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
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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
helpful in general. Their science and math category does seem not to
cover the specific concepts you mention, but some of the available
ones may be useful as inspiration.
Pau
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?
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Mathieu Stumpf
<psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
Hello,
Seeking for icons to reprent things like "axioms",
"theorems"
and so on for the french wikiversity, I found the "Project
Nuvola 2.0+"[1], despite it seems that there's currently not
much activity on it, I began to put new proposals on the page.
I think I red some messages on this list about this topic. Is
there some active projects I should look at?
By the way, if you have ideas to illustrate the following
concepts, let me know:
Axiom
Corollary
Definition
Example
Lemma
Principle
Proof
Property
Suggestion
Theorem
You may look at [2] to see my current proposals for some of
them.
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_Nuvola_2.0%
2B
[2]
https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Modèle:Emphase
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