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Symbolic Icons

GNOME 3 introduced a new style of icons we call symbolic. Last year, Meg Ford joined the effort we kicked off with Lapo and did a great job extending the theme coverage, without us having any style guidelines in place yet. This year, we’ll have another Woman Outreach program participant joining the effort, so I’ve edited a little video introduction on how we design these icons along with a little overview of all the icon styles currently in place.

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5 Responses to “Symbolic Icons”

  1. Dylan McCall Says:
    May 16th, 2012 at 5:06 am

    Cool! Nice video. I’m really excited about this: using a distinct style for different kinds of icons is a fantastic step in the right direction :)

    I have one question: why are there app icons in gnome-stencils.svg? I thought this style was for category, status and action icons.

  2. Marcus Lundblad Says:
    May 16th, 2012 at 11:11 am

    Very interesting to watch these videos!

  3. Jakub Steiner Says:
    May 16th, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Dylan: we actually expanded the scope of what symbolic icons are used for. Now they are also a base for creating the accessible sets (high contrast, high contrast inverse…)

  4. Fitoschido Says:
    May 17th, 2012 at 9:10 am

    Thank you for sharing this instructive video! Symbolic icons are one of the things I like in Gnome the most.

  5. Cimi Says:
    May 18th, 2012 at 1:39 am

    Nice video Jakub!!!

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