Iconography Genera

ITT is a dumping ground for creating icons, the concepts they represent, and how they could be improved.

Created this topic to have a place to put the in-progress site icons as they're being created.

As I'm making this, I'm taking into account the respective sizes of all the icons and calculating the speed involved with loading them. I am noticing that while a grand majority of icons will take only a few milliseconds to open, that would add up quickly with the method I got going on. To make things worse, I have found out through research that the way I've been loading these icons never caches the file(s) for future reference, and it would take many, many requests per page load (even on refresh) to retrieve everything if I don't fix it with this upcoming patch. I'm looking into an icon sprite sheet solution to ensure that it all loads once, and is immediately cached for a smoother experience.

TeeThingus_Bonemantics said:

ITT is a dumping ground for creating icons, the concepts they represent, and how they could be improved.

Created this topic to have a place to put the in-progress site icons as they're being created.

As I'm making this, I'm taking into account the respective sizes of all the icons and calculating the speed involved with loading them. I am noticing that while a grand majority of icons will take only a few milliseconds to open, that would add up quickly with the method I got going on. To make things worse, I have found out through research that the way I've been loading these icons never caches the file(s) for future reference, and it would take many, many requests per page load (even on refresh) to retrieve everything if I don't fix it with this upcoming patch. I'm looking into an icon sprite sheet solution to ensure that it all loads once, and is immediately cached for a smoother experience.

idk what the fuck is going on with the general tag
artist tag needs a change
moderator also needs a change
copyright tag would benefit from a colour change
rest are good

all my opinions

Cannibvll said:

idk what the fuck is going on with the general tag
artist tag needs a change
moderator also needs a change
copyright tag would benefit from a colour change
rest are good

all my opinions

What needs to be changed about the Moderator?

Some changes to the Artist Tag and General Tag icons to better reflect what they encompass.

Just finished the base for the status rune icon set. I'm thinking I can screw with the internal gradients of the icon to match the palette present in the polling's progress bar depending on the style. I've been researching the symbol sheet method, and from what I can tell, I can specify the base and the respective status icon separately to help save space.

I haven't tested and tweaked the specialty message SVGs as of yet, but I figured out how to convert everything to a symbol sheet. I'm going to separate the message designs and the base site icons into two separate sheets and see how that plays out. I also fixed some problems regarding clipping on the site logo (sometimes clipping would break on a certain portion of the outer rim, causing the rest of the polygon to bleed through) and certain visuals there will be full quality when the sprite sheets are implemented. Here are a variety of finished icons I've gotten done so far, and there's plenty more I still need to do.

The meat around the eyes will be color-corrected to the default button icon's palette when the patch goes live.

These are great, You have a distinct art style on these icons keep it up

TeeThingus_Bonemantics said:

ITT is a dumping ground for creating icons, the concepts they represent, and how they could be improved.

Created this topic to have a place to put the in-progress site icons as they're being created.

As I'm making this, I'm taking into account the respective sizes of all the icons and calculating the speed involved with loading them. I am noticing that while a grand majority of icons will take only a few milliseconds to open, that would add up quickly with the method I got going on. To make things worse, I have found out through research that the way I've been loading these icons never caches the file(s) for future reference, and it would take many, many requests per page load (even on refresh) to retrieve everything if I don't fix it with this upcoming patch. I'm looking into an icon sprite sheet solution to ensure that it all loads once, and is immediately cached for a smoother experience.

@TeeThingus_Bonemantics

we need more tag filter for the site such as series tag or tool tag

Finished the list of the various icons presented however long ago here along with several reworks of icons. I found the visual list of all the icons the site uses by default, so I'm going to approach that with a handful of new ones next.