Finally. It took me some time, because my law internship kind of broke the pace of things (wink wink nudge nudge), but I have finally completed reworking the glyph designs made by Dustin Schau for Mail.app and Preview.app in order to replace the “Aqua” ones that have existed for the past X years, and have compiled the whole thing into one package with automated installer & uninstaller and with manual installation instructions.
So, what exactly do these glyphs look like?
Here is the little mock-up Dustin made:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
As you can see, the design blend rather well with the “curved pill” design included in iTunesque. I can assure you they also work well with the “rectangle pill” design, which was also included in the previous stable release of iLeopard. However, I cannot guarantee that they won’t clash with the stock appearance of the Mail & Preview button pills.
Note: the glyphs are completely independent from any theme elements and are located within the applications in question. As such, you can use them with any theme, but you may have to re-apply such modifications if Mail and/or Preview are updated.
Here is a more (but not completely) comprehensive view of these glyphs, again using the iTunesque “curved pills” (click the images to see in full-size):
Mail glyphs:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Preview glyphs:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Now, the ZIP package to which I’ll link in a bit includes an automated installer, which offers you the possibility only to install the glyphs for one of the applications or to install them for both. I myself prefer to have these glyphs in Preview and not in Mail, for some reason, but Dustin told me he is “using them right now, and [he loves] them!” Basically, your choice (as is the general philosophy of iTunesque).
You will also be glad to know that these glyphs will also be an option included in iLeopard 2.1 (according to the creator), which brings many of the iTunesque options (even one I never released here) to iLeopard in order to make the possibilities almost endless. If you are an avid iLeopard fan, I suggest waiting until you get the complete thing.
So, without further ado, here is the link to the glyphs.
Download, and have fun customising your Mac even more.
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