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Designing Icons and WordPress Admin Icons

From a talk at WordPress London in January 2013

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January 17, 2013
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Transcript

  1. Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag laurakalbag.com Designing WordPress Admin Icons

  2. Why use icons?

  3. “inform, translate and warn” — Jon Hicks The Icon Handbook

  4. We use them as…

  5. navigation Icons: Symbolicons

  6. shorthand Icons: Pixicon

  7. status Icons: Coquette

  8. emotion Icons: IconTexto

  9. instruction Icons: Gestures by Prekesh

  10. action Icons: Lino

  11. And we’re most likely to come across them as…

  12. favicons WordPress

  13. pictograms Icon: Symbolicons

  14. app icons Silverback app

  15. What makes icons great?

  16. None

  17. Sketch Beta

  18. consistency Icon: Pixicons

  19. Consistency • size • colour • style • lines •

    light • angle

  20. WordPress admin icons

  21. the dissection Icon: Symbolicons

  22. 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

  23. What do you need to make? Icon: Symbolicons

  24. 28px greyscale icon on a transparent background

  25. 28px colour icon on a transparent background

  26. 32px greyscale icon on a transparent background

  27. but then there’s blue… Icon: Symbolicons

  28. 28px blue tint icon on a transparent background

  29. 32px blue tint icon on a transparent background

  30. So altogether that makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px

    colour icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon

  31. but then there’s hi-DPI… Icon: Pixicons

  32. Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour

    icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon

  33. Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour

    icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon

  34. Which then makes… • 28px greyscale icon • 28px colour

    icon • 32px greyscale icon • 28px blue tint icon • 32px blue tint icon

  35. 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

  36. So let’s be sensible… Icon: Pixicons

  37. We want to make • 28px greyscale icon • 28px

    colour icon • 32px greyscale icon • 56px greyscale icon • 56px colour icon • 64px greyscale icon

  38. Icon: Symbolicons Live WordPress admin icon

  39. Icon: Pixicons Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag laurakalbag.com