Icon Text Shadow (Down with icon backgrounds!)

Christopher Blauvelt cblauvelt at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 08:24:07 CET 2008


On Jan 27, 2008 12:42 AM, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll do one better.
>
> 2008/1/27 Chani <chanika at gmail.com>:
>
> > On January 27, 2008 13:45:17 Christopher Blauvelt wrote:
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/22980607@N07/2221038289/
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/22980607@N07/2222549752/
> > >
> > > Above is a screenshot of panel text with a shadow so text can be seen
> > on
> > > white desktop backgrounds.  My biggest problems with backgrounds on
> > icons
> > > is that they aren't the same size.  I think the best effect would be
> > to
> > > show the background on hover events and when selected.  When that does
> > > happen, they still should be the same size for the same size icon.
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > flickr won't show the image at full size. the text looks hard to read
> > and I'm
> > not sure if that's just because of the scaling. could you post a clipped
> > image just showing a few icons?
> >
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