Stolen Buttons

#1

Post by Gecko4072 » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 9:23 AM UTC

Stolen Buttons
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Re: Stolen Buttons

#2

Post by wuhhh » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

Re: Stolen Buttons

#3

Post by Aardwolf » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC

wuhhh wrote: post #2

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

Re: Stolen Buttons

#4

Post by thomasfl » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#5

Post by matteason » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

wuhhh wrote: post #2

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

They're usually done with SVGs or CSS pseudoelements (a clip-path polygon or borders and rotation) rather than Unicode arrows

Re: Stolen Buttons

#6

Post by echelon » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

thomasfl wrote: post #4

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

It's called design and thank god everything isn't the same.

Gtk has some nice standard looking buttons for you. You know how those look, and I'm pretty sure you don't want that.

Think to when "UI experts" impose edicts from top down, such as "flat design" or "material". Are you really happy about that?

The fact that we're even looking in awe at this list is amazing. If everything were the same, this wouldn't even be interesting.

This is fun and we need more of it in the world.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#7

Post by hmokiguess » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

You should deduplicate and offer a cluster view with similarity distance

Re: Stolen Buttons

#8

Post by dandellion » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

thomasfl wrote: post #4

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

There are only like three or four that aren't just flat buttons with a different border radius and colour. If this had been done in the mid 2000s it would have hundreds of entirely different looking buttons. Glassy buttons, metal buttons, glowing buttons, pixel art buttons, cartoon buttons, etc.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#9

Post by Retr0id » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

Interesting choice to hotlink all the images! The side-effect is that some are dead now.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#10

Post by aghilmort » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

this is really great like collecting bottle caps except is buttons