As we've been discussing the TM icon lately, and I'm one of those who isn't keen on the current icon, I thought I'd do some research.
When placing a new brand into an existing market, one of the things to identify is the values presented within the brands of your competition. For icons, the overriding value to consider is that of colour.
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons and placed them on a colour wheel:
http://allinthehead.com/assets/img/osxeditorcolours.png
As you can see, the main focus is on blues and greens. These colours are already over-used and should be avoided. Strong yellow and red have also already been claimed, although there's no strong orange in use.
The main gap on the wheel is obviously the pinks/purples and the cyan end. Cyan is tricky to get right, as it tends to either drift into blue or green, or contrasts badly against white.
Therefore, I think that TextMate should have a pink/purple icon.
drew.
thanks Drew! Interesting... actually I don't like most of them (feeling grumpy I guess). The SEE one is the most unique and memorable.
Funny how aged BB looks!
Good job.
On 24 Nov 2004, at 19:07, Drew McLellan wrote:
When placing a new brand into an existing market, one of the things to identify is the values presented within the brands of your competition. For icons, the overriding value to consider is that of colour.
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons and placed them on a colour wheel:
Hmm,
It could be very stylish if the TM icons is completely made of Black and White patterns.
Nick
On Nov 24, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Drew McLellan wrote:
As we've been discussing the TM icon lately, and I'm one of those who isn't keen on the current icon, I thought I'd do some research.
When placing a new brand into an existing market, one of the things to identify is the values presented within the brands of your competition. For icons, the overriding value to consider is that of colour.
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons and placed them on a colour wheel:
http://allinthehead.com/assets/img/osxeditorcolours.png
As you can see, the main focus is on blues and greens. These colours are already over-used and should be avoided. Strong yellow and red have also already been claimed, although there's no strong orange in use.
The main gap on the wheel is obviously the pinks/purples and the cyan end. Cyan is tricky to get right, as it tends to either drift into blue or green, or contrasts badly against white.
Therefore, I think that TextMate should have a pink/purple icon.
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out of curiosity did you do that by hand or do you have some neat program?
On Nov 24, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Drew McLellan wrote:
As we've been discussing the TM icon lately, and I'm one of those who isn't keen on the current icon, I thought I'd do some research.
When placing a new brand into an existing market, one of the things to identify is the values presented within the brands of your competition. For icons, the overriding value to consider is that of colour.
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons and placed them on a colour wheel:
http://allinthehead.com/assets/img/osxeditorcolours.png
As you can see, the main focus is on blues and greens. These colours are already over-used and should be avoided. Strong yellow and red have also already been claimed, although there's no strong orange in use.
The main gap on the wheel is obviously the pinks/purples and the cyan end. Cyan is tricky to get right, as it tends to either drift into blue or green, or contrasts badly against white.
Therefore, I think that TextMate should have a pink/purple icon.
drew. _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list textmate@lists.macromates.com http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
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Douglas F.Calvert wrote:
On Nov 24, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Drew McLellan wrote:
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons and placed them on a colour wheel:
out of curiosity did you do that by hand or do you have some neat program?
By hand! The colour wheel itself is just a screen grab from the OS X colour palette.
drew.
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