[Design] Google icon set release (CC-BY-SA)

[Erik Moeller]

FYI:
http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html

[Shahyar Ghobadpour]

757 glyphs. That's a lot of icons!

--Shahyar

Post by Erik Moeller
http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html
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[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Post by Erik Moeller
http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html

Are those the icons they use themselves?

Nemo

[Pau Giner]

Post by Federico Leva (Nemo)
Are those the icons they use themselves?

Yes, at least in the new versions of products. This is part of the material
design <http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html>
initiative (iconography section
<http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons>),
which they are adopting across all different devices (not only for Google
products, but encouraging their use on apps targeting Android).

Pau

Post by Federico Leva (Nemo)

Post by Erik Moeller
http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/google-releases-set-of-beautif.html

Are those the icons they use themselves?
Nemo
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[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Post by Federico Leva (Nemo)
Are those the icons they use themselves?
Yes, at least in the new versions of products. This is part of the
material design
<http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html>
initiative (iconography section
<http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons>), which
they are adopting across all different devices (not only for Google
products, but encouraging their use on apps targeting Android).

Interesting. It seems that Google has no interest in looking radically
different from other websites, as someone felt necessary for Wikimedia
projects vs. the rest of MediaWikis.

Nemo

[Steven Walling]

Post by Federico Leva (Nemo)
Interesting. It seems that Google has no interest in looking radically
different from other websites, as someone felt necessary for Wikimedia
projects vs. the rest of MediaWikis.

Keep in mind that material design is also intended to be a design standard
used in Android by third party developers and OEMs. They want people to
pick this up, not to have a lot of unique design standards, because the
usefulness of Android is dependent on a consistent look and feel.

So Google distributing this is more akin to Wikimedia encouraging gadget
and extension developers to use OOJS/OOUI, rather than encouraging third
party installs of MediaWiki to do the same.