Whenever Google makes something too easy to use for development I get a feeling they are moving on from it - in this case Material.
And moving towards what?
Icons – Google Fonts
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#102I am sorry but I am going to be that guy. Iconography has regressed so much, it's all the same optically to me. Designers keep pushing minimalism and line-graphics to "reduce crud" like its some sort of a religion. We can't distinguish icons well. There is no effort put into making them more unique and recognizable. What a horrible cult.
Check out these glorious past remnants that we've forgotten about, they were so uhhh iconic : http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/
We love to see someone take Fam Fam Fam icons and create SVG versions of them. Iconography takes time and effort and enormous amount of patience, skill. You can't do this in a week in illustrator which is how it seems most icons are designed today. We've become lazy, want free stuff and no one is incentivized to spend 2 years creating amazing icons. The market for paid icons doesn't exist and we've done this to ourselves because we're addicted to free stuff.
Google services icons? All impossible to tell apart now. Apple macOS dock? They use to be different shapes and sizes, now they are all chicklet squares in macOS Big Sur. Apple fired the guy (Forstall) that was the brilliant mind behind Apple's approach to UI way back in 2013. Since then, Apple UI design sucks.
It is all getting worse, day by day, icon by icon. Iconography was a discipline people took seriously before 2010's. Windows 95, 98, XP icons were so amazing. They thought deeply about it. No one gives a shit anymore.
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#103I like that the SVGs are available under the Apache license. Because of that, I may actually get some use out of these. Does anyone know if Apple's SF Symbols are available under a similar license? I looked at Apple's web site, and it only mentions not using them in trademarks.
I don't think you're allowed to redistribute them. Apple considers them system-provided assets, so you can only use them on systems that provide them.
> Availability of individual symbols and features varies based on the version of the system you’re targeting. When you export a symbol introduced in SF Symbols 2 as an SVG template and bundle it with your app, you can use it in apps that target iOS 13, Mac Catalyst 13, tvOS 13, or watchOS 6
> All SF Symbols shall be considered to be system-provided images as defined in the Xcode and Apple SDKs license agreements and are subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Link to the sdk terms:
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#104I am sorry but I am going to be that guy. Iconography has regressed so much, it's all the same optically to me. Designers keep pushing minimalism and line-graphics to "reduce crud" like its some sort of a religion. We can't distinguish icons well. There is no effort put into making them more unique and recognizable. What a horrible cult. Check out these glorious past remnants that we've forgotten about, they were so…
Minimalism has a place — esp. with reduced screen real-estate. An icon I would display in my tool bar or on a button is different than an icon I would display on the desktop.
My beef with Google's icons is the seeming random decision to use rounded miters on some art, sharp miters on others. Very mish-mash.
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#105Regular reminder that icon fonts are bad for accessibility and are technically troublesome also in other ways: https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
To illustrate an issue this article describes, https://i.imgur.com/TzMXgUd.png is what the linked page looks like with a forced/limited font selection on Firefox.
If you block fonts, this is not a surprise.
Using a fresh in stall of Firefox, the linked page displays the icons correctly.
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#106Regular reminder that icon fonts are bad for accessibility and are technically troublesome also in other ways: https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
So is Javascript but that hasn't stopped anybody
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#107Regular reminder that icon fonts are bad for accessibility and are technically troublesome also in other ways: https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
I can't see how these would be bad for accessibility. The markup is a with a human readable word like "home" in it.
The content "trending_up" is almost useless, a voiceover will not interpret the underscore as a space.
There are no ARIA attributes that link any of the text to the buttons.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't see how these would be bad for accessibility. The markup is a with a human readable word like "home" in it.
The content "trending_up" is almost useless, a voiceover will not interpret the underscore as a space. There are no ARIA attributes that link any of the text to the buttons.
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#109Great to see Social distancing related icons in the list.
Or sad, depending on your point of view.
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#110I am sorry but I am going to be that guy. Iconography has regressed so much, it's all the same optically to me. Designers keep pushing minimalism and line-graphics to "reduce crud" like its some sort of a religion. We can't distinguish icons well. There is no effort put into making them more unique and recognizable. What a horrible cult. Check out these glorious past remnants that we've forgotten about, they were so…
Minimalism has a place — esp. with reduced screen real-estate. An icon I would display in my tool bar or on a button is different than an icon I would display on the desktop. My beef with Google's icons is the seeming random decision to use rounded miters on some art, sharp miters on others. Very mish-mash.
> reduced screen real-estate
Don't get me started on how much space we waste on any UI these days. Apart from HN UI, pretty much every website and desktop app has wastage of space.
I suspect, we stopped using borders - thanks to minimalism, that we need to use copious amounts of negative space to separate them. So, now paddings and margins are liberally applied everywhere.