[ubuntu-art] Breathe Icon Set - Folder Icons

daniel planas armangue daniplanas.a at gmail.com
Fri May 29 14:02:18 BST 2009


El vie, 29-05-2009 a las 11:20 +0100, Andrew escribió:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Before I start I want to say well done on the breathe icon set. It is really starting to look good!
> 
> Now I was looking at the folder icons for the breathe icon set, and I felt that they were a bit too
> dark. The combination of the dark red and then a very strong shadow at the bottom just made them
> look too 'grungy' and not in place when surrounded by the lighter icons of the icon set.
> 
> Therefore I tweaked two things:
> 
> 1) I lowered the opacity of the bottom shadow of the folder from 42 to 25
> 
> 2) I changed the first colour of the gradient of the main piece of the front of the folder to be
> slightly lighter/ a tiny bit more orange
> 
> The resultant icon looks more lighter and doesn't make the users' desktop environment look as dark
> (and therefore smaller)
> 
> You can see my comparison of the before and after here:
> 
> http://i39.tinypic.com/153s9vs.png
> 
> Now before I put up a bzr branch and proposed a merge, I just wanted to make sure that you all
> thought it was a change for the better, so please look at my comparison above and reply to what you
> think about it.
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 

realy nice men! i'm agree with you in all of folder aspects. good job

Daniel




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