Oh well...

[Michael Brade]

On Monday 18 November 2002 18:55, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> There is no problem with "multi-color" or "multi-object" icons.
> Problem is *how* colors used ;-)
Yep...

> From my understanding, many of Crystal icons use gradients for stroke (path
> surrounding internal part of object).
> This is 'no-no' for icon being rednered at 32x32 or 48x48 size.
> Such nifty effect can look well on 128x128 icon, but at smaller sizes:
> * edges are disappearing (that's my major concern over existing Crystal
> implementation)
> * due to resizing effect and gradients for strokes, colors are blurring
> into each other, so you get terrible mixture of unpleasant colors.
...however, this is what I like about Crystal, the gradients. Makes it look 
not only 3D but gives the whole desktop a new character :) Actually, I don't 
have a problem with this, it's just that a few icons are kinda "wrong" per 
design... Just IMHO.

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