Krita Icons Design Guidelines

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There is nice guideline for material icons. Also the page contains Illustrator files with the temllate file, so the artist can make an icon the same style.

I am curius if there such a guide for Krita? If there is no such a guide I think it makes sence to create one and place on the website.

Motivation to have a guide: Even beginning artists will be able to produce a nice “in style” results. Also it will allow plugin makers to do consistent plugins with the main UI.

Also it would be good to have an open list (maybe as a topic) of icons “to design” maintained by developers. Then new contributors will ilimmidiately understand what to focus on. Instead of redesigining already existing icons.

There are som ediscussions already:

The best one so far is this. However, this topic has a set of suggestions.

As for another outside exaples. Blender did a good job with icons. It is a good reference. Interstingly, it quite difficult to find icon guidelines for Blender as well.

The best shot:

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/Icons

And pretty good discussion here:

Again, I will emphasize that is nice to have single point of entey for a designer. The best place for my opinion is
Get Involved section.

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Few days back while discussing something here on KA I suggested having a thread where we make new icons for various things that need icon and submit it in krita. Thanks for making this thread.

I would like to ping @Animtim since he works on krita icons and is the go to person for advice on these.

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Hi,
Indeed we don’t really have such written guidelines yet. I could do that at some point, to summarize as much as possible all the little rules and intents I follow to create icons for Krita. I don’t know when I’ll be able to find the time to write this, so don’t hold your breath, but I’ll keep the idea in mind.

That said, I’m sure that if some good icon artists want to produce consistent icons for plugins, they should already be able to do it after a good observation of our icon set.

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