Icon Style in Affinity Designer v2

[arnofly]

Hello,

Yesterday, I installed Designer v2. I'm really excited about it, especially the Warp Group tool. What's the bug with Ctrl+Y? (joke). I discovered that in VSCode, Ctrl+Shift+Z works like Ctrl+Y, so I'll probably get used to "Photoshop's" Redo again, but that's not the point.

Just a quick comment to say I don't like the new icons for the geometric shape tools.

• Designer v1
• blue -> blue 👍
• Rounded Rectangle tool more "Rounded" than v2

 

• Designer v2
• Geometric shapes tools 🤮

 

It's just my opinion. Have a nice day, guys!"

[bbrother]

If they really make you feel 🤮, you can try changing the  icon style for overall UI from colour to mono in Settings → User Interface → Icon Style. This will unify the icons apperance in the whole UI to monochrome and thus maybe you'll find them more tolerable.

[arnofly]

Yep, I've seen that. Thx. I like globally the new icons set, except for the geometric shape. In Designer v1 with the same color, it's more "understandable", if you see what I mean.

[Pšenda]

18 hours ago, arnofly said:

In Designer v1 with the same color

The "same" color is not needed at all, because Shape Tools and Boolean operation have nothing in common. The Shape Tool may not always be Fill, so drawing their icons filled is rather confusing. For Boolean operations, the fill shows the type/result of the operation, so filled icon is useful here.

[arnofly]

I disagree.

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The "same" color is not needed at all, because Shape Tools and Boolean operation have nothing in common

Most of the time, you need to use both to accomplish the job. They work together, so saying that they have nothing in common leaves me perplexed.

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The Shape Tool may not always be Fill, so drawing their icons filled is rather confusing

The Shape Tool is not always empty; it is even filled by default. So, I don’t see where the confusion is.

I note that you prefer the new version 😉

[arnofly]

And he Shape Tool looks too much like the Select Tool in Photo 2, even though the icons are not next to each other in my actual toolbar."

VS

The first version of the Shape Tool icon was much better, without any hesitation.