Re: Icon love
- From: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- To: jacob ximian com, tigert ximian com
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org, jimmac ximian com
- Subject: Re: Icon love
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:27:45 +0000 (GMT)
>On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 19:47, jacob berkman wrote:
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> it would be nice if there were Go icons to complement Stop.
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>Hmm. Good idea. But this time I am wise in advance:
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> Does anyone know of a country that uses a red standing guy in a
> traffic light to indicate "GO!" and a walking green guy to indicate
> "Stop!"? As we have learned, you never know... :o)
Sigh....
well I understand that in some cultures it's offensive to use
representations of humans in icons in the first place ;-)
so probably there isn't a truly universal answer...
Much more seriously, it's a bad idea to use red and green to distinguish
these since in that case about 2% of the male user population will be
unable to tell them apart... (red/green color blindness, actually quite
common). The standing/walking metaphor is probably OK except that the
icon might have to be harge-ish in order to distinguish the figure.
So the stoplight metaphor is probably not good for "go", the octagon is
recognized in a number of cultures (but not all) as a "stop sign", even
if it's not red.
-Bill
>If not, that would be an idea worth trying for a go icon.
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>Tig
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>Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director
>:: Ximian, Inc.
>tigert ximian com ::
>www.ximian.com
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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland
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