Tracking: Alternate Icon Ideas

[hawkrives]

This is a tracking issue for the second push on alternate icons. The first set of two icons is going out in v2.5.

Iconographical Ideas

• Windmill
• MGM Lion (@hawkrives)
• Squirrel (@drewvolz)
• Pizza (@drewvolz)
• Water tower (lion silhouette on tower top) (@hawkrives)
• Circuit lion (@drewvolz)
• Boe Chapel structure (@hawkrives)
• "O" for Olaf (@drewvolz)
• UmYahYah square from new branding guidelines (@hawkrives)
• Something calligraphical/fancy? (@rye)

Other Ideas

• Offer each as a full/multi-color basic icon
• Also offer six-ish other single-color-tint variants, for people who like to colorize their homescreens
  • blue
  • red
  • green
  • gold
  • purple
  • pink

[drewvolz]

Circuit lion

[drewvolz]

I really enjoy The Noun Project's set of icons. We can even use them freely if we credit.

• Water tower
• Chapel
• Pizza
• Squirrel

[hawkrives]

https://bl.ocks.org/hawkrives/raw/52076be27ca1bde0c0b83524ed8cd7bf/

I've got part of a skeleton for generating colorized versions of our icons; this will be even nicer when we have them as vectors, but this POC shows that we needen't always impose that restriction. :)

For longevity:

References for feColorMatrix:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14663252/matching-a-color-in-svg-with-fecolormatrix#14663343
• https://css-tricks.com/color-filters-can-turn-your-gray-skies-blue/
• http://paletton.com/#uid=13B0u0kwi++bu++hX++++rd++kX (for colors)
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21977929/match-colors-in-fecolormatrix-filter#21979654
• http://alistapart.com/article/finessing-fecolormatrix – I may need to re-read this one to get any value out of it

[hawkrives]

I found the "midjourney" ml bot (by way of Steve T-S). Here are some examples:

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[hawkrives]

I'll come through and cleaning up this post into a thread, for easier voting and display, and replacing the screenshots with better quality PNGs later today.