“Yeah, I suck at post titles.” - one of the many things I always realize when writing a blog post…

What I tried to do after my last blog post, was to clean the icons up and add some more sizes. During that process, I decided to switch to a One Canvas Workflow. I already experimented with this but after Jimmac proposed his implementation I crabbted the script and some nice helper extentions for inkscape and converted my canvas-icons to that system.

Also while converting the icons I created some fancy semi-realistic high resolution version (256×256) , which then led to some changes on the smaller resolutions to reflect some changes I did to the 256×256 icons. As a result the look changed a bit to a less tangoisch look. It still fits in with the tango look quite well. What is most visibly, is that I went from a solid outline / inner-outline to a grandient version, thus the hight resolution version is more consistent with the 48×48 versions.

But enough talk, lets show off some icons:

As you can see in the last icon (trash can paper sheets, the white thin line) Inkscape generated some artifacts in this icon. Does someone know a way to work around this?

Also, if you are interested in a color table for inkscape, just put this as file in ‘~/.inkscape/palettes’.

GIMP Palette
Name: Human
Columns: 3
#
255 231 146    Peach 1
255 213  67    Peach 2
213 150   0    Peach 3
252 175  62    Orange 1
245 121   0    Orange 2
206  92   0    Orange 3
255 237 207     Cream 1
227 194 153     Cream 2
191 139 100     Cream 3
138 226  52    Chameleon 1
115 210  22    Chameleon 2
78 154   6    Chameleon 3
114 159 207    Sky Blue 1
52 101 164    Sky Blue 2
32  74 135    Sky Blue 3
239  41  41    Scarlet Red 1
204   0   0    Scarlet Red 2
164   0   0    Scarlet Red 3
244 232 219    Sand 1
208 191 172    Sand 2
169 146 122    Sand 3
141 124 105    Sand 4
90  82  73    Sand 5
49  44  41    Sand 6

As always, if you have some feedback or suggestions, feel free to drop me a comment.

Following the proposal on the Ubuntu Art mailing list, I decided to create a little mockup of what I think the new Ubuntu Icon Theme (aka Human) should look like.

As you can see it mostly uses the Tango-Styling-Guideline, with a little bit of extra gloss. I also used some colors from the Tango color palette, but modified it so it has a more brown-sand-like look.

The main focus of this theme is, to create a modern, elegant icon theme that fits well into the Gnome desktop.

A few tests to see how the icons work in different sizes:

If you have some feedback or suggestions, just drop me a comment.