share-like-connect icons

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 23 February 2012, Bugs Bane wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> After seeing Aaron's blog post, my first reaction was "Thank $DIETY! Those
> $%^$! icons are going!". (Note: the icons themselves are nice enough, but
> in combination, in that context... urgh.) My second was "I should have a go
> at creating the new ones..." So here's my first draft superimposed on the
> standard 1366x768 PA2 screenshot (please look at the image at 1:1 size, or
> it looks blurry): http://i.minus.com/iH1Jb3tbwXI0h.png
> 
> Note, I've gone with the minimalist version here as I like clean looks. I
> was thinking of embossing them or suchlike, but then looking at the
> screenshot, I realised that they may look too much like just another part
> of the (very embossed) background. The "share" icon is also a (hand
> re-created) version of the other "universal" share logo, albeit with my own
> touches. The difference in style between the sla icons and the home button
> is also intentional. SLA are considered a discreet set of functionality
> separate from the home screen (thus why they're always referred to as
> share-like-connect and not share-like-connect-home.) The style difference
> is to make that distinction clear.

they are quite nice, i like them.

only think i'm concerned with is that it would make for a 3rd monochrome icon 
style around, whiteish of the systray, dark embossed, and gray flat.

so i would go for either one of the other two styles or all the way different, 
ie colored.

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Marco Martin