Sure, watches that tell you when you’re walking unsteadily and pocket computer phones that show you the closest pizzeria are swell, but were you around for ResEdit?
Personal site of author, designer, Automattician, and A List Apart founder & publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. Teaching and writing about web design and web standards since 1995. Also featuring “My Glamorous Life,” “Fifteen Minutes,” and other entertainments.
@zeldman CandyBar is still limping along!
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2022/04/candybar-sugar-free-edition/
If you’ve been following our work for awhile, the name CandyBar may ring a bell. It’s an app we worked on with Panic and released in 2002. Twenty years ago! CandyBar did one thing and it did it well: every system icon on your Mac could be changed, including folders and disks, with the click […]
@zeldman Good times!
My somewhat popular Evil Peacock's Icon Extravaganza "directory" from 97-2000 is still archived online.
It may be the ultimate example of link rot 🫤.
https://archive.opaquedream.com/ep_web_3/icon_page/icon_domestic.html
The @Iconfactory link is probably the only one that still works!
Edit — Zeldman's Pardon My Icons link also still works!
@zeldman I remember a guy named Hide Itoh. Itoh was the best 32x32 icon designer I ever saw; he had a supernatural ability to represent pretty much anything—sushi, household items, guitars, you name it—as an instantly recognizable icon. I used his sets for years.
Edit: a collection of his work is here: https://www.iconarchive.com/artist/pixture.html
(Not sure what happened to Itoh; he disappeared from the web years ago, and as far as I can tell, he's not working as a designer today.)
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