-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matthias,
thanks for the overview, much appreciated! On 17/03/14 16:03, Mattias Põldaru wrote: > Microsoft Word uses an A with paintbrush or two A-s for Change styles: > http://www.ablebits.com/_img-blog/excel-styles/excel-ribbon-styles.png Seems to be one of the better ones, actually. It's a bit text-centric, but not as much as previous iterations were: https://lh3.ggpht.com/_Ck5gHAkZqC0/TGTbYWBuz_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/jj9vPoIomVM/s1600/office2003_beta2_03.gif (Word 2003 screenshot, the Styles icon is in the second toolbar from the top, first from the left [AA].) > Zoho uses a combination of both two A-s and a paintbrush: > https://www.zoho.com/docs/images/saved-styles.png Similar to Word's icon, but I am not sure if the second A improves on the design. > Adobe uses styled S (doesn't translate that well) > http://www.upload.ee/image/3948304/adobe-styles.png That was Apple's I-Work, I think. My opinion of it is that this icon is about as bad as it gets. (Not internationalised [the S very English-specific] and looks like the paste from clipboard icon.) > or a combination of "color icon" and A for character styles and pilgrim > ¶ for paragraph styles in InDesign: > http://www.upload.ee/image/3948317/indesign-styles.png Well, the styles part of the icon seem to be the two little squares at the bottom left. I am not sure what they are supposed to tell me. Maybe something like copying of attributes from a master [square with thick frame] to an instance of the element [overlaid square with thin frame])? However, I don't think they would work standing alone -- which we'd need since our UI is different from Adobe's > One interesting icon an A made of a ruler, a pencil and a paintbrush > (metaphor similar to Sifr icons): > http://www.upload.ee/image/3948361/an-icon.png Unfortunately, that is Apple's App Store/Application Folder icon. So, can't use that. > I would propose using stencil ruler as the metaphor. Stencil is used to > draw similar objects (this is what styles are about). A Sifr-style icon > could look something like this: > http://www.upload.ee/image/3948188/stencil.png In Tango, we now already have a stencil to toggle the Draw toolbar. It looks pretty similar, except that there are four instead of three shapes in it. My conclusion is that it might be good to either use an icon more similar to MSO's [recognisably so] or stick to what we have in Tango. Astron. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTJ/g5AAoJEJCfzwJOvloOETwH/0Pv4N3T/gmqC0M7Typ+lSqI 9bLAOXkRdb0g+RacIXenCiZPTpCGLhso2FfrbTQ4bBANgcoLJxga9FgABSQgVLoK 7gaEDeeSjWeZMq6QG2fX/CvefP22fVKc/Yw4BBmF+Y6mYXCZqXiHWOfzfH82T5Xc l5jQJcsAouhnm88Ti3jFqHnM2zPbvu71bJsul1KX/axVBRZB6sBpjIUJ4TKDill5 xyegksVuigekSmyflzLH+I+GrP7uxVjLXR+6B9wnDH7EJE/Kk0ykKDWEE85uvlnE LI4Z1TQlgODfqD4OCChgnESgga0gWAlx8yzzAi5/9aEHkAvcFm3MrOBZuD/c/dc= =51lE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted