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 Nov 5 2009, 01:00 AM
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 Live long and prosper.  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,142 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 514,926  |
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I just noticed today, while I was looking at my dock in graphics that the creative suite is not a complete functional system. They have improved on their icon designs however, I noticed that every icon is an uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter, like Ps, Dw, Ai. All those except InDesign follow this system. Why did they make the icon for InDesign like that.. "ID" Flash (fl) and Illustrator (Ai) have true lowercase letters. [don't get me started on them only using the name Adobe within the Illustrator icon.] It's just weird, to find an industry leader making a simple mistake like this... |
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Nov 5 2009, 01:27 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 5,880 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,382 |
they can do what they want. they set the standards.
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Nov 5 2009, 01:32 AM
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Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,142 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 514,926 |
They make the programs that can assist us in design, they don't set the standards.
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Nov 5 2009, 01:34 AM
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 in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
It's simple, really...
The "D" in InDesign's icon ID is capitalized because it's capitalized in the name itself. It's like when people abbreviate createBlog to CB or Cb, which makes no sense. It's cB. That's analogous to abbreviating InDesign to something ridiculous like Id or iD. Photoshop stays Ps because the "s" is not capitalized, and yet the "s" signifies the beginning of a new section (?) of the name. Illustrator has "Adobe" in the icon name because you can't really create an abbreviated version of Illustrator for its icon. Unlike Photoshop or InDesign, Illustrator doesn't have two groups of words (Photo and shop, in and design), it's just one word. So 1) they can't separate the word into two parts. And 2), it would be stupid to abbreviate it to Il because then the two letters look the same, or IL, because there is no "L" in Illustrator which is capitalized. Ultimately, yeah it looks a bit inconsistent, but the naming system they have right now is probably the most easily understandable and logical. And if anything, I would expect Adobe to understand not only the importance of the appearance/consistency of a logo or icon, but to understand the importance of readability. Content > Looks. Always. I like how a discussion of icons turned my whole post into something else entirely. |
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Nov 5 2009, 03:34 AM
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 ‹(. .)› Group: Official Member Posts: 2,367 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,089 |
^ i agree. it didn't bother me 'cause that's how i would've expected that icon to look. "Id" wouldn't make sense.
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Nov 5 2009, 03:09 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,665 Joined: Aug 2008 Member No: 676,364 |
Can't you make your own InDesign icon instead? lol.
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Nov 5 2009, 04:36 PM
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 /人◕‿‿◕人\ Group: Official Member Posts: 8,283 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 602,927 |
Bothers me too.
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Nov 5 2009, 09:36 PM
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Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,142 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 514,926 |
QUOTE(Beenly @ Nov 5 2009, 03:09 PM)  Can't you make your own InDesign icon instead? lol. Yeah, you could.. but as Gigi pointed out Id would look even worse. |
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