“…and at that point it stops being a system.”

A few nice moments that caught my attention in Marek Minor’s case study of designing icons for Cursor. The diagonals for “cancel/​wrong” icons are always backslashes, and all the “positive” icons are always slashes: There is a system that provides 1-to-1-and-only-1 mapping between a concept and an icon: The point of the table is that each “What’s the icon for [X]?” has exactly one answer, and keeps having exactly one answer as the product grows. Without it, a set slowly develops two icons for the same idea, and at that point it stops being a system. And, on the page itself, a few nice blink-comparator-like vehicles with subtle text animations: #case study #iconography #system design