Compleat iPhone icons
The folks over at fontblog.de have applied their stereotypically Teutonic thoroughgoing industriousness –
…our designer Magnus at studio adhoc (Berlin, Germany) gets frustrated. After some trials he wrote me “Now I like to know exactly what is happening within that damned iPhone” and generated some test cards: 57 x 57 (ouch), 58 x 58 (argh), 59 x 59 (no, no), 60 x 60 (not bad, but not perfect). After some hours of experimentation he mailed me the perfect dimensions:
– to settling once and for all how to make pixel-exact iPhone icons with no blurs, crops or scaling of your crisp, clean creations.
They even provide a .psd template, which we’ll mirror for you here in case it goes away; full instructions and details can be found in their post.
h/t: BraveNewCode!
May 12th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Thanks for enjoying our »teutonic« engineering … have fun and great iPhone icons.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Heh. Well, when I looked at it myself, I got as far as “there’s some more complicated top-fit-to-width kind of jiggery going on” and stopped once the results were not quite horrible. And that when you guys got at the same problem you didn’t stop until you’d nailed it down to exact pixel accuracy, well, that struck me as amusingly playing to stereotype