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Inkscape contains a lot of lovely cursor SVGs
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Aksherly . . .

I am looking around for some Open Source icons of buttons and fields: but have not found any yet, which surprises me.

I am a fan of the Google Material Icons font for many of these types of icons.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/material_icons
https://fonts.google.com/icons

The library is quite extensive which means it covers a broad range of topics. Something I feel is important when one of the goals is to achieve consistency across multiple topics. And being an illustrator and typographer hobbyist I usually mimic the style for any missing icons.

There is a text formatting section with icons specific to text and fields.

• Comes in a font, SVG and PNG.
• Font version is capable of several weight styles
• Solid fill and Outline versions
• Flat 2D removing any subjectiveness

Falls under the Apache license.

These materials icon are used heavily across the entire Google and Android platform so they will look familiar to many people.

And it's backed by a large community and design guidelines:

https://m3.material.io/

There is also v2 which has more icons:

https://m2.material.io/resources

slord wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 2:56 pm I am a fan of the Google Material Icons font for many of these types of icons.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/material_icons
https://fonts.google.com/icons

The library is quite extensive which means it covers a broad range of topics. Something I feel is important when one of the goals is to achieve consistency across multiple topics. And being an illustrator and typographer hobbyist I usually mimic the style for any missing icons.

OXT IDE now includes all 6000+ of Material Icons packed into an SVG Path library, plus a few other sets.

I quite like the some of the cursor designs in Richmonds stack here, could maybe use some for new Tools palette(s).

As ALL the SVG images in that series of stacks I released are Open Source there really should be nothing stopping you from using whatever you want.

What I really want to do is locate a set of SVGs for GUI controls . . .

We / You / I... could painstakingly draw them in Inkscape (Illustrator, or whatever).
Thing is, poking around in LC, it currently loads all the PNGs for the tools palette from file. They are not simply placed into the stack. If they were, I could just replace the image with an SVG.
Seems like it looks at what the platform is (Mac/Win/Linux) and then loads a set of PNGs from the corresponding folder. (This is why the appearance of the tools palette icons change between platforms).
That's for the benefit of anyone who hasn't poked around inside this thing – I'm not meaning to teach anyone to suck eggs.
Anyway, should be a case of dropping new PNGs in to replace the icons and tool buttons, just like I did with the horizontal toolbar.

The advantage of making these pure SVGs are only apparent if you increase the view scale on your monitor to 200%. I'm sure some people have a need for that, but generally I feel that PNGs would be fine.

I was going to put some time into adding some colour to these gift8 icons above, saving them as PNGs and seeing how they look in my OXT lite 'hack'. – I use the term loosely, as I don't think hack does it justice. It could become a viable build, or elements of it definitely could.
I'll also remake some interface elements in a matching style if you like (depends on how much time I have).

If I'm feeling really masochistic, and feel like giving myself a headache – I may sit and add colour to the SVGs first, before I add them as PNGs into OXT. At least someone with more experience could always add the SVGs in if there really is a need for it?

Open to suggestions on this as always. I'll start with the UI interface elements first, just so if anyone feels like having a go - we aren't both working on the same thing at the same time.