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Re: kicad main icons - minor improvements

 

understood Chris, they do look all similar....

cheers
Fabrizio


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Fabrizio Tappero


On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> People recognize icons quickly by their silhouettes. This is already
> pretty hard with the existing KiCad icon set, and you're making it harder,
> by making so many icons into a "symbol on top of paper". I agree that the
> icons need work, but we've got to keep good UI design practices in mind
> while doing it.
>
> Can you do them in a way that makes them *more* individually distinctive?
>
> --
> Chris
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>
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> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 08:42:05PM +0200, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am working on some styling improvements of the main kicad icons. The two
>> lib component editor and lib footprint editor really need some work, I
>> think.
>>
>> This is some intermediate result:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>> Any feedback would be great.
>>
>> I think that the pen (that suggest the editing) is actually quite
>> redundant. I attach the svg file just in case somebody (Konstantin?) feels
>> like contributing.
>>
>> Regards
>> Fabrizio
>>
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