[Zope3-dev] Re: DISCUSS: Icons in Zope 3

[Gus Gollings]

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 03:42  AM, kit blake wrote:
> I can send that to you. It's a vector file in Illustrator.
> In fact I can send all that I have (sorry I thought you had it
> already, I sent some other people a zip file a couple months back)
> Aha, found it, attached.

Nice one Kit - there are some really good ideas going on in your 
attachment.

> PNG has 'alpha blending' which makes subtle transparencies
> possible (originally a request from Steve Alexander)

This is a really great feature of PNG that we should exploit, 
especially in regard to background colours changing with skins - no 
more nasty GIF dithering!

> Someday, icons will be SVG graphics, which scale flawlessly
> with text (probably after Zope3 is released ;). It's a good
> idea to work in vectors to start with.

Agreed, there are some excellent quasi-XML elements available to 
Illustrator, where we could setup the icons as base art, and batch 
process colour scheme changes (for rollovers or interface colour 
changes) [separation of content and style meets images ;-)]

> This is true, however we should still try. A coherent theme
> makes many decisions for you, and simplifies work later, as
> more icons are added by various people.

A style guide of sorts is needed, but it should probably pertain to the 
entire appearance of the Zope3, rather than just the icons

Regards,

Gus
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