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| Nov 19 2016, 12:26 AM |
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| Nov 19 2016, 12:26 AM |
Hi !
In T150924 we had feedback from the community that the mapPin icon may be confused with the letter Q.
We Maps (Kartographer) suggest to reduce the size of the hole in the MapPin icon and MapPinAdd (ltr) & MapPinAdd (rtl) icons.
See:
| Before | After |
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What do you think?
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki theme: Reduce MapPin icons' hole for better recognisability | oojs/ui | master | +6 -5 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T55733 Use the same icons to represent the same things (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | Volker_E | T152573 Update Kartographer mapPin icon to exact OOUI mapPin icon | |||
| Resolved | Volker_E | T151099 Reduce the size of the hole in MapPin and MapPinAdd icons |
@Pginer-WMF @RHo I think we should follow the user feedback here without hesitating. What do you think?
This is interesting. Using stroke widths that align better with the text ones can help making the whole thing (icon + label) to be perceived more as a unity. However, it also increases the chances of confusion as being text.
The proposed design looks good to me since the pin seems still identifiable as such, but @RHo may have other considerations about the design of the pin (e.g., is it used elsewhere on mobile apps? does the change seem likely to break anything on those other places?).
(I based my comments on the screenshots above, which do not seem to match the usual 100% zoom scale users may face most often)
I think the smaller hole in the pin works fine and is better in keeping with the ratio of pin-to-hole size in some other pin icons as well.
Android is using an different (older style) green pin on the Nearby map view which will be updated separately at some other point anyway so doesn't interfere with this change, and iOS doesn't have a map view yet so doesn't use any pin 'asset'.
+ @cmadeo to bear in mind the icon edit for upcoming iOS nearby visual treatment.
New map pins with smaller hole attached below:
Change 325438 had a related patch set uploaded (by VolkerE):
MediaWiki theme: Reduce MapPin* icons' hole for better recognisability
Change 325438 merged by jenkins-bot:
MediaWiki theme: Reduce MapPin icons' hole for better recognisability
@RHo thanks for the heads up!
FWIW The current iOS places icon has a smaller circle than the OOJS proposed map pin:
