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

Sure we need ones, at least for designing the icons. I think we all agrea
on this. We should descuss what the guidelines should be for the flat icon
set. I think what I proposed earlier would be a good start, but we need to
discuss it.


2013/2/20 Emir Yâsin SARI <bitigchi@me.com>

> > 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
> > > _______________________
> > > Regards,
> > > Issa Alkurtass
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