MAC DESKTOP ICONS TRANSLUCENT WINDOWS

MAC DESKTOP ICONS TRANSLUCENT WINDOWS

Icons in Windows 3.1 resembled Windows 3.0 icons with more detail, despite still being 32Г—32 pixels and 16 colors. RELATED: Windows 3.0 Is 30 Years Old: Here's What Made It Special Windows 3.1 (1992) She set archetypes in Microsoft icon design that would filter down through future Microsoft apps and versions of Windows alike. With 3.0, Windows icons used color for the first time, and Kare imparted them with the right mix of playfulness and business sense that made them very appealing. Kare had previously designed icons and fonts for the original Macintosh. Windows 3.0 introduced the capability to display 16-color icons that were 32Г—32 pixels in size, and they featured a new вЂњ3DвЂќ look (as it was called at the time)В with simulated shadows, courtesy of artist Susan Kare. RELATED: 35 Years of Microsoft Windows: Remembering Windows 1.0 Windows 3.0 (1990) In those days, Windows ran as a basic graphical shell over MS-DOS, so the basic list of files made sense-even if it wasnвЂ™t as visually appealing as later approaches. To run apps in Windows 1 or 2, youвЂ™d pick a file name from a list in a program called вЂњMS-DOS Executive.вЂќ MS-DOS Executive didnвЂ™t show icons, only the names of the files (as if you typed the вЂњdirвЂќ command in DOS). Icons were simple black-and-white illustrations that were 32Г—32 pixels in size. In the first two major releases of Windows, application icons only appeared if you minimized a program to the taskbar at the bottom of the screen (in Windows 1.x) or to the desktop (in Windows 2.x).

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