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Download the .icns file (Update: this is the updated version from below)

This is the icon I proposed in #41. I have created a new .icns file with slightly tweaked versions at 512@2x, 256@2x, and 128@2x. Smaller versions will scale down using the 128@2x version.

This is the 128@2x version:

icon_128x128 2x

I also updated the document icon.

Before:

macvim-generic-old

After:

icon_512x512 2x

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👍

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agsdot commented Aug 24, 2014

Nice!

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oleyb commented Aug 25, 2014

This is sooo good.

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DomT4 commented Aug 25, 2014

I commented on the other thread too, but a 👍 from me. It looks great alongside the other Yosemite icons. Hope this one gets merged.

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khzaw commented Aug 25, 2014

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bruno- commented Aug 25, 2014

Really nice 👍

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jaxbot commented Aug 25, 2014

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porada commented Aug 25, 2014

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natw commented Aug 25, 2014

I'm not loving the low contrast. The V, especially in the upper left, starts to fade into the background. It's certainly more Yosemite-ish, and probably even better looking, but not nearly as iconic.

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rricard commented Aug 25, 2014

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fatih commented Aug 25, 2014

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@natw I disagree, it fits perfectly in my yosemite context. Contrast is good too :)

zenangst added a commit to zenangst/macvim that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2014
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mdznr commented Aug 25, 2014

The shadow is a bit wonky. It's not soft and is just offset vertically. This won't work super well alongside other app icons. The shadow form the 'V' can be sharper against the diamond, but not against the background.

The styling of the shapes (inner shadows) feels strange and would work better if removed, especially when the icon is scaled down.

The serifs on the 'V' shape are extremely rounded, creating a fully rounded end-cap, which is highly unusually for a typeface and distracting because of it.

If you're using a green color close enough to the ones used on Apple's own iOS and OS X apps, just use the same exact color(s), otherwise it creates inconsistency and dissonance.

The icon I've proposed in #43 solves some of these issues. I started working on that icon before even realizing there were discussions about it.

Shown below is the 128x128 version of the icon I've proposed.
icon_128x128

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@mdznr I have to say I disagree with most of this. The shadows are cast vertically because the light source of Yosemite icons is directly above. The inner and outer shadows here match up very close to the reference Yosemite icons I have, as do the gradients. I've tweaked the shadows at the smaller sizes in my .icns. And I definitely don't agree with using the exact same green that Apple is using for their icons.

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mdznr commented Aug 25, 2014

@jasonlong

Sorry, I should've been more clear. Yes, the shadow will still cast down vertically, but it should be blurred more. Right now it is very sharp (not a lot of depth between the shape and the background). This is not how the other app icons (especially Apple's) are.

The inner shadows are several pixels thick and are very dark and very light. This is not how they appear on the Yosemite icons.
screen shot 2014-08-25 at 4 19 08 pm

Not every icon needs to be limited to the small color palette, yes. However, the green shown above is treading too close to the standard green Apple is using. If you don't wish to use that green, move further away from it, otherwise it looks and feels like a mismatch and not a deliberate choice.

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Ok, I took a closer look at the shadows and made some tweaks. I think these are looking better do indeed match the reference icons better.

icon_256x256

icon_128x128 2x

I still don't buy the green argument (and I'm pretty fond of this color). There are going to be a zillion green app icons all over the spectrum, including shades of light green. I don't believe that there should be some value where icon colors should "snap" to Apple's lime green.

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ghost commented Aug 26, 2014

awesomesauce 👍

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fgr0 commented Aug 26, 2014

Awesome icon! I just wanted to ask, if someone could also generate the custom-filetype-icons using this design. The scripts to generate them haven't worked for me since Mountain Lion :(

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shaond commented Jan 22, 2015

Folks, @jocelynmallon has done a fine job of merging all these pull requests and documented how to install it on her blog: https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/macvim-for-yosemite/

It's worth checking out. Kudos go to @jocelynmallon (you rock!).

update_app_and_document_icon_for_yosemite_by_jasonlong_ pull_request__44 _b4winckler_macvim

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@shaond 👍

Great work @jocelynmallon

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eirnym commented Jan 23, 2015

👍 I like this icon

krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Feb 1, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kriesten <krid@tu-chemnitz.eu>
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@jasonlong did you submit this via mailing list? I'm not sure that @b4winckler monitors this repo here. Maybe soon now that Google Code is shutting down.

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simono commented Mar 13, 2015

I don't know if this repository is monitored at all. See https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_mac/-bd5RKGs8qw and https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim

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Thanks for the heads-up @simono. I'll submit a PR over on @macvim-dev's repo.

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krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Apr 2, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Apr 17, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
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ghecho commented Apr 29, 2015

👍

krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request May 6, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
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I love it! What a delightful surprise when I ran brew upgrade today.

krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request May 21, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
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jtheoof commented Jul 13, 2015

Yeah, @johnstephens is right! So the new icon is there, but the MR is still opened. What kind of magic happened here?

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simono commented Jul 14, 2015

@jtheoof see macvim-dev/macvim#1

krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Jul 28, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Aug 3, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
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Going to close this. For those interested, the icon is now available in https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim which is what homebrew uses now.

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krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Sep 5, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Oct 4, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Nov 3, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
krid78 pushed a commit to krid78/macvim that referenced this pull request Nov 21, 2015
I found the icon set via b4winckler#44

There are two blog posts from the (original?) author:
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/filedoc-icons-for-macvim/
https://girlintroverted.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/macvim-doc-icons-redux-howto/

But yet, I simply cpoied the icons directly into the icns dir.
@jasonlong jasonlong deleted the yosemite-icon branch February 12, 2016 14:24
ssoriche added a commit to ssoriche/dotfiles that referenced this pull request Oct 16, 2020
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