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Official FlatWoken icon theme source repository.
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Add "libreoffice" icons #8

Closed alecive closed 10 years ago

alecive commented 10 years ago

The title is self-explicative.

ghost commented 10 years ago

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7RgiTFRU16RZHd0WFRmSzdsMUU/edit?usp=sharing

alecive commented 10 years ago

That one is too simple for me. Did you see the libreoffice-writer icon I have in the repo? I would like to follow a similar approach, i.e. not simply take the libreoffice outline and add a long shadow, but to completely change the design in order to better fit the guidelines for this iconset. I'm not sure if I'm that clear, if you want I can explain again :)

ghost commented 10 years ago

The writer icon is cool, but the libre office icon is just a blank paper, so when you leave out the lines on the writer icon you'd have the office icon, a bit too minimalistic maybe... This 'full icons' are just another style than the framed icons, so e.g dropbox and icons like that would have to be redone to match the full icon style, using only cutouts of the original icons. The shadow almost becomes obsolete in this style, like in the writer B icon. Still early enough to think about setting the whole theme to the full icon style and completely abandon the framed icons with shadows... especially because on android there are plenty of themes folowing this long shadow style already :D

alecive commented 10 years ago

You're not getting my point. I'm not saying that every icon should be shadowless, because it wouldn't make sense (it's a long shadow iconset, and I'm not changing that because I want to do a long shadow iconset, regardless of the "competition"). What I'm saying, is that some icons are good with the classical approach, ie the logo (or its outline) with a long shadow in a rounded square that acts as a frame.

But if you use straightforwardly this approach you end up in having poorly designed icons. There are so many possibilities, especially with the icon has two main parts. Take the hangouts icon: the first approach is depicted in hangouts_B, and it's just plain easy. On the other side, there's hangouts.svg: the icon in itself became the frame, whereas its content (i.e. the two white "quotes") became the main object of interest (i.e. the one that is shadowed). And this results in turning the idea around, and doing good design: remember that here we're talking about minimalism first, and so reducing the clutter and the complexity in order to reach the most efficient icon. Everyone will still recognize that as an hangouts icon, but that is not the hangouts icon any more, because the original logo has been shrunk to its essential value.

But, in order to do so, you cannot simply "zoom" the icon: you have to carefully select what icon can do that (because, for example, it needs to have more than one object in the logo -- the hangouts has them, but the dropbox does not), and to carefully design them because otherwise the result would be poor.

ghost commented 10 years ago

Really? That's absolutely awesome! :)

alecive commented 10 years ago

I think I'm messing things around (I'm a git newbie, so I still have to learn it :) ). What were you referring to when you were saying "Really? That's absolutely awesome! :)" ? To the fact that I'm planning to have this iconset both on Android and Linux?

alecive commented 10 years ago

I've added libreoffice icons. Do you like them?