So I recently redid a full system icon pack based on/ using the open source material design icons from google. I wanted to have an icon pack that could completely adapt my whole system to any colour I wanted, and ended up having to make my own.
I shared this recently here.
I’m releasing it very soon, and would love some ideas or tips I should consider in the last moments before I submit the finished first release?
So far I know I need many more app icons, but other than that would love some ideas/ tips. Thanks.
(I’d love a list of app names I need to name the app icons to so they automatically apply.)
Could be useful to check scaling. How’s it look really small to really large. Might help inform some of the line work decisions. Looks nice with all the colors!
Also, the way you present the bottom row with a blended gradient, might be its own nice set, preserving the blending so each icon has a bit of multiple colors to it.
The bottom row is meant to show that the theme changes to the used accent colour. Should I make that more clear?
No no, I understand what it shows. I’m suggesting the blended version looks nice and could be an extra option.
Great you understood. I want it to be as universal as possible and part of that is no English text explaining stuff. Anyway, I’ve thought of that too. It would be a bit of work to make sure it looks good, but definitely an option in the future.
They are all vectors so the scaling is good. I don’t have larger variants for folders and mimetypes but that’s planned in the future.
Yes mathematically it scales perfectly. Except in the end it still gets rasterized. Because you have carrying line thicknesses in the icons themselves, it’s important to check how the icons look at common scales / sizes on a regular monitor resolutions such as 1080p, 1440p, and 4k.
This is very intriguing. I’ve been testing it and it seems good, but maybe I’m not looking for the right thing. Care to explain what you mean?
Looking good.
One small idea to create chaos:
Is it possible to randomize the color for each icon? So you would have different colors for each icon
With the icons I’m releasing an “unfilled set”. And I have tediously made sure all my icons are single layer proper svg files without any styles or unnecessary metadata and no strokes. That way it’s super easy to run batch commands on the whole set. Say you wanna replace a colour, do a find and replace and command, it’s that’s simple. So for chaos you could just make a script to keep changing the fill as it goes through every icon.
Looks really nice!
Like astrsk, I feel like the stroke might be slightly too thick at some sizes. I would make it approximately 20% thinner. (Though depending on how these are constructed that might be too much work. If so, it’s not bad as is)
I plan to add an extra size for larger scaling that will have thinner lines.
