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This is a very nice and useful article but how do you design a Windows 95-style icon? I remember trying and trying and mine always looked like crap. I stared in

• Animats 5y ago
  It helps to be Susan Kare, who did both the original Mac icons and many of the original Windows icons. She used graph paper and pencils to set individual pixels. Every pixel counts in her icon work. It's easy to make icons if they're big. It's tiny, informative ones that are hard. (Her web site, "kare.com", is gone. There is a copy at "https://web.archive.org/web/20210403001323/http://kare.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210403001323/http://kare.com/")
  • CharlesW 5y ago
    FYI, her portfolio is now at https://www.behance.net/susankare https://www.behance.net/susankare, while her shop/main site is at https://kareprints.com/ https://kareprints.com/.
• peterburkimsher 5y ago
  If you'd like to experiment, I gathered a load of old Mac 32x23 icons: https://github.com/iconpush/iconpush.github.io/tree/master/PNGs32x32x32 https://github.com/iconpush/iconpush.github.io/tree/master/P... I also built a visual search tool, though it's not particularly useful. The text search is a little better. https://iconpush.github.io https://iconpush.github.io I wrote some documentation about how I gathered the icons too. https://iconpush.github.io/docs.html https://iconpush.github.io/docs.html
  • zwieback 5y ago
    Very nice, thanks!