use cool eye symbols for android as well about organicmaps HOT 7 CLOSED

Yes, I do 🙂 This was my personal choice after trying a dozen of different designs, including Material icons.

That's what I came up with:

First, I found that a closed eye is less recognizable and visually distinctive than a crossed one (simply speaking, the glyph looks too small and doesn't differ much). Crafting a good crossed one took some time, but I'm very happy with the result.

Secondly, I opted for drawing the eye icons from scratch instead of using Material ones because I was able to achieve better visual balance with other icons. In OM rounded shapes are preferred to sharper ones; icons are consistent with material by keeping 2px stroke on 24px canvas but margins are carefully chosen dependent on icon shape to make them look better next to each other; etc.

Overall, I was aiming to achieve a softer and nicer look while staying consistent and semantic. All of this was done for iOS, where we try to mix and match an older Material-inspired UI style with a more modern SF Icons visual style. Maybe Android is okay by just reusing Material icons as is.

Maybe I could write up a github wiki page with a UI icons guideline, what do think?

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... redrawn in the Material style of course :)

The eyes are a much better metaphor.

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@Jean-BaptisteC you don't think so?

also, there are some already made material ones 👍️:

(https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=eye)

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Default checkbox is not good, because checkbox is used to select items in list not to set visibility of items.
Personnaly, I don't like eye icon to set visibility, I prefer map icon like in OSMAnd (it's a little different because he use toggle to set visibility of items)
I have found an map icon https://fonts.google.com/icons?selected=Material%20Symbols%20Outlined%3Amap%3AFILL%400%3Bwght%40400%3BGRAD%400%3Bopsz%4024 but I didn't have found version icon with bar like for eye icon.

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@Jean-BaptisteC which OSMand icons are you talking about?

Visibility icon should be more or less clear, as it is standardized by Google.

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This icon https://fonts.google.com/icons?selected=Material%20Symbols%20Outlined%3Amap%3AFILL%400%3Bwght%40400%3BGRAD%400%3Bopsz%4024

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@euf, do you remember the reason for using a crossed-eye icon instead of a closed-eye?

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