This is an update to 82 Zed UI and file_icons to improve icon legibility
and align contributed file_icons to the general icon system styling.
From review it appears they're 2px larger in width and height but gpui
render scaling is at play. The original icons were designed at 14x14 to
be viewed at that size, but the ui_font_size now controls this so
they've been updated to the default of 16x16 for optimum fidelity.
Release Notes:
- Updated various UI and file icons for consistency.
Tried to match the existing file icons in Zed as much as possible. This
is how it looks:
| dark | light |
|---|----|
| <img width="183" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-06 at 15 03 57"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/43472/bd862753-41bb-4ca6-9a44-16b9b1c9591c">
| <img width="180" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-06 at 15 03 14"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/43472/9df8c589-64b6-49f2-8e15-b43126579a9f">
|
The main challenge is that the tangram is visually quite heavy and
detailed. The existing icons in Zed are designed in a 14px bounding box,
but are a bit smaller themselves. I guess the extra space is reserved
for hanging elements, it probably doesn't make sense to occupy the whole
area.
Simply scaling down an available SVG of the tangram didn't work well.
The individual shapes were not recognizable because the spacing between
them was too thin. I tried removing the spacing and applying different
opacities for each shape, but that didn't yield enough contrast between
the shapes either.
The second approach was to just use the outlines. It sort of worked, but
looked a bit messy in the places when the outlines are denser than the
tangram shapes:
| dark | light |
|---|----|
| <img width="192" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-05 at 22 55 46"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/43472/d0029f49-675d-40ac-96d8-788a29706bad">
| <img width="195" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-05 at 22 56 05"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/43472/d2de922a-70ec-4bd1-9033-db9a5201e9bd">
|
I then tried to remove the main outline and use the maximum space for
the tangram. That let me increase the spacing between the shapes. I also
rounded them a little bit, to make them look similar to other icons from
Zed. The end result looks clean and the shapes are still recognisable.
Approaches I tried next to an existing icon from Zed:
<img width="711" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-06 at 15 15 33"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/43472/a3e4b0db-4b98-4072-91e8-fe71cff19adf">
Release Notes:
- Added file type icon for Elm
