Windows died. Windows dieded a lot. And now we have spooky ghost icons haunting the desktop. If you’re goth, emo, or trying not to run down your laptop battery, these mostly-transparent icons will look quite smart on a dark background.

The first thing that jumps out at me is the inconsistent perspective. The hard drive is tilted down so we see more of its top than the folder (which, oddly, is facing away from us). We can see even more of the top of the recycle bin. Because the different icons have such radically different shapes, they’re presented at different angles. It’s fine for a tiny set like this, but in a larger set meant for complete desktop replacement, it would be jarring to see tens of icons facing different directions.

The second thing that jumps out at me is that Mexico is missing from the web icon (the globe). I’ll chalk up the turned-away folder and the floating paper to artistic license, but the globe should be accurate or not recognizably Earth, as is the case with the Firefox icon.

Minor gripes aside, I love the way the transparency is used on the hard drive, it’s the best of the five. Maybe it’s only that I get to feel like I have Superman’s x-ray vision.

The five icons are were created by Bombia Design and are free for personal use and redistribution on Windows or OS X.