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Sanscon

(Add / View Comments) (0)Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 01:58:03 am
(Posted Under: Web Development)
This afternoon I've been doing more work on Photobox, which I've been doing a fair bit of lately. While doing so, I decided it was time to replace some text links with icons, basically navigational ones and what not. Which prompted a search for some free icon sets.

Before long I came across Biticon, which seemed like the could work. But then I noticed Sanscon, which is basically the same icon set, but is colorizable via CSS.

The way this works is that all the GIF images are white icons on transparent backgrounds, and hence the background-color CSS property can be set accordingly.

In this way, colors of the icons can be adapted accordingly without changing the icon/image files at all. Very very cool.

It's possible that there are other icon sets that could fit my need a bit better, but this colorizable property makes Sanscon win out by far. In addition to how easy it makes theming, it also makes making mouse over color changes a piece of cake.

I like it a lot, it's a quite smart concept, and definately the right way to do things™.
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