<div dir="ltr"><div>Tim, <br><br></div>There's an extra bonus to monochrome + highlight color icon set: it is much, much easier for people and groups (such as <span class="gmail-im">Gandesh</span>) to customize icons to their needs. Ie, if a group wants to create an "accent colour" icon set, it'll be much easier to do so using a monochrome set to begin with.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Nyall Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 28 February 2017 at 06:29, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com">tim@kartoza.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> I would also like to see a nice cohesive theme designed. I have seen in the past that you referenced LibreOffice as an example we could follow. IMHO their theme is really bad - from both as aesthetic point of view and from a functional point of view:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Discover/LO52-Screenshots/lo52-writer-02.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.libreoffice.org/<wbr>assets/Uploads/Discover/LO52-<wbr>Screenshots/lo52-writer-02.png</a><br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Oh - I'm not a huge fan of libreoffice's either!<br>
<br>
Both Mathieu and I very much like the direction of this icon style:<br>
<a href="https://www.creativefreedom.co.uk/icon-design-portfolio/application-icons/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.creativefreedom.<wbr>co.uk/icon-design-portfolio/<wbr>application-icons/</a><br>
<br>
There's a single highlight color used to disambiguate similar icons,<br>
plus a red color used to highlight dangerous actions. I'd say this is<br>
a good compromise - we still need to be able to easily differentiate<br>
between "add ring" and "add part", but this highlight color could be<br>
configurable to work with different themes (eg night mapping).<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> The icons are overladen with many small details and too many discordant colours. When I was in Singapore a year or two back, I met up with Ganesh Shanmugam, a local QGIS service provider there. Ganesh had built a customised version of QGIS for use in schools and showed it off to me. One thing I really like is the way they used the same accent colour per toolbar. For example all File icons would get e.g. a red accent, all layer green, and so on. It makes it really easy to:<br>
><br>
> a) find a toolbar even when on a strange computer where things are arranged differently and<br>
> b) give someone instructions : "click on the third icon from the left in the red tinted toolbar"<br>
><br>
> In Gandesh's implementation, they actually coloured the toolbar background, but I think it would also be nice if we rather used the accent colour (so two-tone instead of monochrome) in the icons. Ganesh maybe you could share a link to a screenie?<br>
><br>
> Anyway just my 2c to the debate.<br>
<br>
</span>Interesting idea! My immediate thoughts are that this could detract<br>
from the goal of "toning down" the interface, so it'd need to be done<br>
very subtly. But it's worth exploring!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Nyall<br>
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