<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23.08.2010, at 23:25, Erik Blankinship wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>To lighten or darken, just use a plain stroke/fill color, and layer a translucent white or black shape on top of it. </div> <div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is a great idea!  Now, who here has the SVG skills to make an example of how that would work?  I will give it a shot and see how I do.</div></div> </blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Use the gradient tool in Inkscape (or your favorite SVG drawing program).</div><div><br></div><div>I once made a shiny Sugar icon using an overlaid white-to-transparent gradient, but had no real use for it, and can't find it anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>My technique for making an icon is drawing in plain red and yellow (to represent stroke and color) and after finishing, search and replace #ff0000 (red) and #ffff00 (yellow) with the entities.</div><div><br></div><div>Also see</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Making_Icons">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Making_Icons</a></div><div>(and maybe add your findings)</div><br><div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div> <br></body></html>