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> What is the "Archive" icon even supposed to depict? A labeled archive box. https://kagi.com/images?q=archive+box https://kagi.com/images?q=archive+box This
by esafak 1y ago
> What is the "Archive" icon even supposed to depict?
A labeled archive box. https://kagi.com/images?q=archive+box https://kagi.com/images?q=archive+box
This raises the question of the universality of icons. They are contextual to territory and time. Until recently, a diskette was the universal icon for saving. Yet nobody under thirty today has probably ever seen one.
- layer8 1y agoYeah, I think “what does this icon depict” is a little beside the point, also considering the mIRC screenshot. BUT, what is important is for icons to be easily re-cognizable by shape AND color, and modern low-contrast monochrome icons fail that, being designed to look as uniform as possible. In the Outlook screenshot, the fact that the labels have the same color as the icons also doesn’t help. Furthermore, the label text size there emphasizes the larger-sized icons, although the text is more informative.