[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23333: New icons

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#23333: New icons
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 Reporter:  empireoflight   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus        |
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Comment (by joen):

 Replying to [comment:54 bftrick]:

 > I love the idea of an icon font but I don't think we should have to know
 how to create an icon font to use an icon for our plugin.

 Excellent question.

 I have one idea for how to solve that conundrum, but it's hard me to
 convey without sounding controversial (so please don't burn me at the
 stake for sharing).

 For as long as I can remember, the Codex has suggested people be mindful
 of creating new top-level menus. The ultimate risk is a Microsoft Office-
 like menu overload.

 A solution that would allow plugin developers to keep top level menus,
 would be to bundle a stack of semi-generic icons within the font, which
 authors could then pick from. These semi-generic icons could range from
 newsletter icons over paint-brushes to knobs and dials and cogs. A side-
 benefit to this would be the fact that all icons would use the same
 overall visual language and styling, not visually weighing down the
 overall appearance.

 The obvious knock to that argument would be from the commercial plugin
 vendors that like to brand their plugins through that icon. But they'd
 still be able to do so on the actual options page not to mention the
 plugin title itself. So personally I'm still in the camp that we can
 gracefully introduce an icon font, and that the 20x20px less branding
 afforded to plugins would be an acceptable trade-off.

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