Questions tagged [icon]
Questions about icons; small graphic images or symbols that conveys meaning through visual representation.
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Material Design Icons — keyline shapes for smaller icons
Material design provides the following keyline shapes for icons:
https://material.io/design/iconography/#grid-keyline-shapes
https://is.gd/KpRYrB
But these come for rather big icons (192×192px).
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Icons as intersection of basic shapes — strive for it?
Does it make sense to try to produce shapes as a combination / intersection of other basic shapes wherever possible?
(eg. Constructing a basic shield from primary shapes).
Will that assure best ...
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When using a Pencil icon is it necessary to add “edit” next to the icon? [migrated]
I am working with a new designer who feels strongly that when you use a pencil icon signifying edit you must also add the text "Edit" next to the icon. This is not consistent with how our other pages ...
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Batch convert fill and stroke colour of a set of icons
I have a set of icons which are black and white. I want to try and make it shades of blue. Example is given below
I have set stroke and fill colours to it manually using Inkscape. Will it be possible ...
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Extract icons out of an SVG sprite
I have an SVG image sprite with a lot of icons inside it
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/master/src/symbolic/gnome-stencils.svg
Is there any method available or a website ...
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Add a special character o glyph made of three dots for quick insertion InDesign
I am working on a long text with InDesign cs6 and I need to be able to quickly write/insert a special charter that looks likes this three dots in the image
(They are three dots and the middle on is ...
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Adjust EPS icons to same size and weight?
I have a pack of icons in .eps format, but some of them appear to be different in the size (guess have different purposes for website). Also, when I try to resize them in Illustrator, the weight of ...
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What is a good icon to represent a toll?
I'm looking for an icon to represent a toll.
I found this icon on Material Design under "toll", I'm actually curious as the only thing I see is a circle and another part of a circle.
I'm thinking ...
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Save and Close Icon
I'm building an interface for an admin page. The admin clicks a button to choose an icon to save and close the data table instead of autosave.
I have always been stumped as to which icon is best ...
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How to covert and save the size of a 512x512 sticker image into 100 KB in adobe Photoshop?
When I am going to save the 512x512 sticker icon in photoshop. It shows the 215 KB size of an image which is more than 100 KB. I want the 512x512px size png icon in 100 KB. How is it possible?
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Are there any universally accepted icons for Gold, Silver, and Bronze?
This is an additional question to one which I had asked on UXSE for making the Badges inclusive by providing unique icons for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Badges.
Are there any universally accepted ...
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How do I differentiate between vegan/vegetarian, wheat/gluten or dairy/lactose icons?
I'm a newbie in the UI world, and recently I have been asked to create nutrition icons that are clear and can be easily identified by the users.
I have been having some problems trying to ...
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What is the most intuitive and obvious copy link icon?
I'm building a blog interface and I need a button to represent my copy URL link action in my blog post pages. The button will be side by side with other social media share icons. I'm trying to decide ...
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Icons or symbols for asymmetric (public-key) cryptography
I need some graphical representation of the elements of asymmetric (public-key) cryptography. I have not been able to find any established convention in this area, and struggle to find good candidates ...
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What is a good icon / graphical way to represent 'closed', 'terminated', 'ended', 'expired'… etc?
I've seen some questions here bump into similar 'time' related icon problems (since 'termination' is sort of a time related concept, similar to 'the past')
It doesn't have to be an icon either, since ...
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Icon to represent component [closed]
I am building a drag and drop web builder.
One of the actions requires that the user select a "component" from the sidebar and drag it across the page. Once they drop it, the component fills the page....
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Importing icons into Android Studio [closed]
I made some icons using Krita. How do I get those icons into Android Studio?
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Alphanumeric Icons - cannot find a collection and cannot draw them properly
I don't know what else to call them. I googled for simple icon collections
that combine a letter and number like G5, S3, or Z2. Maybe my search
results produced nothing because they are listed under ...
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Best practice: keep icons as strokes or outline?
I am currently working on generating the icon assets for the company I work for. I am using Sketch, and am creating a large library of the icons. They are all Line icons (the style) and basically ...
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How to resize icons without losing quality?
I have icons (in png format) with a resolution of about 500x500 pixels and want to use them in app development around size 30x30 pixels. But when I resize them, they become very aliased.
How can I ...
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Inkscape, align objects top has space between objects
I'm trying to align object in inkscape to make a heart shape but when alligning there is a very small space between the two objects. How can I get rid of that space ?
As you can see in the picture, ...
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Alphabetical sort order icon meaning
I noticed that icon repositories like Fontawesome have a lot of different icons for showing sort orders. The more variations I came across, the more confused I got.
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Status icon for verification, claimed and both combined
I'm currently working on a web app, which has different kinds of status. It can either be nothing, claimed, verified or claimed and verified.
This is the current version for status "verified". I'm ...
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Business Leads Icon
I'm building an interface for an admin page. The admin clicks a button to choose an icon to see how many business leads received.
I have always been stumped as to which icon is best suited for use on ...
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How do I let the user know a menu will appear on touch slide?
If I have an hamburguer icon on mobile devices, how do I let the user know a menu will appear on touch slide instead of clicking the icon?
Is there any visual trick both for the touch slide left and ...
