[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26936: Create new dashicons

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#26936: Create new dashicons
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 Reporter:  melchoyce       |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  General         |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  minor           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by melchoyce):

 Replying to [comment:45 EmpireOfLight]:
 > Sorry I've been awol on this. Trying to guage what needs to be done-
 here's a screenshot of the latest dashicons.glyphs file I have locally:
 > https://cloudup.com/cZOiWAKvjsu
 >
 > I also had some Jen Mylo Skype requests which I'll sum up here (my
 comments in parenthesis):
 >
 > clipboard - organizers (unif481)
 > microphone - speakers (unif482)
 > universal access icon - accessiblity  (unif483)
 > plugins and themes icons with a checkmark for the theme/plugin review
 teams (unif485, not sure what to do for themes icon with checkmark; please
 advise)
 > a name badge like hello my name is but just stylized - attendees of
 events (unif484)
 > and something to represent design (vs themes), open to ideas on
 metaphor. things we've used in the past = artist's paintbrush (vs
 housepainter like themes), crayon, palette, etc (we already have unif309
 pallette which could work for this)
 > -tweaking the eye (make less creepy, like in genericons)

 Hey Ben, thanks for these new icons — they look great.

 I chatted a bit with Jen the other day and we both agreed that the
 microphone here makes us think less of speakers and more of a computer
 microphone/recording microphone, and realized the megaphone icon being
 used for WordCamps is actually exactly what we need:
 https://cloudup.com/cumZQfTgFOO Any way we can get that one included in
 Dashicons? (We could probably add all of the WordCamp-specific icons, and
 just not make helper classes for them like we do with the bbs). The
 microphone icon you made it great and has a wide range of use cases, so we
 should keep that one as well.

 Jen and I also chatted about the design icon, and she thinks the current
 icon (the painter's palette) is hard to understand out of context,
 especially since it doesn't have any dots of paint on it. That's why she
 was leaning towards an artist's brush. I personally prefer the artist's
 paintbrush idea over crayons, which seems childish.

 For the theme/plugin icons — I think instead of making new icons, we
 should just tile a check icon onto the plugin/theme icons using css.
 That'll allow us greater flexibility, and we won't have to worry about
 fitting everything into 20x20px. Our current checkmark is small enough
 that it might work as-is?

 The new eye looks GREAT!

 > tweaking the new brackets in trunk [mel] wanted to have be less
 steep/more in style of others (not sure which icon this is)

 Now I can't remember which icon I was talking about, either. Oops. Maybe
 the code icon? I think I want to modify it to be a little thicker, anyway
 — if feels pretty wimpy next to the other icons:
 https://cloudup.com/cJQse8sGVCK I made the version used in the media icon
 a little larger, so I'll probably do the same for the current dashicon.

 > I'm also still unsure of which media icons from #26650 to add into the
 file. Let me know.

 Still working on that one — will let you know asap.

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