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Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.

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Modify location icon #167

Open Poopooracoocoo opened 3 years ago

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

It's hard to tell that the location icon is a pin in Microsoft Edge (left), without having already seen the previous icon or another icon in another browser such as Google Chrome (right).

There is an artistic style in these icons, but it goes a bit too far here. And as I said in another issue, this artistic style is not Microsoft-y.

Using a pin for a location icon is a suspicious choice too, but that's on Google. They used to have a better icon...

The star icon for the favourite button also looks weird.

Well I just hope that this comes to the rest of Microsoft's websites and apps, including the Windows 10 shell.

jasoncuster commented 3 years ago

Oh whaaaat @Poopooracoocoo - what'chu mean this artistic style is not Microsoft-y. You're telling an artist at Microsoft this?! haha. I get what you're saying - there's definitely a middle ground that will help it from looking too bulky. We'll take a look in the next spring as time allows.

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

Off topic rant :P

Well the old icons were really embodied across Microsoft's visual design. Especially the Microsoft, Windows and Office logos. They perfectly complemented Windows 8 and to a lesser degree, Windows 10. It's also why rounded corners in Fluent's controls are a bit of an odd choice, and the recent decision to go with even more rounded corners even odder. I'm particularly salty about the new Office logo, which should have been redesigned properly.

Take a look at the Snapchat maps icon!

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

@jasoncuster uh when's spring for y'all? i'm not from america

jasoncuster commented 3 years ago

Sorry @Poopooracoocoo - Spring is coming up now, next couple of months - so as we find time we'll take a look at the location pin.

mdtauk commented 3 years ago

For me, in the UK I associate: March - May = Spring June - August = Summer September - November = Autumn/Fall December - February = Winter

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

@jasoncuster anything on this?

oh and it's a bit weird that this isn't used in Windows 11... It looks like a navigation app is running and not that my location is being tracked by an app.

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

@jasoncuster um

jasoncuster commented 3 years ago

Thanks for following up @Poopooracoocoo, I initially meant to type 'sprint' not 'spring' but that was way back in March so seasons have long changed...haha. We've been heads down for months now on emoji, and are just starting to catch up with icon backlog items. Hopefully you've had a chance to see all the lovely new icons in Win11!

With the quiet that comes with the holidays, I'm hoping we can spend some time reviewing icon styling - and the pin we'll take a look at.

Poopooracoocoo commented 3 years ago

jason, you said spring twice!! >.> and are those the same emoji that aren't 3d as was teased by microsoft? 🤪

yeah i've gotten to see the new icons.

last time i saw the location icon in the taskbar, it sucked and was the worst inspiration one could've taken from apple's icons, but since i've been on the release windows 11 builds i haven't seen it edit: i am using ExplorerPatcher now so maybe that's it?
battery icon woes are worse than usual.
the settings icon is different to the icon used for the app...

otherwise pretty nice lol, although i know office won't get any icon updates any soon to match. yay inconsistency...

Poopooracoocoo commented 2 years ago

With the quiet that comes with the holidays, I'm hoping we can spend some time reviewing icon styling - and the pin we'll take a look at.

@jasoncuster christmas is nearly here. it's the holidays.