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Actionscript needs an icon

October 20th, 2008 . by polygeek

Where’s the love? Adobe has all sorts of icons on that Wheel-o-icons of theirs. There’s even icons on there that I’ve never seen anywhere else. So what about good’ol Actionscript, eh? Really, where’s the love? :-)

Since there isn’t an Actionscript icon I made one. That’s one of the things that I love about the new icon family: They’re so plain I can actually design one from scratch. If Adobe were still doing icon/logos like the pre-CS3 days I’d be screwed.

Actionscript Icon

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I’m using the Andalé Mono font because that’s my mono-spaced font of choice. I picked the color gradient to be sort of like an overlay between the Flex-gray and Flash-red.

Not sure if I like the “3″ up there or not. What do you think?

Addendum: I added a link to the PSD so that people could use it if they wanted to. Help yourself. I do hearby decree that anyone and everyone is free to use the above icon in any way they see fit without attribution. Set the pixels free. That’s my motto.

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17 Responses to “Actionscript needs an icon”


comment number 1 by: Leonardo França

very nice, congradulations =)

comment number 2 by: Paul Simkins

Nice look. The three might be better inside the brackets and not superscripted, but you may not have room for that.

comment number 3 by: polygeek

@Paul, yeah, I messed around with variations on the “3″ and wasn’t really happy with any of them. There’s the PSD there. Have a try yourself.

comment number 4 by: Paul Simkins

Nooo, it’s much easier to critique someone else’s work! .

Seriously, I like the color and even like the idea. I have no talent for art, I can manipulate well, but don’t ask me to design.

comment number 5 by: girlgeek

That is seriously cool and even elegant. Send it to Adobe.

girlgeeks last blog post..Sarah Palin vs Tina Fay – Body Doubles on SNL

comment number 6 by: polygeek

@Paul, I’m with you. Ask me to make a design that looks like it comes from a control panel on a Star Trek spaceship and I’m your man. Anything else and it can get ugly real quick. :-)

@girlGeek, Thanks for the compliment. And I’m pretty sure a few people from Adobe saw it.

comment number 7 by: TroyWorks

Totally, shouts out to Adobe, fists in the AIR* “where’s the iconage love for AS3?, must we mere mortal coders attempt to tribute with our modicum of font and design talent?”

Anyway I like it.

comment number 8 by: ActionScript logo | negush blog

[...] not sure yet how or where I will embed it – if I will embed it at all) and came across this blog entry from polygeek. Apparently he too would like to see Adobe come up with a logo for [...]

comment number 9 by: negush

Indeed, how come Adobe didn't come up with a logo. I mean AS is used for Flex, Flash and AIR. I'd say that's a pretty important piece of technology there. It should deserve a logo.

Anyway, nice looking logo you have there :). Would it be ok if I would use it in my website / blog ? pliiiizzzz :D

comment number 10 by: polyGeek

@neqush, use it all you want.

comment number 11 by: negush

Thanks, polygeek. I just thought I should ask before using. Thanks again.

comment number 12 by: arpit

Can I echo negush and use your AS3 icon in an opensource project ? Pleeasseee? (http://openpyro.org)

comment number 13 by: polygeek

@arpit, I added an addendum to this post just for you. :)

These past few days have seen the FPD community up in arms over the frakkers over at sys-con for generally stealing other peoples work. Glad to see that so many in our community are concerned about copy-right and doing the right thing.

comment number 14 by: ScooterSim

Got a link on the Sys-con issue? Would love to read about it.

comment number 15 by: polyGeek

@ScooterSim, check out Bit101.com.

comment number 16 by: eldervaz

comment number 17 by: polyGeek

@aldervaz, rock on! I love it. I used Google tranlator to read your post. I don't plan on getting any tattoos but if I did that's what I'd get.

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