Talk:Design/Archive/WikiFont

Lock
vs. . This doesn't look very much like reuse to me: one concept of negation (the bar) seems enough, those locks are very hard to see. --Nemo 15:34, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I think the padlock indicates "prevention" of an action (ie. protection) and matches the padlocks used in en:WP:PROTECT. [is that an internationally used standard symbol for wiki page-protection? I'm not aware of any variants, but then I'm monolingual! :( I checked about 20 of the interwiki links from the Enwiki page, and the ones that had images all used padlocks.]
 * Whereas, the diagonal bar/strike/slash is currently used to indicate "reversal" of an action (unhide, undelete, unsuppress). The only alternative symbol for a reversal (that I can think of at this second) is the curving-arrow, as seen in RevertPencil icon.svg - I'm not a fan of that particular icon, and I never liked the shortcut arrow that WindowsOS always uses (plus our usage of it is confusing with the Windows usage).
 * Regarding "hard to see", I guess there'd have to be a "minimal size" recommendation, as these 20px examples are indeed too small, but 30 or 40px might be fine.
 * (I'm not advocating my word-choices (prevention/reversal) as a good guide. There's possibly better keywords, and possibly other subtypes of negation that I'm forgetting). HTH. –Quiddity (talk) 18:55, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Check mark
At en:Check mark there are some indications that this might not be a internationally unambiguous glyph. I'm not sure how uptodate/accurate that is though. –Quiddity (talk) 18:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

See also pages
How does this page relate to Wikimedia Foundation Design/Agora icon set and Project:Visual identity ? Perhaps we could add a sentence or two, to this documentation page, explaining & pointing to them? (I assume this page is the "short and sweet" version. But possibly you plan to enlarge it greatly, over the months ahead?)

There's also the semi-related Echo/Feature requirements. I'm not sure what other project-specific listings exist, eg. VE?

Lastly, there's the Enwiki en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons which is about icons in articles (not the site UI) but is interesting nonetheless. HTH. :) –Quiddity (talk) 18:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)