Never-Lost Rainbow Cursors

Published on October 25th 2007 by Kelinmiriel.
Released under the Attribution Required (CC by) license.

3.3 out of 5 stars. (6 reviews) Log-in to add your review.

This is a fairly complete set of 25 cursors designed to be easy to spot on any background. They're all animated, in rainbow colors, most with outlines of black and white.

Standard Windows pointers are tiny and easy to lose on a 1600x1200 monitor, and standard "large" Windows pointers are ugly. This is the first time I've created mouse pointers. I included some of my earlier versions as alternates. "Alternates" are not quite as highly visible, except for the "busy" cursor.

When Microsoft decided 32x32 was a good maximum size for cursors, and made their standard cursors smaller than maximum, screen resolutions were lower, and they were big enough. Not any more.

I wanted to share this set online for others with high screen resolutions who have the same problem I did, and these may also be useful for people with vision problems. Also to thank RealWorld Graphics for providing this nice free editor -- I didn't want to buy one, when I only intended to make this one set.

Update 1: Added 04c (busy) with semi-transparent grey in empty parts of the hourglass instead of completely transparent.

Update 2: Added 03a (work background) with semi-transparent fill in hourglass, like 04c.

Thank you, RealWorld! Hope somebody finds these useful.

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Vlasta site administrator on October 25th 2007

There are indeed people with limited vision (I have received a couple of questions regarding cursors from one of them some time ago) and they will find the set very useful. Nice work.

Anonymous on July 24th 2008

holy geez i think im gonna have a seizure! 10/10!

luckydice registered user on July 26th 2008

5 out of 5 stars.

It is all amazing! Very good! I haven't seen anything like this!

luckydice registered user on July 26th 2008

Make some more, too!

Anonymous on March 8th 2009

luv the trippy one - square busy - 7th down
can u make it spin?
or if u can make a colorful down the drain version of that sweeeet

brianjayy registered user on May 18th 2009

5 out of 5 stars.

This is the best cursor I've ever seen...I'm always checking out new ones, but always leave Never-Lost Rainbow as my default cursor...you can't lose this baby on the screen... :-)
Great work...!!!

sixλxis forum moderator on February 9th 2010

3.5 out of 5 stars.

Good concept and origin of idea.

3.5/5

lenon registered user on February 9th 2011

1 out of 5 stars.

not good the cursor is without handwrating and without alternate select
is worst cursor |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-) |-)

Anonymous on July 25th 2011

@lenon just because it doesn't have TWO BARELY USED cursors doesn't mean it is the worst cursor, jerk

Anonymous on October 17th 2011

awesome! just what I needed.

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