{"id":123,"date":"2008-05-27T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.manytricks.net\/newblog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:27:07","slug":"the-archetypical-download-icon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"The archetypical download icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we were alerted to a web site that made us feel flattered: See, we have been using a black-and-white version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manytricks.com\/leech\">Leech<\/a>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out there are other developers who want to help establish Leech as a synonym for downloading: GafMedia, developers of <a href=\"http:\/\/linklite.gafmediastudio.com\/download.html\">LinkLite<\/a>, didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;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&#8217;d prefer it if you could keep the green highlight color, instead of changing it to a graphite-y one like GafMedia did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sandbox\/screenshots\/downloadlinklite.png\">Here&#8217;s a screenshot<\/a> \u2014 just in case GafMedia goes offline some day. Now if only we knew why that LinkLite page&#8217;s HTML source includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/coda\/\">Coda<\/a>&#8216;s download dialog.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: GafMedia has since replaced the download icon on LinkLite&#8217;s product page and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 apologized for using Leech&#8217;s icon without asking for permission first. We appreciate that. Regardless, we&#8217;re still willing to let others use that icon. We&#8217;d just like to be notified first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8216;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}