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LibreOffice Design

This is the latest iteration of the new app icons based on your feedback. It's still subject to tweaks, in particular the start center icon. What do you think?

@libodesign
Fill the start center with a little squares the color of each app ?
I always found this icon too empty, but that's personnal.

I'm not a professional but icons are great nonetheless.

@Zekovski
Agree on the start center logo being not informative enough. Both suggestions appeal to me. The other logos look great and intuitive!
@libodesign

@Zekovski @libodesign Yep. One of the main issues with the old icon set was that it doesn’t really encompass a real logo for the whole suite (a sheet actually represents files, not apps) and that’s why it was confused for a “missing icon” placeholder on apple.stackexchange.com/questi

Ask DifferentLibreOffice doesn't have an iconIn the application menu LibreOffice has no icon. How can I add it to it?

@libodesign

Hi. Is the top triangle what people identify as libreoffice product ? I'm not sure and i dont find that a good design choice.

The color blend is a bit old school (not bad just not trendy currently)

@libodesign

I like the plain color background. It's very explicit.

I would maybe add a white border so that it fits on any background well

Maybe just keep the page cut in the corner but not keep the small triangle.

@tuxicoman LibreOffice (and TDF) is identified with the paper clip having a donkey ear at top right. This was the premise for the redesign along with the brand colors.

@libodesign It looks nice. I like the colors

@libodesign
I think the start center icon actually needs colours; diagonal lines, parallel to the fold at the top right, with a narrower grey border?
I know it looks like a rainbow, but it might at least be worth a draft.
I can still remember my installation of Libre Office, when I first looked for the writer icon etc. before I clicked on the grey start center icon for fun ;-)

@libodesign sorry, but I think they are plain ugly. Too much detail here. No way to identify quickly what type of document it contains. No bold brqnd identity.

I know this means long, hard work, and I don't have the time ans skills to propose an alternative. But this is yet another poor LibreOffice icon set.

@libodesign
Only startcenter icon make sense. The diagonal line and grey triangle is meant to be a fold angle.

I'd rather go for the same grey folded angle, every icon, just changing pictogram and different paper color.
Pictogram can be white for better contrast

@libodesign ok ngl, it’s not the aethereal feel of the eliminated candidate, but it feels fresh! I wonder if the LibreOffice logo itself needs and manages to communicate it’s a paper sheet, and how all the icons overall fit in each environment (they’ll probably do fine in Windows, KDE and probably GNOME, not so sure about macOS)

@libodesign They're pretty good, although I'd tend towards making the detailed parts in the body of the icons slightly larger (so they're better visible on small icons) and perhaps slightly less detailed (e.g. only one line for the title on Impress). I also don't know what the dotted line on Math is supposed to symbolise.

@libodesign I think they look great! The fact that the icons have a full color background instead of just a border means they’ll be much more recognizable for me at a glance.

@libodesign at a first glance it looked like upper right does bot render correctly.
and startcenter icon does not blends well with rest maybe more lighter colour strips to white type of gradient will make that nicer.

@libodesign Très belles icônes, mais trop nombreuses. Math est de trop (j'adore les maths). Trop de couleurs tuent la couleur. Aura-t-on demain une icône Chimie, une icône Diagramme ? Toutes les fonctions de "dessins", actuelles ou futures (formes géométriques, équations mathématiques, formules chimiques, circuits électriques, ...), pourraient rejoindre le module Draw. On se limiterait ainsi à 5 + 1 icônes / codes couleurs.

@libodesign Startcenter ought to be an exploding sun into write, chart and present

@libodesign What‘s with the Mourning Band on the top right of the icons?

@libodesign
Pretty pretty!
The start centre icon seems to fall out of line quite a bit though, with no colours and the thick frame. Is that intentional?
Also, Calc and Draw have colourful patches that overlap with other elements (s.th. personally like), while the other icons don't.

@libodesign Still would have preferred the glassy ones but these also turned out nice

@libodesign The star center icon is the ugliest.

@libodesign Remove the white sheet for better.