I'm going to add that besides color, which seems to be the main focus here, that there are several other design issues I hope the solution we choose can offer us. That includes (mentioned http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Icon_standardisation at bottom of etherpad http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Icon_standardisation):
Looking great visually
- Icons align with text (on the baseline, or below, or above. It differs from icon to icons)
- Icons align vertically and horizontally with other icons
- Icon sizes are proportionate to each other
Easy to manipulate and push icon changes
- No extra workflows apart from changing SVG files
- No need to export different color files after making a slight improvement to icon
Easy to ship and communicate changes to other teams
- No need to dig emails
- Easy to track latest versions. No confusion
- No extra work for other teams to change icons in their own team applications when we make icon improvements
Consistency in application
- Easy for everyone to know which icon to use without duplicating different icons for same usage
Monte has shown me the script that he's created and I've got to say they are pretty impressive and it ticks off alot of these issues. I'll continue to work with him and the rest towards a solution that better streamline engineering and design workflows while giving us consistently great results.
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Just to note - it is only the iOS app that uses the font. The android one has always just used SVGs.
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