Each icon atm can have upto 256 colours &, correct me if I'm wrong anybody, these can be independant for each icon can't they? That should be enough for any self respecting icon.
While this is partly true you are missing one fact. While each icon can have its own palette of 256 colors, an icon with a total of 256 colors in the palette will take up all of the available pens of the workbench. If you have two icons each with 256 colors in them both with different colors on the same workbench you will get a generalized dithered color for each of the icons. That means you cannot have a unique palette for each icon unless you want to take away the available pens from the workbench.
I reworked all of the icons that came with OS3.5 and OS3.9 to remove the god aweful shadows and corrected the palette while replacing some of the uglier default icons with ones that fit better into the OS. I usually have 218 pens available regardless of how many drawers I have open and the icons still look fairly decent. I started with 234 icons in my pack of icons and have expanded it to over 500 something at last count. The pack of icons uses the same color constraints as those found in the glowicons set. If you want them, you can find them online at my web site in the Amiga section. I need to update the archives though to add in the new collection I have.
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