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Super cool graphic guide

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Quick Guide:

  1. Fork the repository to your GitHub account
  2. Download the templates provided here and design the new icons
  3. Upload the SVG icons to the /other folder in your repository.
  4. Provide the activity names of the new apps, you can gather them easily with Icon Request.
    • These should look something like com.donnnno.arcticons/com.donnnno.arcticons.MainActivity
    • Add them to the appfilter.xml in the /other folder with a code editor like VS Code (LF)
  5. Create a pull request and explain your changes.
  6. Give yourself an entry at the bottom of app/src/main/res/xml/contributors.xml to be included in the credits!
  7. If you're interested in doing some icon requests, take a look at our requests.txt list! When you've completed a request, you can remove it from the list by editing it.

Basic rules

  • use the template files as a reference, the document size should be 48px
  • lines have a thickness of 1px (Inkscape), 1pt (Illustrator)
  • lines should have a round cap & round corner
  • the icons should be drawn in white
  • dots should be a circle with a radius of 0,5px (i.e. total size = 1,5 x 1,5 px)
  • try to be consistent with sizing your icons, make sure it's not to big or small (use the templates as a reference)
  • we don't accept files that are directly image traced, they are a mess to work with and look sloppy
  • if you use any letters or numbers make sure to use the font document from the templates folder.
  • make sure that your SVG file names do not contain any special characters like +-.,!
  • upload the SVG files into the /other directory

Some features

Before contributing SVG icons, open them inside a text editor and check for the following features. If your icon contains any of these SVG features, please replace them before submitting a pull request!

- transform elements
- fill-rule:evenodd
- scientific e-notation

How to Replace

  • transform elements: there are several methods to remove this
    • delete all transform attributes
    • combine one of the transform objects with another one
    • un-group the objects
  • fill-rule:evenodd: these can just be deleted
  • scientific e-notation: replace them with the normal notation

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