Visual Design :: Galaxy Icons

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The Galaxy Icons
The new style:: Characteristic \| Design \| Colors \| Comparison \| MimeType
Behavior: Disabled icons \| Selected icons

Disabled icon state

Normal	Example of new Galaxy icons:

	The new Galaxy style have a lot of decoration effects (light reflex, gradient, drop shadow, etc.) These effects make the icon shapes more blurry than the older "Classic" icons (Andromeda).
	A new way of drawing disable icons get more necessary than ever...

Current disable style	See how the new Galaxy icons will look as disabled:

	• The icons lost their meaning • Different icons looking similar • The huge grey area is too prominent, sometimes more than a normal icon • And it looks terrible bad

Proposals for "disabled"	The disabled Galaxy icons should be look like one of these:

Proposal #01
	Color:	greyscale
	Opacity:	20%


Proposal #02
	Color:	greyscale
	Opacity:	30%


Proposal #03
	Color:	greyscale
	Opacity:	40%


Proposal #04
	Color:	greyscale
	Opacity:	50%


A11y – disabled icons	See how the disabled high contrast icons will look:

The high contrast version of Proposal #02
	Color:	greyscale
	Opacity:	30%

Last change: 08/16/2007 by sts