Re: Re: No way.

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-02-23) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Icons with some plasticity as the ones above would give
>>> preview-latex a look which is a bit more modern.  (Is the color cell
>>> problem still an issue?)
>>
>> I don't know.  Anyway, the error icon does not need to look nice.  It
>> is supposed to stand out.  And traffic signs _are_ flat.
>
> So what?  If this would be about realism, you could just get
> outside, shoot a photo of such a sign and put that in.

Much too low contrast, bad digitization artifacts.

> (In the larger versions you could stand beside the sign and make a
> grim face.)
>
>> Maybe I should add a one-pixel border of desaturized red (strictly
>> speaking something like grey20, but since most backgrounds will
>> probably be light, grey40 might be better) around the sign to make it
>> blend better with weakly colored backgrounds.  That would take the
>> edge off somewhat.
>
> Most of the Gnome 1.x XPM icons had sharp black borders (see
> <URL:http://web.archive.org/web/20000817013044/tigert.gimp.org/gnome/gnome-stock/>)
> and many of the current ones have, too (though not that sharp).

That won't help me against digitization artifacts.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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