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Laura Kalbag
January 17, 2013
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Designing Icons and WordPress Admin Icons
From a talk at WordPress London in January 2013
Laura Kalbag
January 17, 2013
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Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag laurakalbag.com Designing WordPress Admin Icons
Why use icons?
“inform, translate and warn” — Jon Hicks The Icon Handbook
We use them as…
navigation Icons: Symbolicons
shorthand Icons: Pixicon
status Icons: Coquette
emotion Icons: IconTexto
instruction Icons: Gestures by Prekesh
action Icons: Lino
And we’re most likely to come across them as…
favicons WordPress
pictograms Icon: Symbolicons
app icons Silverback app
What makes icons great?
None
Sketch Beta
consistency Icon: Pixicons
Consistency • size • colour • style • lines •
light • angle
WordPress admin icons
the dissection Icon: Symbolicons
mostly one-colour slightly muted colours not angled, face-on flat solid
1px outlines minimal detail subtle gradient light source from the top multiple objects overlap
What do you need to make? Icon: Symbolicons
28px greyscale icon on a transparent background
28px colour icon on a transparent background
32px greyscale icon on a transparent background
but then there’s blue… Icon: Symbolicons
28px blue tint icon on a transparent background
32px blue tint icon on a transparent background
So altogether that makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px
colour icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon
but then there’s hi-DPI… Icon: Pixicons
Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour
icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon
Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour
icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon
Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour
icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon
Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour
icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon • 56px greyscale icon • 56px colour icon • 64px greyscale icon • 56px blue tint icon • 64px blue tint icon
So let’s be sensible… Icon: Pixicons
We want to make • 28px greyscale icon • 28px
colour icon • 32px greyscale icon • 56px greyscale icon • 56px colour icon • 64px greyscale icon
Icon: Symbolicons Live WordPress admin icon
Icon: Pixicons Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag laurakalbag.com