Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: dreamisle on March 13, 2007, 01:50:25 am

Title: Icon Set
Post by: dreamisle on March 13, 2007, 01:50:25 am

Hey everyone. I've been working on an icon set for my website, which is http://thegriddle.net because I wanted a cool icon based layout that worked well with XHTML validity. I like my layout and I like my icons for the most part. The maze one is randomized using php, which I'm especially proud of, cause the coding for that is still a bit new to me. I'm posting mostly because although I may edit some of these, I mostly want suggestions for improvements on icons I make in the future. Anyway, enough jibber jabber (since most people won't read this anyway).

(http://thegriddle.net/icons/logomatrix.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/icons/logoblackbox.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/icons/logomaze.php)(http://thegriddle.net/icons/logocraft.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/icons/logoq.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/logo.PNG)
(http://thegriddle.net/p.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/a.PNG)(http://thegriddle.net/l.PNG)

Edited to include mini icons for puzzle, answer key, links.

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: dreamisle on March 16, 2007, 11:17:30 pm

Added another icon for one of the magazines I'm doing puzzles for. Also working on a dark gray/black icon with some isometric stuff on it. Not sure what it will be for though.

(http://www.thegriddle.net/icons/logopl.PNG)(http://www.thegriddle.net/logocube.PNG)

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: philipptr on March 17, 2007, 08:28:18 am

Why are you using subpixel-antialiased fonts on some while using pixeled fonts on others? Also I would prefer a non-blurred shadow for such a clean design. Otherwise they are nice

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: Sherman Gill on March 17, 2007, 09:38:25 am

Subpixel... Anti-aliased...
Philip, I'm pretty sure Sub-pixel is a term used entirely for animation...
Also, all of them are AA'ed, just some less than others. And on that subject, I think you could cut down the blurryness of the grey G. Doesn't really read well.

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: philipptr on March 17, 2007, 11:10:28 am

The term "subpixelantialiasing" isn't only used in animation. You can use it to make fonts looks smoother on a tft (Well actually its supposed to do that but imo it doesn't work). Since there are red green and blue subpixels in a tft-panel it uses these to show details of a font which aren't exactly placed on one pixel. example:
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5581/subpixelqg3.gif)

Now if this technique works, there should appear a black pixel in the white area above. (On my tft it doesn't).
You can enable subpixelantialiasing in windows, it's called "clearType".

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: Akira on March 17, 2007, 11:38:51 am

heh, you got the colours the wrong way around.
(http://imagehost.ensellitis.com/imagesv2/8947794475black.gif)

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: philipptr on March 17, 2007, 11:55:22 am

yeah, you're right, was thinking of this effect in front of a black background, but then did it on a white bg ;)

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: dreamisle on March 17, 2007, 05:51:40 pm

Woah, neat trick :)

Anyway, I'm not sure exactly which icons you guys are pointing out, but the one with the blue question marks and the plain tg icon were just some placeholder icons I made to test out the new system, and I forgot those two weren't pixeled. I'll go in and replace them right now since I have nothing else to do atm.

Edit: Changed those two icons. Let me know if there's anything else you guys would like to comment on. :) Thanks for the c+c so far!

Title: Re: Icon Set
Post by: dreamisle on March 19, 2007, 03:08:36 pm

(http://www.thegriddle.net/icons/logows.PNG)

This is another new icon I've made. It's for word search puzzles.