Icons for Smardac Config.

Do you have KeyShot?
It has this gamma librery I think it would be greate for config:

Hi Andrei

I don't have keyshot but do have Serif DrawPlus which has all the pantone colour libraries.

Can you elaborate a little more about what you are thinking with regard to colour icons & pantones and I'll see what I can do ?

I mean use for example orange, yellow and red colors from this pallete.

I mean I like a lot this pastel tones. I thin they will suit color scheme of config.
You can try to make some icons using these tones and we will see how it looks.

Here is first take on a coloured version.

If there are particular colours you would like to see me try for these icons let me know the RGB values and I can try them out.

I like how orange and yellow looks on first buttons, I think it is way to go!
Also check this buttons of Cinema 4D they have this colors orange and yellow and it looks really nice!



Also as you can see some times it uses blue and green I think we can do the same for example on instances and other stuff like it. You already made instances green A little White color on some details also looks not bed. As I can Save buttons have a bit white, it looks good.
I think we have to use the same colors like in C4D.

Andrei

Thanks, your C4D post helps.

Couple of questions.

• The C4D icons look to be 24 or 32px. I am working with much smaller size of 16px so cannot get fine detail into the icon at this size.
• Your interface is light grey. Are you thinking I make the background of the icon a mid to dark grey like C4D and leave the button light grey ?
  

The C4D icons look to be 24 or 32px. I am working with much smaller size of 16px so cannot get fine detail into the icon at this size

I do not know exactly how big they are but they are defenetly bigger than our buttons in Config. So it is not a problem if you loose details, I know it is impossible withthis small icon size.

Your interface is light grey. Are you thinking I make the background of the icon a mid to dark grey like C4D and leave the button light grey ?

Can y8u make one button to see how it willlooks?

Can you make one button to see how it looks?

Here is a sample of a C4D type colour on the button.

I have had to composite this image together in a image editor.

I could not get the image to display correctly on the button in Nvil, it kept giving display errors. The buttons work well with alpha channels but don't work well with solid coloured backgrounds for some strange reason.

I think button looks good but that dark background looks like do not fit well with this light scheme of UI.
I think we have to go with transparent background, you made it nice here, but keep that yellow/orange/dark red colors:


Or we can try to make dark scheme like C4D have and try its buttons with gray background. What do you think?

I think if you like orange and yellow colors they will stand out better on dark grey theme. With the 16px icons I am creating, I am unable to add the black borders around the yellow and orange to make them pop on light theme. I just don't have enough pixels to work with.

The red works well with the light theme but would not work well in a dark theme.

So I think we need light colored icons for dark theme.
Dark colored icons for light theme.

Here is an example in red.

I just elaborate pallet for icons, you can take colors from preference icon.
First colors are Yellow and Orange, secondary is Brown.
These icons are not use any type of strokes.


What do you think?

Andrei

I really like the style you've come up with.

However I don't think the bright colors read so well against the light grey scheme. They would probably be better suited to a dark theme.

Any interest in a blue theme, I prefer that one ?
Or a blue-gray theme could look quite good also.

No matter what theme is chosen I think other colors would need to be introduced as there are many buttons in your interface.

Hay I think we have to use all the schemes you shown. Different colors for different buttons groups.
For example check this:


I just randomly put colors to show you idea.
May be it will help to distinguish things different buttons different colors.
What do you think?

Also you can introduce another colors as many as you will need.