The RRZE Icon Set in the Press
Press releases
RRZE Tango Icon Set
The Regional Computer Centre Erlangen (RRZE)
first
published its icon set on 11.08.2008, providing icons specific to IT
topics in Tango style.
Read the press
release (~ 76 kB) for details (2008-08-11).
RRZE Icon Set
On 18.05.2010 - nearly a year after the intial publication -
the Icon Set has been developed to the "RRZE Icon Set". In addition to
the tango style icons, it contains several icons in other designs. The
total amount of icons has more than doubled.
Read the press
release (~ 76 kB) for details (2009-08-29).
Posters
Poster draft EUNIS 2009
It was planned to publish a poster on the RRZE Tango Icons
Set at EUNIS 2009. Due to heavy work load we decided not to present the
poster this year.
You can download the draft
(~ 2 MB).
Articles
Article in "BI" 80
The RRZE
publishes a user information magazine called "Benutzer Information -
BI" bi-annually.
In volume 80 (November 2008), it contained an article on the RRZE Icon
Set on page 12. Unfortunately in German only.
See the orginal pdf
(~ 12 MB) or the following translation:
RRZE published icon set for free use … and they
dance a tango. Without pictograms our virtual world would be impossible
to imagine. You need “icons” - that is how they are
called in the computer world - for data manager, interface, websites, a
nicer desktop, for personal scripts and many more uses. Catchy, highly
self explanatory and with a high re-identification rate, our icons
provide our customer to identify with the offered products. From a wide
range of icons at no charge, which are offered on the internet, one
icon set stands out: the extensive and very uniformly created
“Tango Icon Set” has been developed especially for
Open Source applications and is available for the use in various
topics. The RRZE has now created its own icon set and published it for
free use on the internet. The icon collection is based on the field of
IT-technology, especially for user administration. The collection
includes, among other things, icons for different user types, server
applications, status and classifications. The icons have been developed
within the Identity Management Project (IDMone) where they are used for
the user web front end. The collection will be continuously extended
and can be downloaded under http://tango.freedesktop.org/RRZETango- Set
in .png and .svg format. It can also be used for personal projects. The
Creative Commons Licence 3.0 has to be regarded. More details on the
licence can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-sa/3.0/
Experience reports
In the RRZE
"Projects
& Processes" Blog our designers are reporting on
their experiences made while working on the RRZE Icon Set with the
famous open source vector graphics software Inkscape.
Stay tuned for updates on http://www.blogs.fau.de/PP/topics/Inkscape/.