Menu bar theme & icons

[WillLem]

Here's two more

IconHotkeys is excellent, I wonder if we could rotate it slightly more to the left? If you need to make it wider to allow for this, that's fine (width is generally a bit more flexible than height (which needs to be around 32px max)).

You definitely have the right idea for IconPlayers, but I was thinking more along the lines of the classic Clue / Cluedo tokens, like this:

Cluedo Tokens

Keep going with these, they look fantastic in context.

[zanzindorf]

How's this?

[WillLem]

Perfecta!

[zanzindorf]

Here's Settings and Styles:

[WillLem]

Here's Settings and Styles

This is beautiful work @Zanzindorf, thank you so much for doing these. Keep 'em coming

Also, if you want to revisit the codes icon (or any of the others) and make it 48 x 32 like the hotkeys icon, that seems to be a decent size in general.

[zanzindorf]

Thanks! Glad you like them They're fun to make, and I'm remembering how to use Blender a bit more now.
I'll take another look at t he code icon tomorrow I think.

I'm not sure I like how this one turned out, but here's my progress on the mouse icon.
I could try a different type of mouse if you don't like this one. If you had a specific mouse model in mind, let me know.

[WillLem]

I'm not sure I like how this one turned out, but here's my progress on the mouse icon.

Looks good to me. By all means rework it if you wish, but this one will certainly do the job.

[zanzindorf]

Looks good to me. By all means rework it if you wish, but this one will certainly do the job.

Yay! Good good.





I still plan on re-rendering the glasses, but I had an idea for an alternative to the code icon:

[WillLem]

The Replay 'clapper board 'is very nice. The 'retro computer' Codes icon is also a very nice touch, I've gone ahead and added this one as the default (the glasses one will also be included as an optional alternative - users can simply rename the icon to get whichever they prefer).

I've done some slight editing to most of the icons to increase contrast, tweak the colours, and enhance detail at the smaller size (for example, making the "Code" word a bit more visible on the computer). Here are the results so far:



EDIT: After posting this, I've realised that the icons are aliased slightly (you also noted this several posts ago). This is happening due to the fact that my display resolution is set to 1.5x, and so Swing is scaling the icons to 48 x 48.

Solution: I've introduced some repainting code to support display scaling, so we can provide the icons at 32 x 32 (1x), 48 x 48 (1.5x) and 64 x 64 (2x) and the correct icon will always be chosen depending on the display's current DPI. There will still be some resizing/aliasing for 1.25, 1.75, and any scale above 2.0, but this should be fairly acceptable. With this in mind, we should probably stick to a straight 32 x 32, 48 x 48 and 64 x 64 for all icons (including Hotkeys).

Once we're happy with all designs, I'll just need each one at 64 x 64. I can apply resizing from there, and will most likely provide the icons as sprite sheets.


Side note - having thought a bit more about it, maybe the Amiga 'tank' mouse would be a good choice for the mouse icon?



If you can make the "Code" computer an A500 as well, bonus points!


Exercised some artistic licence with the width of the monitor here!

Many thanks again for all of these