light-recessed-multiple

[GitHubGoody]

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Most of my house has recessed downlighting with multiple fixtures on each Lutron Caseta switch, so this icon is more accurate. I'll also use it for Home Assistant light groups.

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I tried the preview generator, but when I joined all the paths, it messed up the design.

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light-recessed-multiple.zip

[GitHubGoody]

@mririgoyen So...what does your thumbs down emoji mean? Do you have another idea?

[mririgoyen]

Sure, for a few reasons.

1. We already broke the guidelines by using perspective for this icon because there was no other way to easily discern the light type.
2. The contribution doesn't follow our typical -multiple pattern. After spending a few minutes in Illustrator, is doesn't really work. So, I understand your approach.
3. The contribution breaks more guidelines by dropping the width of the lines below 2dp. Bumping them up to 2dp makes it impossible to fit more than one in the artboard.

Realistically, to add something like this would cause us to have to break even more guidelines on an icon we already reluctantly added for breaking one of the biggest guidelines: do not show perspective.

I understand the idea, the need, and the want for it, especially with other light icons we have with -multiple variants. However, I am strongly against adding this.

[GitHubGoody]

Well, maybe the guidelines need to be more flexible. As you said, clearly there is a use case for this (and probably other grouped lights).

Anyways, here is how HomeKit does it...as one alternative:

[mririgoyen]

🤣 We don't create the guidelines, Google does.

If you want to try and recreate the HomeKit layout with our base icon, feel free. Remember that the strokes need to be 2dp.

[GitHubGoody]

Meh, I'll bark up another tree. I thought this whole project was open sourced and just loosely based on Google guidelines. Close this if you want.

[mririgoyen]

It is open source, but we take the Material guidelines seriously. Otherwise, what's the point of being "Material Design Icons"? It actually took us years after the initial request for a recessed light to add it because we were so reluctant to break guidelines.

I do understand your frustration, though. Sometimes the concepts we would like don't translate well into the style. I also would have a potential use for this kind of icon in my Home Assistant instance, but the lack of it doesn't really bother me. If you're looking for this for Home Assistant, there's a pack on HACS called custom-icons that would probably add your version in.

[GitHubGoody]

Yeah, I use ~3 other custom icon packages including that one. Since HA uses MDI as their default, I just wish THEY would automatically include ALL known icon sources in CORE so I didn't have to bother with maintaining them as custom "integrations." Ultimately, I couldn't care less where an icon I need comes from (or the guidelines it does/doesn't use), just that it's available, is recognizable, and fits my use case.

I will add, guidelines are meant to be bent and sometimes broken. ;-)