Re: [libreoffice-design] Flat/Symbolic Icons Update

> Having just one other color by icon make :
>
> - LibreOffice being more differentiated from the concurrency (Gdocs etc)
> - Staying clean (less colors by icons, more clean, personal filling 
> that seems confirmed by the massive use of monochrome designs (Unity 
> top bar (indicators), MAC OS X, Gdocs, Windows 8 etc etc)
> - Help to understand what an icon do.

Having unique design guidelines… Makes sense to me. 

Best regards,
Emir


21 Şub 2013 tarihinde 00:25 saatinde, Kévin PEIGNOT şunları yazdı:

> Hy every one
>
> I tried to color code icons, according to this old Mirek proposal : 
> http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/color-codes/ , and using 
> black when the icon has a too general purpose. The result is here (it's 
> based on Issa mock-Up). Personnaly, I'm not any more convinced that 
> having color coded icons would be such a big step forward. But I would 
> to share something I though while doing this.
>
> No mater if icons are not color coded, having bicolor icons 
> (exceptionnaly three MAYBE) could really be great, thinking this way :
> - each icon should be based on grey,
> - each icons should have a second color as soon as it can helps 
> understanding the meaning of an icon. Example : Bold icon do not need 
> to be bicolor, but landscape/portrait page yes.
> - The color should be applicated to the most important, significative 
> part of an icon. In the case of Portrait/Landscape mode, the new 
> orientation would be colored, the old one staying grey.
>
> Having just one other color by icon make :
>
> - LibreOffice being more differentiated from the concurrency (Gdocs etc)
> - Staying clean (less colors by icons, more clean, personal filling 
> that seems confirmed by the massive use of monochrome designs (Unity 
> top bar (indicators), MAC OS X, Gdocs, Windows 8 etc etc)
> - Help to understand what an icon do.
>
> What do you think about these "design rules"
>
> Kévin
>
> Le mer. 20 févr. 2013 22:14:33 CET, Issa Alkurtass a écrit :
> > Hello Kevin,
> >
> > Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on February 21, 2013 12:02 AM:
> > > I'm relaly not a good icon designer (really bad to be honest), but with
> > > the svg of the icons I will try to color code them too, because I really
> > > think this can be a great user friendl (and pretty too) icon set
> >
> > Oh sorry, here is the SVG https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Symbolic-test.svg
> >
> > _______________________
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> > Issa Alkurtass
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> >
>
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