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The Finer Details of Mac Icons
Leander Kahney takes a closer look at several Apple and non-Apple application icons to point out some of the finer details that can go unnoticed unless viewed up-close. Sure, you can do this yourself in Finder by browsing to the Applications folder and enlarging the icons or using CoverFlow, but he picked out a few that offer some interesting details. The leather and binding textures of Address Book are astounding and the clunky, beige monitor used to identify networked PCs—aptly shown with a BSOD—is not only nicely designed, but the jab is fun, too.
I browsed through my Application icons and noticed a few new details, as well. On the stem of the leaf used for Panic’s Coda, there are tiny hairs just like you’d find on a real leaf. Subtle, yes, but the attention to detail is what we’re after here:
In MacRabbit’s CSSEdit icon, among the scribbles on the paper is another nice jab, “ie sucks”:
