I've looked at many, many icons, but just couldn't find what I wanted. I want icons of incredible beauty, and many of a type. So I made my own sets. Some are quite large sets, of over a thousand per. But this set is the most beautiful, is a manageable size for downloading, and has the fewest copyright problems (none, I hope).
I've supplied them in two forms. Each icon is pasted on a blank ResEdit file so you can cut and paste them. I presume that's how much icon work is done, manually. I've also supplied the same icons in a single file, the one with the suitcase. This is an "I Like Icon" file that you can open with ResEdit. It's how I use the icons since they take up less room when waiting to be used.
How I use them: The programs that I use a lot naturally create many files. For instance, I'll have several hundred FrameMaker, Illustrator or Stuffit files, rigorously filed around. But looking at window where file after file has the same icon is boring. So I have a set for each common application. Each FrameMaker file, for instance, is pasted with one of these glass icons. I know at once that it's a Frame file since only Frame files use that set.
But my eye is delighted at the variety and beauty.
I accomplish the automatic icon pasting by Frontier scripts, which randomly select one and paste it.
These originated as now antique paperweights. I scanned them from a book and did the various things to convert the scans to icons. They are free to you, but I'd like to know how far they go. This complete package can be distributed around to various archives and be included on any CD provided I get a copy.
