Icon request: Maximized

[ghost]

If you want to recreate the Windows caption buttons, you only have 3 out of 4 icons: Dismiss (close), Subtract (Minimize), Maximize, but you don't have the icon used when the window is maximized.

Alternate names: Restore, Window Restore

[LRANUL]

@jasoncuster, @spencer-nelson, @thewoodpecker With regard to this issue I have created a pull request #449, please review for merging thanks.

Icon for Maximize:

Filled

Regular

New Icon "Restore Down" be used for reverting Maximize effect:

Filled

Regular

[ghost]

It would've been nice if it had the same design, so that eventually these 4 icons can be officially used in Windows. This is mostly important for frameworks that replace the default caption buttons, like Electron and WinUI, or apps, like browsers.

[LRANUL]

@dansmor7 Thanks for bringing this up, issue comment has been updated to show all specific changes made, design patterns adhered in the update was taken from Fluent UI v1.1.169 opensource. Compared to your initial issue icon it seems to use a different version or type of icons which could be part of Microsoft's proprietary software that comes with Windows 11 and Office 365.

However, I've attached the Figma design file for MSFT designers and your use or references. FluentUI_Fimga_RestoreDown.zip

[spencer-nelson]

This looks like the Square, and Square Multiple Icons to me. Is there something I'm missing in the details?

[LRANUL]

@spencer-nelson What I understood from @dansmor7's request is that he looks for the captions control icons to be used in a fully customized window of his own going beyond the general customizations that the Windows SDK offers for the title bar, I have attached the 'Full' sub section of this Microsoft documentation page. I checked the application content styling icons you referenced they do show similarity to @dansmor7's request, but did you notice that the filled versions of these icons are different to standard the caption controls that are used, I think he is looking for the caption controls icons here. Title bar components sections of the same page

See below the Square, Square Multiple, Maximize icons on filled and regular states.

Regular States

Maximize

Square

Square Multiple

Filled States

Maximize

Square

Square Multiple

@spencer-nelson As I do not have access to internal engineering team I cannot be sure if the regular Square and Square Multiple icons are used for the Windows Title bar by default from the SDK, if it is I could close the #449 pull request to avoid having redundant copies of the same design to be on repository, if not please feel free to use the designs as required.

[LRANUL]

449 Pull request is closed.

[ghost]

Square Multiple does match what I was looking for. However, now I need to point out that Maximize is a duplicate with Square.

[spencer-nelson]

Maximize and Square aren't quite the same, in that the Filled version is handled differently, hence them being kept separate (for simplicity)

[ghost]

That means there should still be a restore icon, because the filled version would look different. I discovered recently that what I was looking for were the chrome icons in the segoe fluent font, but this icon should also exist here.

[spencer-nelson]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Please provide a screenshot or mock of the icon in its desired state so we can evaluate the best way to make sure it fits with the rest of the system icons.

[ghost]

I'm talking about this one. It currently exists in Segoe Fluent Icons as "ChromeRestore" and "ChromeRestoreContrast".

[mdtauk]

These icons are a little different as they are designed for a 10pt font size, and so are not matching the scale of the 16px or even 12px minimum sizes - so whether its for the FluentUI System Icons, or confined to the Segoe Fluent Icons that comes with Windows 11 - I guess is a discussion

[ghost]

The FluentUI 16px icons are actually 10px wide, and they match the Segoe Fluent ones.