“Expedition” Button Icon Set
Every once in awhile, someone asks me to add a toolbar to Cocoalicious. As much as I appreciate the fine art of the OS X toolbar icon, however, I’ve always balked at this request. The main reason is that I’m very keen on keeping the Cocoalicious interface minimalist, and the standard Cocoa toolbar is, well, anything but. Cocoalicious also happens to use a metal textured window (yes, I know, boo hiss—cry me a river), and I have come to feel that the average OS X toolbar icon looks kind of lame on metal (see Adam Betts on this).
I definitely recognize the need for more intuitive access to some of the app’s more common functions, though, so I asked my brother to design a standard set of those little, plastic-looking buttons used in Safari. Always one to rise to the challenge, Bobby produced a lovely set of 100 icons (50 in the off state, 50 in the on state), which he calls “Expedition.” It’s now available from his site for $75. I’ve already bought a set for use in Cocoalicious, so look for them to appear in a future build.