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Iconography
Ably uses icons to aid recognition of themes and features.
Lineart
Suggested uses
Some suggested usage examples:
- Channels, chat
- Encryption, security
- Privacy, compliance
- Guarantees, reassurances
- Notifications, alerts
- History, recovery
- Libraries
- Documentation
- Document or library download
- Quick-start, launchers
- Feature innovation
- Settings, mechanics
- Costs, calculations
- Adaptors, integration
- Performance
- Free tier
- Self-service tier
- Enterprise tier
- Customer support, help
- The future, robotics
- Performance
- Peak connections
- Messages
- Tools, configuration
- Migration, access
- Tutorials
- Reference, repository
Custom
Sometimes, even with an icon set as broad as Lineart, it necessary to create custom icons of our own, for example in a diagram where the individual elements are displayed at larger sizes. This should only be done to a specific brief and the work should be carried out by a suitably experienced/qualified designer.
Here are a few examples:
Note how the thick-and-think stoke weights is carried over from Lineart.
Resource
All files
Vector
Sprites