Here Are the New Beautified Monochromatic Icons of Ubuntu Linux | Linux Today

Here Are the New Beautified Monochromatic Icons of Ubuntu Linux

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Marius Nestor
Jul 16, 2015

Steph Wilson reports that the design team managed to reduce and standardize the strokes width of the icons from 6px or 8px to 4px, as well as to slightly reduce the curvature radius of squares and rectangles in order to make the them less ???clumsy???. Moreover, it would appear that there are now more outlines and less solid shapes, and that few outlines are “broken” to offer more personality to most icons, including those for bookmark, delete, copy, contact, paste, and slideshow.

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Marius Nestor

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