Why folders yellow

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Folder is one of the most famous metaphors of screens. This is a very powerful and strong character. In a relatively short period of time he managed to Eclipse the term was intended to designate. The concept of "directory" or "directory" has sunk into Oblivion. Although "folder" when there was only a metaphor to refer to a graphical shell.

In the process of collecting various facts about this icon, overthrown in single file. Thought it would be useful to bring in more less readable type and share.



the Directory (from the Latin. directorium — route) in a General sense refers to a structure that contains a set of certain information. This can be a list or directory.


His appearance is obliged to the idea to equip the GUI of the legendary workstation the Xerox Star (Xerox 8010) metaphors that are understandable to the ordinary office clerk. Ideas were gathered from standard office equipment then offices. The first commercial embodiment in the mass market was the interface Apple Lisa.

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Basic folder appearanceA folder is drawn as a white rectangle (filled in by the application) with a thin (one pixel) black border. Every folder has a tab, which looks like a tab on a standard manilla folder. The tab is always above the upper left corner of the folder. It is called the title tab. The rectangular portion of the folder that holds the folder''s contents is called the body of the folder “the Lisa user interface standards” (1980)

the Paper folder
The prototype for the metaphor was the so-called "Manila folder" (manila folder). As far as I know in the Russian language this term is missing (though sometimes glimpsed in the literature, which, however, may be a mistake). It would be correct to say just "paper folder" or "folder".
Structurally, it is a folded sheet of paper inside which you can attach or filing documents.


the Folder=fold (bend, collect)+er (suffix for the formation of the noun)

This type of folder has not been known on the territory of the former USSR, so the folder icon in part was a simulacrum, i.e. it does not have a subject part, and only a property. Systems Win 9x object seemed to be simply a yellow pryamougolnykh with the protrusion, i.e. the abstract thing.

Bumaga. Why folders yellow.

American type folders are made of durable paper called "Manila". It is composed of "Manila hemp," the fiber extracted from the leaves of the textile banana or Abaca (a plant native to the Philippines). Fiber is very rigid and have uniform thickness, easily painted. Although, as a rule, Manila paper not treated with dyes. It retains the natural fiber color: yellowish-beige. That's why folder icons Windows and some other systems — yellow or beige.



In addition to the paper of Manila hemp, used for the production of marine ropes. For this reason, the second name of Manila paper — "cable car".

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From Manila fiber tea bags are manufactured. Technology developed by American engineer Fay Osborne. During the second world war, in the midst of Osborn's studies, Manila hemp has become a strategic raw material for the fleet. The engineer had to come up with a method of producing Manila fiber tea bags... the old rope.

Material for making folders is smooth enough, in the paper no coarse particles, so as not to scratch documents. Places without and chemical active components are able to react with photo paper and damage the pictures stored in folders. There is a standard that requires that folder, once in the water, not stained contents in any extraneous color.
the "Leopard print" the folder icon from MacOs, well visible paper texture is heterogeneous.



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In Microsoft Windows Vista/7 folders are deployed 90 degrees. This is done to give a certain freshness to the icons. But also symbolizes a broader interpretation of the concept of "folder" in the system. In particular, it is no longer associated only with the physical directory on disk. From the deployed folder has its own advantage: it is easier to compose the image documents.

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