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| The Galaxy Icons |
 The
new style:: Characteristic | Design | Colors | Evolution
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| Behavior: Disabled
icons | Selected icons |
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| Characteristic
of the Galaxy Style |
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| Color |
New, clear, fresh and harmonic color
palette |
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Be careful with saturation, avoiding extremes |
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Color language - same symbolism like
Andromeda style (see IconDesignGuide,
Page 26)
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| Form |
Simple - reduce to basic elements and
characterisics |
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Smooth look (round corners) |
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| Perspective |
Straight-on perspective
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rotating objects when to make
exceptions |
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| Lighting |
Two-part system (top-down light, buttom-up
light) |
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Low sheen, diffuse reflection materials |
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Realistic effects (glassy, metallic) |
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| Technical |
24bit with alpha channel
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small size (16 x 16 pixel), lagre size
(26 x 26 pixel)
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High contrast version of all icons |
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| The Galaxy Design |
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Please,
keep in mind: |
Look good on different platforms |
| Make sure that Windows users feel at home |
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| Examples of the new Galaxy Style |
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| The Galaxy Icons in Context |
| See Writer icons in context: Windows | Linux | Mac |
| See Calc icons in context: Windows | Linux | Mac |
| See Impress icons in context: Windows | Linux | Mac |
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The Galaxy Color
Palette |
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| Here you
could find the Galaxy color
palette for GIMP.
Thank you to Christoph Noack for creating this
.gpl file :-) |
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| Now, you
could find the Galaxy colors for OpenOffice.org, too. Please find
the Galaxy colors as Draw document
(.odg file)
or as OOo color palette (.soc
file). Thank you to the
creater :-) |
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