{"id":58,"date":"2004-04-25T14:33:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"toolbar-icons-on-brushed-metal-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/toolbar-icons-on-brushed-metal-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolbar icons on Brushed Metal Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/icons\/BMWicons.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Toolbar icons on Brushed Metal Window\" \/>There are some people who think that Toolbar icons and Brushed Metal Window absolutely doesn&#8217;t go together, I do agree with them but after some playing with toolbar icons for my client&#8217;s upcoming application, it&#8217;s possible for them to look good together by changing the shadow setting.  Instead of using standard floor shadow, I used back shadow to help create a depth between icon and Brushed Metal Window.<\/p>\n<p>Another way would be insetting them like Safari&#8217;s toolbar controls but it will not works for some icons such as Manage Filters icon on <I>Fig. 1<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple should address this problem in their <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/UserExperience\/Conceptual\/OSXHIGuidelines\/XHIGIcons\/chapter_13_section_1.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/20000967-DontLinkElementID_252073\">Human Interface Guidelines<\/a> if they&#8217;re going to leave Toolbar support for Brushed Metal Window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some people who think that Toolbar icons and Brushed Metal Window absolutely doesn&#8217;t go together, I do agree with them but after some playing with toolbar icons for my client&#8217;s upcoming application, it&#8217;s possible for them to look good together by changing the shadow setting. Instead of using standard floor shadow, I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}