branding: improve scalable and symbolic application icon #7

mahlzahn commented 2025年12月01日 17:06:28 +01:00

The icon should follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, also for colors. It currently does, but I see room for improvement:

• the underlying orange board looks off for PDF documents which are rather a heap of paper or a book
• I like the cutter knife as metaphor, but it should be more prominent in both symbols
• symbolic icon: maybe keep only the cutter knife?
• in the scalable icon the knife looks a bit like a thermometer
• blade should have different or no gradient (now it looks round)
• knife should also not be confused with a lip stick ;)

I am open also to other metaphors. E.g., I can imagine that scissors with a black rectangle could be easier to depict and grasp.

See current icons and brand colors here.

scalable icon symbolic icon

Brand colors (open for changing, too, will choose after icon):

light #d1819b and dark #943855

See banner preview on Flathub.

See related https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-icon-requests/-/issues/133 for a icon request from GNOME designers.

The icon should follow the [GNOME Human Interface Guidelines](https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/app-icons.html), also for [colors](https://developer.gnome.org/hig/reference/palette.html). It currently does, but I see room for improvement: - the underlying orange board looks off for PDF documents which are rather a heap of paper or a book - I like the cutter knife as metaphor, but it should be more prominent in both symbols - symbolic icon: maybe keep only the cutter knife? - in the scalable icon the knife looks a bit like a thermometer - blade should have different or no gradient (now it looks round) - knife should also not be confused with a lip stick ;) I am open also to other metaphors. E.g., I can imagine that scissors with a black rectangle could be easier to depict and grasp. <details><summary>See current icons and brand colors here.</summary>   Brand colors (open for changing, too, will choose after icon):  and  See [banner preview](https://flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor/bannerpreview) on Flathub. </details> See related https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-icon-requests/-/issues/133 for a icon request from GNOME designers.