https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153606
--- Comment #9 from alexandre burton <[email protected]> --- yes the problem is specific to the bright background. it's interesting that you ask "How can it look perfect on Heiko's side but not on the other?" it's a bit like the icon is a successful (yet accidental) optical illusion -- a variation of https://www.popsci.com/circle-look-larger-optical-illusion/ a few things coalesce in the perception of the icon's smallness: the main one, as i mentioned above, is the white background + gray outline + white "content icon". this "russian doll" hierarchy creates the contrast conditions to fool the eye-brain. moreover the LO icon has no sharp shadow; 3 impacts: it makes it hard to distinguish from the pale background, it makes it look "behind" the others (not raised) and it makes it technically smaller (the LO icon is the same pixel size as the others, but without the shadows -- the shadows add a couple pixels to the weight. some icons fill the squircle with white (ex TextEdit) but note that in that case the "the squircle is the object" (the white page). also note and the sharpness of shadow, delineating all the periphery of the page. I don't have the microsoft software but i downloaded Telegram (in heiko's screenshot it's the closest in design with a white background) and the shadow is sharp there, and the blue circle has much weight. it could be argued that making the LO icon outline more discernible with a tight shadow would fix the problem, and i would agree to an extent (it would probably solve the optical illusion), but it would still be a missed opportunity to make something stand out... i will re-state my take: the dark outline "delineating" function should be transferred to the whole squircle (filling it gray) and within it the white LO icon (similar to the Mail icon). this is why i say the icon is not properly integrated (title of this issue) as it does not leverage the features of the platform language design. furthermore, doing this opens up the possibility of alpha-cutting the upper-right corner out of the squircle and making it a pointed right angle -- certainly a design challenge to execute properly, especially with alpha shadows, but which could look great as it would ascertain control over the squircle shape while reinforcing the LO concept of the floating triangle corner. (here are the 4 icons mentionned in this post: https://pasteboard.co/cCd878K8LIHV.jpg) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
