Firefox browser UI artwork released
Designer Stephen Horlander and I are pleased to announce the availability of the toolbar and UI artwork seen in Firefox on Windows and Mac OS X.
Winstripe has been the default theme on the Windows version of Firefox for over two years. Man, how time flies. To explain the odd name, the Pinstripe project started in 2001 as an attempt to make the appearance of the Mozilla Suite fit in with the Mac OS X desktop. Icon designer Stephen Horlander joined the project and took the icon artwork to a new level of usability and polish. The Windows version of Pinstripe, dubbed “Winstripe”, became the default look on the Windows version of Firefox 0.9.
I’d like to see you take the artwork and remix it, mash it up with your own projects, use the artwork as the basis for your own Firefox themes. If you’re not familiar with Firefox themeing, start with the documentation at the Mozilla Dev Center. There’s an active community over at the Mozillazine Themes forum that’ll help you get up to speed. If creating a theme for Firefox looks daunting but you have a great idea, create a mockup of your idea and share it on the Themes forum. You might find people to help you turn your idea into a real theme. Enjoy!
Download Details
The artwork source zips contain Illustrator and Photoshop files. The majority of the icons were created by Stephen Horlander with contributions by Kevin Gerich. You can use, modify and distribute them under the Mozilla tri-license.
Pinstripe Browser Art (3.6MB)
Winstripe Browser Art (5.9MB)
Comments
Robert on 2006-07-11 07:28:21
Nice... but both links points to the same file, rename the pointed file to pinstripe* instead winstripe* to download the other until it is fixed.
marcoos on 2006-07-11 07:33:37
Both links lead to Winstripe...
Kevin on 2006-07-11 07:58:55
I fixed the links. Sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know.
Lim Chee Aun on 2006-07-11 09:28:04
Wow, this is great news. Thanks!
Sohil on 2006-07-11 10:00:30
Is this the right place to ask for a small peek into Bon Echo's Theme ? ;)
Life As It Comes » Blog Archive » (Win|Pin)stripe Icons Released on 2006-07-11 11:23:40
[...] Kevin Gerich and Stephen Horlander announce the release of the Winstripe and Pinstripe artwork from their work for Mozilla. [...]
David Naylor on 2006-07-11 13:10:41
Sohil: No real change for Bon Echo compared to 1.5.
Will Rogers on 2006-07-11 13:36:53
I was also curious about this post, since there is still a "visual refresh" planned before the Firefox 2.0 release. I guess this means the refresh won't take the form of theme changes?
Dao on 2006-07-11 14:08:09
David Naylor, I guess you mean Bon Echo Beta 1. It's not final and the visual refresh is yet to come.
Kevin on 2006-07-12 11:17:51
The visual refresh is off topic to this discussion, but the details are here
lukem on 2006-07-12 11:47:59
Finally! Let's hope this heralds a policy of releasing this sort of thing earlier! It'll make it a lot easier to make browser extensions that fit in visually with the rest of the browser.
Smokey Ardisson on 2006-07-13 01:11:26
Thanks for doing this (or making it happen, or whatever excatly...). Getting some appropriately-licensed Aqua/Aqua-like iconography out there will be a big help for smaller open-source projects (without budgets or resident designers) trying to better fit in visually on Mac OS X.
Firefox 1.x Classic themes available : pretty widgets on 2006-08-05 13:10:49
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Jens Meiert on 2006-09-05 15:45:16
Nice work. Firefox' (default) GUI will stay/get more appealing than IE's, while interestingly and at almost the same time, IE 7 becomes much more horrible to use (yeah, that clutter story...).