Ubuntu’s Icon Theme Fixing Its Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’
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Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme #yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those #Icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of the icons are indeed oversized. The Yaru icon theme in Ubuntu uses 4 different shapes for its app, folder and mimetype (file) icons, with a shape picked based on what works best for the #design motif being used. Those shapes are: Of those, the most common icon shape used in Yaru is ‘square’ (with rounded corners, but don’t call it a squircle cos that’s so 2014, y’all). It’s […] You’re reading Ubuntu’s Icon Theme Fixing Its Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without (...)