paulrobertlloyd@mastodon.social
paulrobertlloyd@mastodon.social

The release of @manton’s new notes app got me thinking about the icons for these different companion apps, and how they might look if they were designed to appear more like a family.

Too closely related? Possibly, but there’s something in this, I think.

The current iOS icon for Micro.blog, sat alongside 4 alternative icons for Strata, Sunlit, Wavelength and Epilogue. All icons share a yellow colour palette and feature overlapping shapes.

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manton
manton

@paulrobertlloyd Wow, these look fantastic. I need to think about it a little but pretty sure I love it. 🙂

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crossingthethreshold
crossingthethreshold

@paulrobertlloyd Very clever. I like them. My initial thought is that it might be difficult to distinguish between them, but I am also thinking that with time I will just get the difference.

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lmika
lmika

@paulrobertlloyd Wow, these look great. Really like the designs.

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writingslowly
writingslowly

@paulrobertlloyd these are fantastic! True, they're really similar to each other at first sight, but as soon as you think about what each app does, it's impossible to forget which is which. Bravo!

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jean
jean

@paulrobertlloyd Nice!

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xxxx
xxxx

@paulrobertlloyd this is absolutely doing something for me.

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@paulrobertlloyd Fantastic designs👏

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paulrobertlloyd
paulrobertlloyd

@manton Thanks! I’m unsure if each icon needs an accent colour somewhere to help distinguish between them, and the Sunlit icon needs a little more refinement, but hopefully this demonstrates the idea of making these apps feel part of the greater whole.

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manton
manton

@paulrobertlloyd Want to send me an email? I'd love to talk more about this.

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@manton please make this happen! So nice!

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ner3y
ner3y

@paulrobertlloyd great work!

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jarrod
jarrod

@paulrobertlloyd @manton Wow. Just gorgeous!

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cygnoir
cygnoir

@paulrobertlloyd I love these!

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