An exploration into the Icon theme

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MisterMaker
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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Adjusted the colors a bit to be more vibrant.
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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MisterMaker wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 8:17 am Adjusted the colors a bit ...
That is beginning to look good ;)
I personally (just an opinion) would like to try even more vibrant?

Also - a lot of people use bog standard white background
I'd suggest presenting here both (for comparison) so that we don't end up with something dodgy.

Very interested in your colour swapper - that would be good addon for FreeCAD (where can I get it?)
I am using Link branch and Assembly3
you can also download ... and try it here
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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Finished off main toolbar for Sketcher. Very happy with the view-sketch icons, the original where not really clear and especially when you use high res and tiny icons the complex icons aren't really readable. I think this is really going to improve my workflow.
Also finally understand what that cross icon does, it stops the operation so I made it a more specific stop icon.(I always thought you would exit the sketch without saving.)
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btw I have no grudge to anyone who made these icons, they all where good icons. But if you just focus on the icons and nothing else and don't have to follow this art-work directive they will be a bit better. Also doing icons for multiple workbenches gives you the ability to re-use icons and it even gets easier.
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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Very cool stuff, the spline icon looks weird with different sized vertex though. Also the subtractive box icon looks very similar to the thickness icon so if you can think of a way of making them different it would be better IMO.
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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MisterMaker wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 4:52 am Now I can make a color pallet give it a name and just switch too it. Basically a 30 minute job of switching themes changed to 1 second.
Blend file will still work without it but you are back to manual color switching.
Oh, nice workflow tweak indeed! Thanks for the explanation!
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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adrianinsaval wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 12:20 pm Very cool stuff, the spline icon looks weird with different sized vertex though. Also the subtractive box icon looks very similar to the thickness icon so if you can think of a way of making them different it would be better IMO.
I noticed that when I made them, but I have a gazzilion icons to go and the subtractive and additive primitives aren't really import features in my opinion. (Unless you are Tinkercad fan.)
MY idea is to do these WB:
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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Looking excellent, however I wonder if you have been checking
the styles for users with colour blindness, e.g. using https://colororacle.org/

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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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cadcam wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 5:22 am Looking excellent, however I wonder if you have been checking
the styles for users with colour blindness, e.g. using https://colororacle.org/

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Nice I was planning into making a color blind theme.

Btw the original colors theme is on my gumroad.
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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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Couple of readable web pages on colour combinations for the colour blind
with example rgb values etc

https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/about/blo ... n-together

https://venngage.com/blog/color-blind-friendly-palette/

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Re: An exploration into the Icon theme

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There was an attempt.
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I also fixed the grayish look of the icons.
Also updated Freecad original theme, it is already available for download on the Gumroad page.
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