Thread:Talk:MoodBar/Design/Emoticon colors/reply

I actually drew most of the decisions about the icons themselves from Get Satisfaction rather than Mozilla; you're absolutely correct that the "white line" versions (Mozilla's) don't look very appealing.

I'm going to disagree with the assertion that "Green means Unwell". Clearly, there is the "Mr. Yuk" problem, but there we have color combined with facial expressions (as we do here). Since green is typically associated with fertility and forwardness, and red is associated with stress, I don't think that the colors are poor choices.

Regarding Tango: I am of the opinion that we should radically deprecate our use of the icon set and focus on our own style. The Tango research is of some value, but the icons themselves leave. . . a great deal to be desired (they look right at home in Windows 2000). I'm not sure that their emoticons (the yellows) does anything "better" towards avoiding "caucasian-ness" - in fact, it probably works more towards that since they're "Simpsons Colored" (and in the Simpsons' world, "yellow" = "caucasian").