Re:Noun Project – Icons for Everything
by coldtea on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:19AM
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>Tooltips aren't always used.
Well, those would be bad interfaces. But the standard in OS X and Windows apps is to have tooltips.
>A further complication is that people tend to copyright icons, so the icons from one app to the next are substantially different.
Is that a thing? They might not be able to show the exact same design, but they'd still be able to show a floppy disk or trash can or whatever.
That said, OSes could (and some do) provide standard sets of icons to be used across apps, and only special app-specific actions should have custom icons.
Well, those would be bad interfaces. But the standard in OS X and Windows apps is to have tooltips.
>A further complication is that people tend to copyright icons, so the icons from one app to the next are substantially different.
Is that a thing? They might not be able to show the exact same design, but they'd still be able to show a floppy disk or trash can or whatever.
That said, OSes could (and some do) provide standard sets of icons to be used across apps, and only special app-specific actions should have custom icons.