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Hai-Etlik — Simple Graphical Emoticons by-sa

Published: 2006-03-11 08:49:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 4715; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 250
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Description This is an emoticon set I created for the Two Cities MOO web forum and have since added to a bit.

I designed it for simplicity, clarity, and consistency. Colour count is kept low, no antialiasing or alpha channel is used (so it works just fine with Internet Explorer). All images are indexed PNGs.

Free to use under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 or later.

Suggestions/Requests are welcome provided they are reasonably generic and useful, can be pulled off without deviating from the existing style, and don't require animation.

Update: 2006 March 16

Added some new ones including Cold, Talking, Sneering, Scared, and a Maple Leaf. I particularly like the Sneer.

Update: 2006 December 20

Added Hot (Not as easy to convey as cold), Skull (I really like this one), Orc, Fox, Cyclops, Insect, and Rodent (Looks most like a Beaver to me, but those of you in need of squirrel, rat, or capybura emoticons will have to make do)

Update: 2006 December 22

Added Book, Club, Devil, Dog, Ghost, Heart, Lozenge, Satyr, Sleeping, Snakeman, Spade, Tired, Vampire, and Wolf.

Modified Hot, Sick, Scared, Rodent

Added a Gaim theme file. Currently generic without protocol specific mappings.

Update: 2007 January 2

Quite a few additions.
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Comments: 5

StevenLeonCooper [2006-05-23 06:03:42 +0000 UTC]

Why not gif?

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Hai-Etlik In reply to StevenLeonCooper [2006-05-23 06:35:52 +0000 UTC]

It is technically inferior, there was a nasty patent issue that has admittedly mostly been resolved, it is not a W3C recommended format for Web use, and I just don't like GIF.

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StevenLeonCooper In reply to Hai-Etlik [2006-05-23 07:45:52 +0000 UTC]

oh, I don't like them that much either I just wondered. Though I rarely listen to W3C, Occasionaly their reccomendations start sounding like some type of hyper-specific HTML bureaucracy that I'm just not into.

I Also think that we need to start worrying less about Internet Explorer. The reason it won't get beaten down by Firefox is because as web designers we let the viewers come first and try to accomodate to as many browsers as possible. But if we stop adding support for IE eventually people will stop using IE. People want their internet and when it comes to push and shove they won't abandon their favorite site just because they love IE.

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Hai-Etlik In reply to StevenLeonCooper [2006-05-23 08:02:36 +0000 UTC]

Personaly I tend to ignore IE in web design as it is. But one of the requitements when making these for Two Cities was IE compatibility. And besides that the "pixel art" look with no antialiasing works well for emoticons.

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StevenLeonCooper In reply to Hai-Etlik [2006-05-23 08:36:51 +0000 UTC]

yes aliasing just makes it look like you smooshed the emocations with your thumb

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