I dunno. Still, if you feel like starting one, I'd be a subscriber!
I use Adobe Photoshop to make the icons, and Adobe ImageReady to turn the .psd files into animated icons. Each frame or slide is made in Photoshop though, which is where I do cropping, text, etc. I've downloaded several miniature fonts to use for icons, and I always am very careful about picking font color and placement. I hate icons with unreadable font. There's a few basic things you can always remember, though: the font should be against an opposite-colored background. Light against dark, dark against light. I often use contrasting or complimentary colors from within the icon image itself, because I want the font to match the icon. Stuff like red-on-brown is always a bad idea, as is red-on-green or green-on-blue, unless one of the colors is very light green and the other very dark blue. You need contrast. If you have a multi-shaded background with lots of dark or light right next to each other (meaning no solid-color space), then I usually say pick a bright color and outline it in black or very dark drop-shadow, like I do with this icon.
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Date: 2006-05-26 07:32 pm (UTC)I use Adobe Photoshop to make the icons, and Adobe ImageReady to turn the .psd files into animated icons. Each frame or slide is made in Photoshop though, which is where I do cropping, text, etc. I've downloaded several miniature fonts to use for icons, and I always am very careful about picking font color and placement. I hate icons with unreadable font. There's a few basic things you can always remember, though: the font should be against an opposite-colored background. Light against dark, dark against light. I often use contrasting or complimentary colors from within the icon image itself, because I want the font to match the icon. Stuff like red-on-brown is always a bad idea, as is red-on-green or green-on-blue, unless one of the colors is very light green and the other very dark blue. You need contrast. If you have a multi-shaded background with lots of dark or light right next to each other (meaning no solid-color space), then I usually say pick a bright color and outline it in black or very dark drop-shadow, like I do with this icon.