https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153366
--- Comment #5 from BrendaEM <brendieel...@brenda-make.com> --- The icons are broken if most users cannot immediately identify what they are trying to convey. In the new icon set, about 1/2 of the space is wasted and blank. Indeed, many icons are checked for various resolutions, and while nothing is "perfect," these icons don't work when they are small because they waste too much space for a given resolution. Did you put the new icons against the old ones in the poll? Color should not be the only identifier for an icon, as 1:12 people are color-blind. Ref: https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/ I don't know if people will really be baffled... Do they look that different from the previous icons? When viewed on a black background, the lower right of the icon is indistinguishable from the background. They icon should look like what it's meant to convey. If it's a word processor, and people still write documents, then boring as may seem, the background should look like paper with text on it. The old writer icon worked much better. The math icon has a decent looking small block of characters that look like formulas, but why should they only occupy a portion of the icon. The look of the icon should not be more important than information or understand-ability. [For instance, Futura is one of my favorite fonts. I love the look of it, but it cannot be used for highway signs--because it's not as readable as Highway Gothic.] You were quick to discern that the Windows Calculator icon was only a standard calculator icon--because you could identify it. If it had a small bird on the lower half, I don't think you would be so quick. : ) Much of commercial graphics is not art; it's formulaic. Paragraph: use serif fonts. Legend: use san-serif fonts. There isn't enough room on an icon to lay down a cathartic work. People need to be able to look at it, and immediately know what it means. "The frustration of seeing new icons is really temporary but you forget it later on..." Well, it's later-on, and I still think that they do not work. to mind now. Some suggestions: Use most of the icon space for symbols and information. Pick one effect: clipped corner or shading. Make paper look like paper. Use solid symbols, not hollow ones. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.