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Icon Set Brief

Prioritises consistent optical weight over grid adherence, which is what actually makes a set look like one.

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Running it, start to finish

  1. Fix stroke weight, corner radius and detail level as constant rules.
  2. Check your icon list for metaphor collisions.
  3. Consider an existing open set plus a few custom icons before commissioning.

What you get back

The output this produces, every time.

  • Prioritises optical weight over grid adherence, which is what the eye actually judges.
  • Checks for metaphor collisions, where one symbol is used for two concepts.
  • Says honestly that generating a consistent icon set is one of the weaker uses of image models.

Getting better results

Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.

  • Design at the display size. An icon drawn large and scaled down looks muddy. One drawn at 16 pixels and scaled up stays clean.
  • Hold detail level constant. One detailed icon beside simple ones breaks a set more visibly than any stroke or radius inconsistency.
  • Use a word where the icon is ambiguous. An icon that has to be learned is worse than a label, and abstract concepts rarely have a good symbol.

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