Hi all,
The past week, I've been working on a tool to convert icons so they show up as intended. The core functionality works, but I need to polish everything up before I can release it. In the mean time, I'm looking for icons to test the tool on.
Now here the background:
Under Workbench 1.x, the color scheme was blue, white, black, orange. Then WB 2.0 came along, changing this to gray, black, white and blue. Also, all icons now had a border around them. So WB 1.x icons really don't look as intended on 2.0 and later systems. And also under 1.x the assumption is we run 640x200 or 640x256, while under 2.0 everything's designed for 640x400 / 640x512, so 1.x icons look flattened.
Then we got MagicWB, which uses 8-color icons with a slight change to the four WB2.0 colors. However, when you run in a screen mode with more (or fewer) than 8 colors, this will throw off MagicWB's palette. Even worse, under 3.0 colors 4 - 7 will automatically change as needed by the content that's displayed on the Workbench screen. So you see MagicWB icons change from ugly to garish to interesting and back.
Then we got NewIcons (and more in OS versions past 3.1), which puts the icon's palette inside the icon, so these issues are no longer relevant. But that doesn't fix old icons.
This is where my tool comes in: it converts old icons into NewIcons and encodes the proper palette show from now on, they'll show as close to intended as possible considering screen mode and palette limitations, if any.
I've already been testing with some random icons have lying around, but I would be very grateful for pointers towards more icons to test with and I believe there are MagicWB competitors that do something similar. If I can find those, I can add them to the tool, so please let me know if you're familiar with anything like that.
Also, I sometimes see "Color Icons" mentioned along with NewIcons. However, finding the proper name "Color Icons" with Google on a web full of icon talk that also mentions colors has so far been impossible. Any pointers would be appreciated.
[Edit to update the title.]