Re: [Design] On wikimedia iconography

Mathieu, you can read more about the event that Vibha organized here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Iconathon_2013 and obviously more about the noun project at http://thenounproject.com/

Jared Zimmerman \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote: Thank for your clarifying answer. To my mind, simple icons are fine, and I agree with all your arguments. I came with nuvola only because this was an existing (sleeping) project, whom icons are already widely used in Wikimedia projects. Having an homogeneous icon set covering all subjects which may need one in Wikimedia projects is already a daunting task. So going with basic pictograms, like [1], seems a good idea to me. Moreover, once you have a good "black and white" form, it's easy to add colors, shadow, blurs, and glossy/shiny aspect to it. One may even come with a script to automate the process. Maybe not easily with a 100% out of the box satisfying result on all output, but it could clearly be a path to speed up the process. Still I'm pretty sure I've seen a "creating a public domain icon set for wikimedia" project previously this year, I fail to retrieve the references. I can create a new project on meta/commons, but if there is already one this would be wasting time and energy. Does anyone know of such an existing project? [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_information_symbols Le 2013-06-07 03:48, Jared Zimmerman a écrit : Mathieu, to second what Pau said I think that while we appreciate the effort here, multi-colored icons that are not necessarily from vector (vs raster) based sources really increases the overhead to maintain the visual system. Single color icons that are resolution independent that we can scale, modify, and display easily on desktop and mobile are much more useful. Depending on design direction, single color "metaphor" icons and easily change with the look of the site over time, and don't necessarily have a strong look & feel of their own, this gives the foundation and designer that help us out more leeway to explore different design options. We also would love to see greater consistency, if you look at the icon guidelines for Windows, OS X, Android, or iOS you will see cohesive systems for color, perspective, shape, as well as suggestions on how to deal with certain metaphors and concepts. Because many of the assets will be created by the community having guidelines like this is very helpful, and i'd love for my team to eventually create these. The icons you've shown as part of Nuvola are very creative and represent a pretty high barrier to entry for someone with basic image editing skills. If like Pau suggests we utilize the simple flat or subtly volumetric style found on the Noun Project the barrier to entry feel much lower to new users wanting to contribute. Not to say that creating simplicity is simple, but I think it is a good place to start. Thanks again for your contributions, check out the Noun Project and let us know your thoughts Jared JARED ZIMMERMAN \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman [4] On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote: Le jeudi 30 mai 2013 à 15:29 +0200, Pau Giner a écrit : The Noun project has icons for very diverse topics, so it may be category does seem not to some of the available Oh, sorry, I just realized that indeed someone answered, and in fact I even added the link in the external link section of the project. :P Now, the project list many "review needed", but don't document the review process, do you have any idea/suggestion? Stumpf like "axioms", "theorems" wikiversity, I found the "Project that there's currently not new proposals on the page. list about this topic. Is look at? illustrate the following current proposals for some of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_Nuvola_2.0% [1] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Modèle:Emphase [2] _______________________________________________ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design [3] _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design [3] Links: ------ [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_Nuvola_2.0% [2] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Mod%C3% A8le:Emphase [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design [4] https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design