After the hugely successful Hand & Arrow Cursors post that went viral a few weeks ago thanks to swissmiss and Michael Surtees, I decided to follow up with a iconographic exercise with the OS X ‘Mickey Mouse glove’ hand cursor.

There’s 9 12 versions of the hand:

1. standard OS X, roll-over-link hand
2. thumbs up
3. thumbs down
4. fist (or ‘grab’ state)
5. the finger (you know which one)
6. The ‘hang-ten’, or alternately – the I-hold-my-drink-like-a-nancy hand
7. the rock-n-roll hand
8. the spidey-web-spinning-hand (swappable with the rock-n-roll hand)
9. the talk-to-the-hand hand, or stop-right-there hand
10. A-OK
11. Fingers crossed
12. peace sign download them all here as a PSD.

UPDATE: I’ve added a fourth row of additional icons.

I’ve gotten a few requests already for the *shocker version. I’d like to keep this post PG-rated. I think there’s enough reference material to make your own versions. 🙂

I’ve done Google Image searches numerous times for hand and arrow cursor icons (and I haven’t ever saved them permanently to my ‘design_resources’ folder years ago when I should have).

Sometimes it’s easier to just do certain things yourself. So I’ve rolled my own icons.

You can download them here:

cursors_arrow_and_hand.psd.zip (all 3 icons on separate layers, PS CS3)

It’s not rocket science to make these icons, but if I’m helping just one frustrated web designer out there, this post was worth it.

*a little trivia for ya, or maybe not – OS X has a black arrow cursor, and Windows has a white arrow cursor. The hand, or link rollover icon above, is an OS X version. My friend and I refer to it as the ‘Mickey Mouse glove’. UPDATE 31.08.2009 – due to the popularity of this post over the last year, I’ve created a new set of hand cursor icon alternates you can grab here.