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Description For the Windows version, see [link] - keep in mind that this is old and out of date. Want something newer? Keep reading!

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Presented is a screenshot from a PowerMac G5 of the British Library icon set, developed chiefly by myself. The set contains over 540 full-size (512x512) icons for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which, in turn, weighs in at approximately 190 MB of PNGs. Most of these were produced over the course of a single week.

Major applications are represented with a book for an icon, to encourage regularity in their appearance (and to make additions to the list quick and harmless.)

Yes, 544 motherfucking icons. Big ones. There are one or two at smaller resolutions because they never have to be shown at full resolution.

Of more importance than just the icon set itself is the fact that a nearly-complete (if not totally so) set of system replacement images is provided. Everything from Front Row to iSync to that stupid little lock/unlock animation in the security system has been replaced. One or two programs, such as Audio/MIDI Setup, have been completely untouched because they weren't on the computer we developed this set for, but said computer has not a pixel of aqua icons or stock art anywhere. ANYWHERE.

Some day, perhaps, we'll work out a Windows version of all these things, but the degree of compatibility won't be all that high. (And you'll be limited to about 64x64 as far as usefulness goes, which will suck, unless you use huge-ass thumbnail mode in Explorer at 128x128.)

Best of all, a set of bundles will be available for OS X users with which they can replace all of their resources at once.

...but that's 297.15 MB: [link]
...so here are the source PNGs, too: [link] (They're only 191.04 MB)

MEGAUPLOAD

Dock: [link]
Trash: [link]
Devices: [link]
Core Types: [link]

RAPIDSHARE

Dock: [link]
Trash: [link]
Devices: [link]
Core Types: [link]

It'll take a bit of time to re-release all of the components, but hopefully patience will be available amongst those eager
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Comments: 127

RVeldhuyzen [2007-12-03 15:38:16 +0000 UTC]

Amazing!
Very nice work

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IceFireX In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 15:31:49 +0000 UTC]

i dont have a mac, but this is incredible

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emanuelsv In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 15:19:14 +0000 UTC]

fukin awesome dude!!!!!!

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Noir-Wick In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 15:10:50 +0000 UTC]

Bad ass! So antiquarian. I LOVE it! Makes me sad I don't have a Mac.

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SDouville In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 14:43:04 +0000 UTC]

How can I make that? I mean WOW! it's impressive really impressive!

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Miss-Monday [2007-12-03 14:29:32 +0000 UTC]

Incredibly beautiful! This makes me wish I was a mac user...

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likaspapaya In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 14:27:32 +0000 UTC]

Nice set. They look real good. I'm gonna try these for my desktop mac

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Prelude6x6 [2007-12-03 14:13:07 +0000 UTC]

Extremely nice work! Finlly a FULL icons set <3

Dont you just hate the ones who only cover 50% of your icons?

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BrainInBlack In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 13:37:09 +0000 UTC]

i like it! i need it!

plz make a port for win... xD

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petercui [2007-12-03 13:32:14 +0000 UTC]

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Pypmannetjies [2007-12-03 12:57:34 +0000 UTC]

Too cool!

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tinagurl1990 [2007-12-03 11:41:41 +0000 UTC]

wow i'm so going to download this soon. awesome work. never would've thought you could change so man icons in a week XD

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AllTheSame In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 10:40:10 +0000 UTC]

Awesome. Too bad it isn't for Vista, hehe. I hope you're not a Microsoft-hater, because I'm not a Mac-hater.

Maybe you could collaborate with a Windows skinner to make a Windows version eventually?

Nice work!

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AiOlorWile In reply to AllTheSame [2007-12-03 15:39:12 +0000 UTC]

The Windows stuff will come as it's prepared. Rest assured, it's on the to-do list. As all of these icons were actually *made* on a Windows machine, no further collaboration will be necessary to do so. Just enough time to get it all together.

I'll be making the set up for XP, since I don't have ready access to a Vista box, however. I promise to encode them at the highest resolution Windows can support (pretty sure that's 256x256 for most purposes.)

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amnesiasoft In reply to AiOlorWile [2007-12-04 03:26:51 +0000 UTC]

Yes. Vista *officially* supports 256x256 icons. They are stored as a single icon file, but the 256x256 portion of the file is stored as a PNG.

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AllTheSame In reply to AiOlorWile [2007-12-03 17:34:54 +0000 UTC]

Excellent!

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Hennauoti In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 10:32:24 +0000 UTC]

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Colophonius [2007-12-03 09:55:10 +0000 UTC]


I want a Mac now.
Excellent stuff!

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Sophonax In reply to ??? [2007-12-03 09:50:55 +0000 UTC]

I'm a Windows XP/Vista/Linux user, and I would really like a set for XP/Vista as the default theme is boring and non-sophisticated.

This, however, is an eye-candy. Personally, I love old libraries and I love reading books. --Pointed to all the books in his shelf.-- Alas, as for now, I'll have to satisfy with the PNG version and manually edit it for my likings and usage. I hope you'll fix a Windows version soon enough. <3

Thank you.

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egad [2007-12-03 08:29:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for these!

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SpectacledDaruma [2007-11-28 02:01:20 +0000 UTC]

I don't suppose anyone can instruct a Leopard newbie how to get this most thorough icon set into the system?

Heck, I can't even find most of these icons outside of the CoreServices bundle, and the new CandyBar 3 doesn't seem to go too far beyond the basic application icons.

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KenSaunders [2007-11-27 05:07:10 +0000 UTC]



This really kicks ass!
Really, you rock!
I can appreciate the amount of work that you put into this.
I'd love to be able to get the PSD's.
I'd send you a note but that's still not working here on dA, so will you please contact me via e-mail to discuss the PSD's? Thanks.
Ken Saunders
[link]

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the-ace-chef [2007-11-26 19:57:09 +0000 UTC]

Just the amount if time this must have taken is amazing, and they look superb!

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scartissuemark In reply to ??? [2007-11-26 17:30:49 +0000 UTC]

Awesome design's very olden-time looking, great work, where can i download them?

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AiOlorWile In reply to scartissuemark [2007-11-26 19:06:05 +0000 UTC]

It's done.

[link]

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AiOlorWile In reply to scartissuemark [2007-11-26 17:51:01 +0000 UTC]

They'll be available for download and installation on a Mac with Leopard in a bit over an hour. PNGs will be available about an hour and a half after that.

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