FYI: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html
757 glyphs. That's a lot of icons!
--Shahyar
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
FYI: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html
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Erik Moeller, 21/10/2014 06:38:
FYI: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html
Are those the icons they use themselves?
Nemo
Are those the icons they use themselves?
Yes, at least in the new versions of products. This is part of the material design http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html initiative (iconography section http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons), which they are adopting across all different devices (not only for Google products, but encouraging their use on apps targeting Android).
Pau
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Erik Moeller, 21/10/2014 06:38:
FYI: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html
Are those the icons they use themselves?
Nemo
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Pau Giner, 21/10/2014 08:54:
Are those the icons they use themselves?Yes, at least in the new versions of products. This is part of the material design http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html initiative (iconography section http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons), which they are adopting across all different devices (not only for Google products, but encouraging their use on apps targeting Android).
Interesting. It seems that Google has no interest in looking radically different from other websites, as someone felt necessary for Wikimedia projects vs. the rest of MediaWikis.
Nemo
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. It seems that Google has no interest in looking radically different from other websites, as someone felt necessary for Wikimedia projects vs. the rest of MediaWikis.
Keep in mind that material design is also intended to be a design standard used in Android by third party developers and OEMs. They want people to pick this up, not to have a lot of unique design standards, because the usefulness of Android is dependent on a consistent look and feel.
So Google distributing this is more akin to Wikimedia encouraging gadget and extension developers to use OOJS/OOUI, rather than encouraging third party installs of MediaWiki to do the same.