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A POI Icon Set

http://labs.mapbox.com/maki-icons/

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refine tennis icons #427

Open natslaughter opened 6 years ago

natslaughter commented 6 years ago

purpose of this ticket is to take the existing tennis icons, which incorporate the human figure, and create new tennis icons with no human.

existing icons

screen shot 2018-04-17 at 5 23 44 pm

possible new icon concept

tennis ball with detail showing unique flap connection shape

Raquet

natslaughter commented 6 years ago

going with a tennis racquet for the symbol concept

next steps

[ ] icon design refinement
[ ] test icon on maps
[ ] geometric cleaning & svg file preparation

rasagy commented 6 years ago

Made minor tweaks to the mesh, and redid the handle based on @natslaughter’s design:

rasagy commented 6 years ago

Made the handle for 15px proportional to the 11px icon:

natslaughter commented 6 years ago

@rasagy this new 15 pixel icon proportion matches the 11 pixel proportion well. Next step here is to test these out on a map. 👍

natslaughter commented 6 years ago

@rasagy I noticed two kinks in the 11pixel icon that need smoothing.

rasagy commented 6 years ago

Thanks for catching these Nat! I realized that using the Shape Builder Tool to merge individual shapes leads to some extra anchors, some of which act funny.

I removed all the extra anchors in both the icons:

Will do this cleanup for other icons once they all pass the map-mock-test!