As long as we're talking about coding metaphors, I have to give my thumbs-down to the yellow hard hat metaphor -- it, too, is entirely indistinct at small sizes, and even at larger sizes it lacks the "distinct shape" Rodney mentioned, as well as detail and contrast. Is it a lemon? A tennis ball? A gumdrop? And even if it is recognized eventually as a hard hat, it doesn't communicate. Hard hats are safety gear, not tools, not process, not product. At the very least, if you are going with the "construction work" metaphor, a hammer is more visually distinctive and more appropriate.
<br><br>Just wanted to get that off my chest.<br><br>Nate<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mathias Brodala</b> <<a href="mailto:info@noctus.net">info@noctus.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And the Makefile icon looks cluttered to me since there's to much going on at<br>it. This will become obvious if you try to create the lower resolution versions.
<br>The idea of the conversion from source text to a binary file is not quite bad,<br>but you should go with a much simpler approach.<br><br>I for myself prefer the Makefile icon[0] from the Unabashed Tango Theme[1]. It<br>
tells me directly and without thinking about that it has something to do with<br>building something. And that's what it does.<br><br>Just my $0.02.<br><br><br>Regards, Mathias<br><br><br>[0] <a href="http://download.noctus.net/gallery/caps/unabashed-makefile.png">
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