Re: Icon creation tool
Re: Icon creation tool
- Subject: Re: Icon creation tool
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:04:21 -0400
On Jul 9, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Seth Pellegrino wrote:
On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
Go to Cheetah3D's "Help", and there is a tutorial called "Making
Mac OS X icons".
Wow... talk about the answer being right in front of my nose.
Thanks for pointing that out for me.
To all,
Is it possible to use the standard Apple icons, such as the
highlighted ones below (from iWeb)?
Those aren't really "standard" icons, but to answer your question:
- Sure it's possible. You just copy the appropriate files to your
application Resources folder and use them.
- Is it legal? No.
- Does Apple's legal department have better things to do than come
after you for using a few of their icons? Probably.
I wouldn't hesitate to use them during development. I'd provide my
own for release. In the case of the icons you highlighted, they're so
bland and boring that you could probably come up with a variation of
them yourself that would look as good. A professional icon designer
could do something even better. And remember, if you need others you
can't appropriate you'll want a consistent look among all of them.
<Picture 2.png>
It's better not to attach graphics when posting messages. Post the
image on a server somewhere and provide a link to it in your message.
People who get messages in digest form don't get attachments, and
there's no reason for people not following the thread to download
images. However, in this case the image wasn't useful. If the icons
are in someone else's application, it doesn't really matter how
"standard" they appear to be.
The only information I could dig up was on the java-dev list
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2005/Apr/msg00049.html>,
which says we're not officially allowed to use the Apple icons. Is
this still true?
As far as I know, yes.
Larry
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