[Kyek]

Wow, that's incredible work, derTech! If you hadn't posted anything but the images, I'd have assumed you got them from the actual companies. Awesome

(Though, as much as I hate Facebook and never ever use it... I don't think I can agree that it's not important ;-))

[iCyan]

Nice!

[derTechniker]

Kyek, on 20 May 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

Wow, that's incredible work, derTech! If you hadn't posted anything but the images, I'd have assumed you got them from the actual companies. Awesome

(Though, as much as I hate Facebook and never ever use it... I don't think I can agree that it's not important ;-))

Thanks!

i must admit that i found the "in" from linkedin in a "social network icon font" as the original font used by linkedin is a commercial font, and i could not find a good free alternative.

I start to like Ai. And i'm practicing as i need to do a logo too.

[Sync]

Wow they look really great, good work!
Illustrator is such a great program, in no time you can create some really cool stuff.

[derTechniker]

What do you think of this version.




The right side would be the "normal" image, and the left side would be the hover effect?

[derTechniker]

Okay sorry for the doublepost. I had another idea for the "hover" effect, i will add a text under each button on hover. Again right is the "normal" view, left is the "hover" view.

Please tell me if you like it, and should i have the text on the "normal" view too (in grey) ?

[Kyek]

Huge fan of the hover states, not a huge fan of the text. The icons would take up more vertical space, it limits how small you can make the icons because the text would be unreadable, and the font's a bit off for normal text. If you want the name of the service to show up on hover, I'd recommend a sweet-looking javascript tooltip that animates in and out

[derTechniker]

AT the moment it would look like this.




Still the images are a bit big, i consider making them smaller. Vertical space is not a problem, i have plenty of space there as you can see Hm i will defenitely think about the JS tooltip. I would imagine that looking pretty neat too.

[derTechniker]

I would really like to have a critique from a real designer on the size of the image in the design and about the text underneath it etc.

[iCyan]

Hm. Personally, I think it looks better without the text. An icon is a visual representation of it's program, in this case web application, and it seems to justly represent it without the text. That's just my opinion.

[derTechniker]

iCyan, on 22 May 2011 - 06:28 AM, said:

Hm. Personally, I think it looks better without the text. An icon is a visual representation of it's program, in this case web application, and it seems to justly represent it without the text. That's just my opinion.

Actually you are right there. Thanks.