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NeXTSpirit: high-res NeXTSTEP Icons for macOS
- bitigchi 5y agoNow if only someone did HQ Platinum style icons...
- galgot 5y agocheck :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29545340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29545340
- pmarreck 5y agoIs there a NeXT Linux theme? EDIT: 5 mins later I found this submission to the homepage https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
- galgot 5y agoGiven it's a NeXTStep day today :) Part 1: http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1380 http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1380 Part 2: http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1410 http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1410
- mattl 5y agoThese are so cool. Thank you!
- meepmorp 5y agoI haven't seen a .sit file in the wild for a long time, nice. And thank you.
- masswerk 5y agoWell, here's another one, a Kaleidoscope scheme from 2005, MacStep (includes lot's of Mac icns icons) :-) > "NeXt's OPENSTEP refined for Mac – "macStep" is a derivative scheme based on the OPENSTEP 4 scheme by Scott Naness, specially adjusted for Mac usability" https://www.masswerk.at/schemes/macstep.sit https://www.masswerk.at/schemes/macstep.sit
- occoder 5y ago> Given it's a NeXTStep day today :) You noticed that too? I wonder what karmic factors are in play here.
- lproven 5y agoI have been wondering if it's in any way related to me mentioning GNUstep and Étoilé in the Register recently... https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/linux_software_installation/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/linux_software_instal... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- blackhaz 5y agoAbsolutely amazing. Will this ever be part of an Xfce theme? Can't wait to use this on my FreeBSD.
- Xavdidtheshadow 5y agoAh, these are "high-res" icons; this isn't a link about anyone being hired.
- galgot 5y ago:D Corrected
- yllan 5y agoI love it! These are so good!
- mattl 5y agoIt's a shame you can't easily change the icons for dock icons without disabling SIP on modern Mac OS X.
- kingnight 5y agoNot sure if that's totally true. I've changed a bunch of icons w/o disabling SIP and I'm on the latest OS.
- SamuelAdams 5y agoI think he’s talking about Apple owned applications. You can change the icon for any user installed program ( chrome, vsCode, iTerm) but cannot for things like Safari, Finder and Mail. Unless you disable SIP
- mattl 5y agoYeah, I can't change the icon for Finder to be the NeXT logo without disabling SIP. Kinda lame. Should be able to make an alias to it and change the icon on that at least.
- tambourine_man 5y agoI'm probably in the minority that always hated the NeXT aesthetics. I was very worried when Apple bought them and was rooting for BeOS at the time. Thankfully they eventually went on very different direction with Aqua. The HighRes versions on this site, however, are exquisite
- CyberRabbi 5y agoIf they bought Be they could not have bought NeXT since Gassée and Jobs were mortal enemies.
- tambourine_man 5y agoSure, it was undoubtably a much better choice all in all. Even Gassée would admit it himself. He's been pretty kind on Steve, on written word at least, over the last couple of decades.
- CyberRabbi 5y agoRight, I should have said that Jobs had extreme contempt toward Gassée.
- tambourine_man 5y agoAnd Gassée was hardly alone on being a target of Jobs's contempt :)
- CyberRabbi 5y agoI don’t know to what extent that is true but I do know that Jobs contempt of Gassée was not irrational, that is it was reasonably expected given Gassée’s actions toward him.
- tambourine_man 5y agoOh really? I'd like to know more about that soup opera if you have links handy.
- MDWolinski 5y agoNow if only someone could get the swirling black hole for a trash can replacement.
- pkaye 5y agoI never liked those folder icons. They are shown in a isometric view while most others are orthographic view.
- makecheck 5y agoThis is what I wish we were doing with Retina displays and such: making truly nice artwork instead of whatever single-colored squares and circles pass for icons these days. :/ Yes, it takes tremendously more work and is difficult to get right on a variety of screen sizes but there are also multi-billion-dollar companies that are in charge of this and I think it’s time they hired some more artists.
- chongli 5y agoPhotorealistic icons [1] are much harder to parse, visually, than very simple ones [2]. In general, graphical UIs have gotten far more visually noisy in the past few decades. This has made computers much harder and more fatiguing to use. So often we seem to have “UX” designers changing things for the sake of change rather than undertaking the legitimately hard effort (UI studies) of trying to determine what will make the interface easier to use. [1] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cTU5hVb22k0/R6u0lS9EFuI/AAAAAAAABXg/GO_MGa7rHiA/s400/Photorealistic+PNG+ICONs.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cTU5hVb22k0/R6u0lS9EFuI/AAAAAAAAB... [2] http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Susan_Kare_Prints.jpg http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Susan_Ka...
- EGreg 5y agoYou are showing consumer electronics in the first one, and attempting to argue that this is how icons on the MacOS and iOS looked during skeumorphism. The whole trend to do away with Skeumorphism led to things like Google’s Chrome browser having an empty white area where you apparently have to know you should tap to type the URL. It is still there on iOS. Because showing browser chrome as slightly 3D is apparently “too skeumorphic” and distracting — better not to know where the website begins and ends lol
- webwielder2 5y agomacOS and iOS for one are far more consistent and un-busy than they were from 2000—2014 or so. Apple had poor visual design discipline and deployed multiple styles across their apps and OS, many of them garish and cluttered. Also, you replied to a post yearning for skeuomorphic icons and bemoaning the clean shapes of today, which contradicts your point 2.
- gjvc 5y agowhy have desktop interfaces become flatter while graphics processors have become faster ?
- inDigiNeous 5y agoWell, implementing basic UI functionality even is hard enough with all the changing environments, screen sizes, rotations, touch interfaces and what have you. Making it as simple as possible makes it possible to focus in making those work in a more functional and usable manner. While it is true that CPU and GPU powers have increased, also the ways we use our machines have changed, people might have wildly different environments that the same UI needs to work on these days. Scalable UI alone can become a nightmare if you have anything more complex going on. Even the big players have a hard time figuring out proper usability, like look at Apple or Microsoft constantly making a hurdle to iterate on their designs, making mistakes along different releases. Building usable UI is freaking hard and requires a lot of user feedback, iteration and focusing on details that you don't know before starting to build the product. Changing even one thing can lead to another thing breakin, and so on..
- toyg 5y agoDesigners will point out all sorts of usability studies. The reality is that the art world, of which industrial design is an integral part, lives and dies around fads or "movements", which negate each other every few years. We're currently at tail end of a wave that preached flatness, leveraging the move from low-res to high-res screens to entrench itself as easier to implement. Now that the migration is near completion, a correction is bound to happen. Apple have already started: they attempted to reintroduce depth and shadows in their recent iterations of icons, arguably with mixed results. More and more people will try, eventually resulting in a new wave against flatness.
- joeman1000 5y agoNotice the Easter egg in the ‘black terminal’ icon… the abyss stares back at you.
- tssva 5y agoNoticed there is a "Better with Firefox or Safari" message on the site. I'm a little saddened to see this just as I would be to see a "Better with Chrome" or the old "Better with Internet Explorer".
- toyg 5y agoGoogle turned the Browser Wars into a permanent state of Browser Low-Intensity Conflict. I'm not sad that someone is finally stepping up.
- itomato 5y agoIn that case, I have to share this icon set I made ca. 2001 based on Keith Ohlfs’ frankly brilliant work: https://interfacelift.com/icons/artist/32/itomato/index1.html https://interfacelift.com/icons/artist/32/itomato/index1.htm...
- wildrhythms 5y agoUnrelated, but what the heck happened to Interfacelift? The site still runs, somebody is still paying for the hosting obviously, but I feel like it hasn't been updated since ~2018.