguish the file types, but it's a bit >> > weird that all higher-resolution docicons look similar and greenish >> > (because of the vim icon) but some 16x16 variants are red or pink. >> > Furthermore, since the 16x16 icon is displayed as proxy icon in the >> > title bar, these icons might be a bit distracting. >> >> Again, I really quite like these! The different colors remind me of >> the Xcode icons (which I think are great). If the colors were chosen >> more carefully I think this could be a winner, but I would not mind >> option 3 if lots of people _did_ find the colors distracting. >> >> > 5.) This is the same as the first text-only version, but with Envy >> > Code R non-bold: >> >> > 6.) Finally, this is with a non-monospaced font that Damien Guard, the >> > creator of Envy Code R, is currently working on (this font has no bold >> > style yet): >> >> These are ok (i.e. better than 1 and 2 by far), but I prefer 3 and 4 >> because of the boldness gives them more contrast. >> >> Björn > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
