We have given our monochromatic icons a small facelift to make them more elegant, lighter and consistent across the platform by incorporating our Suru language and font style.
The rationale behind the new designs are similar to that of our old guidelines, where we have kept to our recurring font patterns but made them more streamlined and legible with lighter strokes, negative spaces, and a minimal solid shape.
What we have changed:
- Reduced and standardized the strokes width from 6 or 8 pixels to 4.
- Less solid shapes and more outlines.
- The curvature radius of rectangles and squares has been slightly reduced (e.g message icon) to make them less ‘clumsy’.
- Few outlines are ‘broken’ (e.g bookmark, slideshow, contact, copy, paste, delete) for more personality. This negative space can also represent a shadow cast.
Less solid shapes
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Lighter strokes
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Negative spaces
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Font patternsÂ
Oblique lines are slightly curved
Arcs are not perfectly rounded but rather curved
Uppercase letters use right or sharp angles
Vertical lines have oblique upper terminations.
Nice soft curves
Action
Devices
Indicators
Weather
Nice, I like them!
Nice Icons… I like them
It would be great if design team rethink home button. For now it is shape (circle of friends) within shape (white circle) within shape (rectangle with rounded corners). This combination seems to be complicated, unnatural and out of place in comparison to the rest of icons in terms of style and sizes. Thanks for attention to details! PS. You made two very similar envelope icons. Was that intentional?
They’re getting better and better with every update, but I’m still waiting for them to hit the desktop.
It great to hear Ubuntu commenced the “Thin revolution” in UI. I’m damn sure that will be more legible and user-friendly. Congrats to the team!
Parabéns, ta show de bola.
Is a font??
Wow these icons are exciting and beautiful. I love the clean and soft design. The ‘broken’ idea is great too; it evokes a sense of playfulness to me. Do lines need to be strict and terminate where they begin? Clearly not.
I would have preferred something more substantial for the arrows, zoom, and check/cancel icons instead of the lines as they seem too simple and out of place to me, but I can understand the motivation to change style for navigational icons.
Really, it is an excellent job and I can’t wait to see these on a phone or desktop computer.
Nice icons. The sharpness really matters and i see it looks great now.
I love these!! The new minimum is cleanly designed icons. We were looking for some for the longest time, really wish we would have found these before.
Keep these coming, I think amazing simple icons like this are the future.
Thanks for the inspiration. :)
Jullian