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[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Harold,

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
> The 24 x 24 16 color icon is blue rather than black.

Oops, sorry, corrected in the attachment, I hope.  Still looking for a
decent free icon editor that doesn't let me make mistakes like that
and doesn't have too many bugs.

> I am not so sure that a full white background with a black border
> around that is the best solution.  Would it be acceptable to add a
> white border around the X icon, rather than a full background?

The problem is - as I see it - that the slopes of the "X" are not at
45 degrees, so you can not get it really nice-looking with full
colors.  That's why the anti-aliasing is important.  But than you have
the problem I mentioned before: You can't do anti-aliasing with the
transparency mask, so you loose if you don't have a light background
to blend in with the anti-aliased border.

eXceed used to fix the problem by skewing the icon so that the slope
*is* 45 degrees.  But that looks ugly to me, too.

benny

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