Custom icon symbols for the UI

[unfa]

I thought that designing a set of custom icons for Zyn-Fusion would improve the readability and it'd make if easier to navigate the interface.

I think it could make some elements easier to recognize, and smaller in pixels too - improving readibility.

If this is agreed upon I think we should list the needed icons and agree on file format and naming, standard dimensions, maybe design a template file that should be used for all designs. And then organize graphic designers to create the symbols. Probably SVG would be the best option for a scalable interface.

I can see that icons could replace menu items in some places:

• Filter types (HP1, HP2 LP1, LP2 etc.)
• LFO waveforms (Sin, Sqr)
• Invert Polarity (the ⌀ symbol?)

This is a rather long-term project, not a killer feature probably but something that could add polish to Zyn-Fusion and improve the UX and usability as well.

What do you think?

[fundamental]

It sounds reasonable to add symbols to the interface, but for the moment I'd say it's a lower priority polish level addition.

[unfa]

Low priority - absolutely. I personally like making these kinds of designs and if we set a technical ground for a future art contribution - that'd be a nice start.

• Can Zyn-Fusion use pain Inkscape files to read the symbols from?
• Would one file with approprietly named layers for each symbol be fine? One can parse that from XML.
• I'm thinking about white silhouettes on transparent background. Possibly all in a square stroke frame with slightly rounded corners.
• I'd propose going with 64x64 pixels as a default size for the graphics. They will be usually scaled down in the GUI a lot but when using a grid of 4x4 pixels, that gives you a nice template to work with.

[fundamental]

https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg may be an appropriate library to load up such icons from .svg formats