Yesterday, we were alerted to a web site that made us feel flattered: See, we have been using a black-and-white version of Leech‘s icon as a generic icon for all downloads on our site for a while. In fact, we started doing that even before Leech was released.

It turns out there are other developers who want to help establish Leech as a synonym for downloading: GafMedia, developers of LinkLite, didn’t really ask us for permission before using our icon for their download link and copying our general download box layout, but nevertheless, we do like it.

So if you’re a Mac developer looking for a download icon, feel free to use ours. For additional bonus points, tell your users they should use Leech for downloading. And we’d prefer it if you could keep the green highlight color, instead of changing it to a graphite-y one like GafMedia did.

Here’s a screenshot — just in case GafMedia goes offline some day. Now if only we knew why that LinkLite page’s HTML source includes Coda‘s download dialog.

Update: GafMedia has since replaced the download icon on LinkLite’s product page and — most importantly — apologized for using Leech’s icon without asking for permission first. We appreciate that. Regardless, we’re still willing to let others use that icon. We’d just like to be notified first.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 7:58 pm by Peter Maurer, and is filed under Leech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.