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Handheld Meter #2499

Open SeidiJr opened 6 years ago

SeidiJr commented 6 years ago

A manometer icon

GreenTurtwig commented 6 years ago

It's going to be difficult to display one as an icon. A gauge could potentially be used, but it may not get the point across depending on the use case.

SeidiJr commented 6 years ago

For medic sites, it won't be a good solution.

GreenTurtwig commented 6 years ago

Yeah, which I why I said it may not get the point across. If you could get an example that would be great. :+1:

MrGrigri commented 6 years ago

I feel this might be too niche for this icon pack. We cannot add every measurement device.

For reference, this is a manometer

james-jenner commented 6 years ago

The manometer comes in all styles and shapes, for example.

A hand held manometer is very similar to other devices that measure something. So you could just have a generic "hand held device for measuring x" icon. This would cover things like measuring decibels, frequency, temperature, light, voltage, current, resistance, etc. For example: https://www.jaycar.us/multifunction-environment-meter-with-dmm/p/QM1594.

This would be good because a gauge icon does not convey performing a measurement via a hand held device. To use it in such a context would be confusing imho.

Maybe something along the lines of the following (48px):

meter_x48

Maybe with rounded edges would be more appropriate, but I find any angled lines are always difficult to get pixel perfect at 48 and under.

meter2_x96

james-jenner commented 6 years ago

So something like the following?

meter3_x48

Looks a tad like an iPod to my mind, but maybe that's just cause I'm old ;-)

Oh and someone told me that it looks like a radio (speaker at base and gauge at the top for selecting the station, this is from someone a tad younger than me, but also old, so used to radios).

Hmm. Wasn't sure what you meant, so created a few:

meter4_x48 Filled with rounded screen

meter5_x48 Filled with lines to represent screen

meter6_x48 Filled with cutout screen

james-jenner commented 6 years ago

I like your approach, but not sure about the analogue indicator. Maybe remove the indicator and it will look good. The widths look a tad odd to my eyes, but maybe it's the square corners inside he rounded corners creating that effect. Need to get someone to look at it without context, as it still looks a tad like a transistor radio (I don't think there is any way to resolve that).

Did a new variant, very similar to yours. Main diff is the inside curve on the "lcd screen" part and I've simplified the dial. meter7_x24 meter7_x48 meter4_x96 meter7_open_x96

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mririgoyen commented 5 years ago

Removing the Contribution label because no source SVG files were provided.