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iOSX? iOS 7 inspired Mac icons
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I think a majority of them look quite nice actually.OMG MY EYESthose are just horrible!
Those are not good. Not because of the iOS 7-like colors, but because that guy is bad at designing icons.
I only used two of them. The rest I took from the OP and cut them out with Pixelmator. They look really good! I need a new FaceTime one though. I didn't know which one was supposed to be the FaceTime one. haha.
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I didn't know which one was the Calendar one either.
So true. The details in the Mac icons are amazing. What is wrong with photorealism? We now have computers capable of easily displaying complex graphics and yet now we have to go back to the early '90's for some reason?
Nice designs, but they are simply too homogenous with everything being the same shape. Remember when apple removed color from the folder icons in Finder, or from the Finder / iTunes sidebars? Everything became much more difficult to find.
IMO OSX looks leagues better than iOS7, and it's also moving in a 'flatter' direction with Mavericks already.
Also, one huge reason iOS7's look works is due to the accelerometer and parallax. Many have said screenshots don't do it justice, which is true because movement and context of the background photos add a lot to it. You don't move a desktop or laptop around very much, not nearly as much as you would a phone, so the dimension (which is a huge element of iOS7's design) gets completely lost.
IMO OSX looks leagues better than iOS7, and it's also moving in a 'flatter' direction with Mavericks already.
Also, one huge reason iOS7's look works is due to the accelerometer and parallax. Many have said screenshots don't do it justice, which is true because movement and context of the background photos add a lot to it. You don't move a desktop or laptop around very much, not nearly as much as you would a phone, so the dimension (which is a huge element of iOS7's design) gets completely lost.
You spent a couple of HOURS working on those? I'm sorry, but iOS 7 should not influence OS X. OS X should keep the icons similar to how they are in Mountain Lion and not make them iOS 7-like.
If it shouldn't influence it, does that mean we should get rid of launchpad?
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I tried that, it didn't work. I guess because I'm running Mavericks and it's not updated for that yet. I got it to where you can see the new icon in the force quit window though. haha.
Is it easy to change OS X icons on Mountain Lion? I was always under the impression that Apple locks these sort of things down and makes you jump through hoops before you can change their beloved designs. I have been wanting to play around with my icons but I don't know if you need a 3rd party app or anything.
I could send it to you. I think the OP is gone....He hasn't responded to anyone on here.
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Nope, you don't need 3rd party apps to change them, except maybe for the finder one. You just go to the app in applications, right click and go to get info, then drag the new .icns file over the icon in the top left corner.
Hi guys! Only a floater on here so I had sort of forgotten I had posted these icons. Thanks for the kind words for what was a simple wee mess-about on Pixelmator!
Would people be interested in a download of the 512x512 icons?
Would people be interested in a download of the 512x512 icons?
Sure! Absolutely! Could you do one for the finder, calendar, and facetime? If their there, I don't know which one's they would be. haha.
I didn't make finder icon because i didn't know how to change the icon! I didn't make a calendar because I wasn't sure how it would work with the whole live-number-date thing.
I didn't make facetime because I forgot.
I actually think leaving the Finder icon with it's own unique shape works well.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8h103h_amsfLVpFazJIdDdZajg&usp=sharing
Download link for the icons as requested
Download link for the icons as requested
I see, thanks. What about if I want to go back to the default ones? Do I need to make backups or will OS X take care of that?
For some reason, most people's icons are way too big on the dock. I really like the icons from icreatemagazine, but the icons are enormous compared to the actuall OSX icons. The best example I've seen is this person's work, although I don't like them as much as some others, these have been made to fit well on the dock.
http://dribbble.com/tristanedwards
Edit: Hmm, I just noticed that there are a few that are exactly the same as the OP's. Well this is awkward.
http://dribbble.com/tristanedwards
Edit: Hmm, I just noticed that there are a few that are exactly the same as the OP's. Well this is awkward.