/icons

What is this?

It's a collection of Windows .ico files.

Where'd you get them?

Various places. Some collections from the win_icons Twitter bot that Foone runs, manual labor, leaks...

What are they exactly?

  • 3000, fantazia, iconart, iconlib, and creative are collections from the bot.
    • fantazia/improved is me going through the fantazia set and adding transparency, because it appears their icon tool didn't support those.
  • I forget where iconpak comes from, but you'll notice they're much larger than the usual 32×32.
  • mac is hand-converted icons from MacOS 7.5 and the Appearance extension that makes it look more like 8, plus Word. All but Word's are named according to their resource number.
  • moricons is mostly the actual contents of the classic moricons.dll with the original names from a Windows source leak, plus a few unnamed icons from a later version.
  • pifmgr is like moricons in every way, except there are no extras.
  • other-win is literally "other Windows icons".
  • progman is much like moricons, named the same way
  • sierra is a collection of icon files that came with various Sierra On-Line adventure games.
  • tabworks is some dumb utility that Foone came across that's also in the bot's corpus.
  • vb is the collection of sample icons from Visual Basic 3.
  • wincim is from the CompuService Information Manager, version 1.4.
  • The other icons are...
    • A dumb idea I had when I spotted Program Manager on the bot and had Avengers on the brain.
    • A better take on Grover from Sesame Street because the one in iconlib pissed me off.
    • A better take on Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure because the one in 3000 freaked out Foone.
    • A better take on Leisure Suit Larry because the one in iconlib pissed me off.
    • A better take on Police Quest 2 because the one in 3000 pissed me off.
    • A better take on the Paintbrush color eraser because the one in fantazia pissed me off.
    • A better take on Duke Nukem because the one in creative pissed me off.
    • Kamen Rider #1, from a Game Boy game.
    • Kirby, from a Game Boy game and then hand-upscaled and colored.
    • A simple Pac-Man that I drew to get back into the swing of things when I restored my favorite icon editor.
    • A rather beautiful Sierra logo, one of the few if only full-color full-size icons in the set.
    • A Double Trouble portrait, from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, because they are an enby icon and now that's literal.
    • Lenna.
    • A Paintbrush icon that fits the Windows 95 icon design guidelines, from the Windows 95 User Interface Design Guidelines book.