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This might just be me but I'm surprised how many icons are quite confusing in that certain icons either look very similar to another one (a lot if them literall
by 0dayz 3y ago
This might just be me but I'm surprised how many icons are quite confusing in that certain icons either look very similar to another one (a lot if them literally are just glued together) or shares similar colors.
It's probably one thing I actually like more about the XP or Linux (KDE) iconset.
- thinkingemote 3y agoYeah agreed. For most people screens were smaller and the resolutions back then were bigger so perhaps the icons were easier to see, compared to now ?
- hnlmorg 3y agoThere are a few things at play: - Some of them are the same icon but the slightly more modern counterpart (ie where more colours were supported - Some of them are the same icon but in different states (eg empty recycle bin vs non-empty recycle bin) - Some are actually intended to be used as crude animations (eg the 4 icons of magnifying glass over the computer are actually just 4 frames of an animation) - Plus pixels were "bigger" back then so you had to do more with less. But thankfully subtle changes were also more noticeable (again, because pixels were "bigger")