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Make complex form appear “disappeared” using dashes
I'm currently new into Adobe Illustrator and I'm having quite a bit a stroke when it comes to icon design.
I'm mostly using icons from flaticon, in this case, I'm using an icon of a can, a package ...
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Does optical correction give a more aesthetic look to the SBI logo?
The design in question here is an official variation of the SBI logo:
Now, I've always felt that the main circular icon feels a bit smaller, and must be corrected by enlarging it a bit to make it ...
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I want to know the name of technique used to create the icon
I have created app named i am poor for learning purpose
I was trying to create icon the background colour of icon i chosen same as whatsapp icon colour but now I'm seeing difference WhatsApp had ...
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Illustrator create border like effect [duplicate]
I am using Illustrator. I got this:
and I want to create this effect:
At the moment I am using a white border to create this effect but I want to remove the part from the outer lines. I know that ...
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Opinion on the icon of the logo please :)
I am rebranding my personal work. I used to work with the name of Miss Graphics but was suggested that its too generic. I have now come up with a new concept. I would like to show Dolphin to represent ...
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How should I make my icons as a part of a design system?
I'm creating a design system for a user interface design project and I want to make icons accessible for designers and developers. Icons can have different styles like:
Different strokes (1px and 2px)...
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Critique my logo please
I asked for a critique on my personal logo before and got an amazing response from you guys. thank you! So i abandoned that idea and now have created this new logo.
Basically, I am a graphic ...
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Standard icon for SMS
I've been working on a website where there will be two buttons: "Call us" and an "SMS us". The user might be on mobile or on a desktop browser, and I'd like to make it clear that the SMS icon means "...
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Blurry Image when exported to 32×32
I am trying to create a favicon for our website. I created something at 7000×7000 and then reduced the size to 32×32.
(I may be using the wrong terminology here. The website we use, says the maximal ...
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Pictograms to show supply chains
I am having a hard time coming up with the right pictograms.
I am making a video game that features simulated industries, like mines, smelters, sawmills, bakeries, and so on.
And I need to annotate ...
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Are both designs (see details) are correct to represent “not allowed” / ban?
I need this icon to design something (in typography).
Now, I just noticed it today... at some places this icon has +45 angle of the diameter and at some places it has -45, as show in the image:
Is ...
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A question about rounding corners in this situation
I have a rectangle cut from in the middle diagonally. The cutting stroke is rounded. So the rectangle edges should also be rounded I felt. The question here is, do I round the top-left and bottom-...
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How export all icons from a Sketch file for iOS
I have a sketch prototyp file and want to export all icons with different size for iOS/Xcode. How should I do?
I only know how to export an icon/image with different size, but no idea what about for ...
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use of graphics stock icon (spoon,fork,skull head) for logo [duplicate]
I am a new graphics designer I want to use skull head, spoon icon, fork, etc in my logo from free stock but I don't know how to avoid copyright issue
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What stroke width Instagram is using for its icons and how to get same results?
I'm designing on Illustrator icons for a new app, when I use 1px stroke and preview on mobile they look very thin and when I use 2px stroke they look a bit bold while Instagram icons look and feel ...
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How can I make a full coloured icon set work as a font?
I am in the process of designing a set of icons for my client to offer a full-colour alternative, whereby the gradient has an outline colour, with a fill gradient colour. For example here - https://...
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How do I export a crisp icon from Illustrator?
I have created an icon in Illustrator that I would like to use as an emoji on Discord and Twitch. I exported it as a 2031 × 2002 image and uploaded it to Discord.
When I use the emote on Discord (...
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What can symbolize “mold-breaker”?
I've searched online for a very long while now but there seems to be no iconography or symbolism for mold-breaker. Internet only knows the Pokemon ability of the same name or mold, the disease.
It ...
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Can I use a Freepik icon as my commercial mobile app icon?
I know Freepik icons may not be used as logo types, but logos and icons are two different things. I have a mobile app that I intend to sell, can I use an icon from Freepik and use it as the app icon?
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Create a Price Tag Icon with Rounded Corners
I am learning to create icons in Photoshop, but I'm not sure how to tackle creating this icon.
Is it possible using only Photoshop?
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How to get smoother shape edges?
I am currently working on some custom icons. I stumbled upon an article which addresses issues of optical effects and illusions of shapes. What I noticed is that the shapes shown in images provided in ...
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Free image for the “grab” cursor for IE11
I am looking at this question and its answers, and it seems the only legitimate way to implement a grab cursor in IE11 is to use an image like this:
cursor: url(images/grab.cur);
Browsing the ...
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Linguistic Terms Icons?
Does anyone know of any linguistic terms icons (icons for "noun", "stem", "grammatical number", various grammatical cases), or preferably a package of them?
I know of the Noun Project and there are ...
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Distorted SVG icon when exporting from Sketch
I am getting a strange result when exporting an SVG icon from Sketch.
I am trying to export this mail icon that is made up of two masked triangles and an outer rectangle (all using an outside border):...
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How do you represent the concept “rate per hour” visually or as an icon?
I am trying to think of a good visual representation for "rate per hour" as in "this is the rate per hour that I am being charged at for this time" or "I am charging someone else at this rate per hour....
