To be perfectly honest the icons confused me. I only found "new repo" because tere aren't many bbuttons so it's quick to go over each. I much prefer text.
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#45Going against the grain, I guess. I like them, more or less. I particularly like the color-coding in the newsfeed.
However, I generally favor text options: if there was a no-icon option I'd probably choose that over icons.
My nits:
Advanced search looks like a settings icon, though.
Admin-tools doesn't seem to relate. (A 60s rocket ship? huh?)
Notification looks like an A with some sound at small resolution instead of the radio tower.
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So you force a behavior through your browser but when it doesn't work you blame the site? Ok...
Unicode code points do have names and standardized meanings, so it's not a good idea to abuse them. Hopefully the 'create' one uses f003, which apparently lies in PRIVATE_USE_AREA [0] .mini-icon.create::before { content: "\f003"; } [0] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f003/index.htm
All the icons lie in private use areas, specifically to avoid abuse.
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#47Good idea, but, sorry, don't like 'em. Neither the execution nor the conceptualization. The execution is too detailed. Details, regardless of how pixel-perfect they are, do blur upon quick glance, and the more details there are, the more it looks like a gray blob. The execution is also inconsistent - why the book is 3D, but the rest is flat? Except for the coffee mug that is neither. The conceptualization is off too.…
Agreed. I use 16px icons in my projects. Comparing these icons to the Glyphicons I'm using currently, the glyphicons are vastly more clear, especially at the smaller size.
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The alternative is having sites select fonts that hurt my eyes. I want a consistent experience across the web.
That's like wanting all cars on the road to be red :)
No. It's like expecting that when I adjust my seat to fit my leg length, the doors still work. I like the text to be readable without me leaning in and destroying my vision.
The fact that I'm forced to override font sizes for usability because sites don't respect my default settings is bad enough. When they break because of it, it becomes terrible design.
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#50I have Firefox configured to force the same font face across all sites (I love the consistency this gives me, and also some some sites are extremely abusive in their font selection) so this doesn't work for me. The "icons" show up as unknown Unicode characters. Not cool. This seems like the wrong approach - shouldn't characters have semantic meaning? It also doesn't seem accessible. Screen readers wouldn't know what…
So you force a behavior through your browser but when it doesn't work you blame the site? Ok...
So if, say, an older user forces all text to be large and it renders a site unreadable, you would blame the user?