tphinney
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1 year ago is material symbols extended version of material icons?
More or less, yes. It is a newer icon set under more active development, with more features. If you use the font version of it, the axes allow for all sorts of things.
for the existing icons in both of these is the naming same or different
Generally, the icon naming is identical! However:
- in a moderate number of cases, the design has changed. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is because some differences between the external version of the icons and the internal Google version have been dropped, so your app can look more like a Google app. Also, the default state of more icons is unfilled, so that the Fill axis can have an effect.
- There have been a few cases where a particular variant has been dropped. Most commonly this has been with no longer having separate filled and unfilled glyphs for the same base icon design. As the icon font provides both, the Fill axis is the preferred way to access such variation, rather than separate icons (which might also then have weird behavior with regards to the Fill axis).
I hope that helps!
We are changing from material icons to material symbols, is material symbols extended version of material icons? Also, for the existing icons in both of these is the naming same or different, do we have a list of different symbols in both of them, because for existing icons in material icons we need to know if icons or their names are changed to implement it accordingly in our projects.