New icons were introduced with a recent V9 WIP update (2025-02-12 ?) which use pastel colors. @Gijs discusses them here: [image] How have you customized your Rhino UI? Rhino for Windows I think you see what you want to see. If there are similarities, I guess that is purely…

[image] Holo: [image] encephalon: too much contrast Keep in mind that contrast is all bout perceived light intensity as we have adaptable eyes. Man-splaining follows: (iris=aperture) the perceived contrast depends on both lumen from the monitor, it’s actual black level, it’s gamma setti…

[image] Kyle Houchens: sounds like you are saying what I said above " users want to customize icons to their liking" Only if you are going to change what we are used to… into something we don’t really like at first glance :slight_smile: THEN we want to change it to what we think is better fo…

Yet most people will just use the default and be happy about it

I think an approach like the one you can see in the video below should be chosen. Also, there should be custom options and these themes should also be able to be shared.

It’s Rhino 9 WIP’s vastly different direction to change the looks of the toolbar icons (washed-out colours, low-contrast outlines, replacing certain blue objects with lime green ones) that causes more issues now, so bringing this topic to where it’s now is the natural consequence of the drastic deci…

[image] Kyle Houchens: sounds like you are saying what I said above " users want to customize icons to their liking" OR “Users suffer from the newly introduced changes to the UI and want a way to fix that. Or at least an option to use a legacy set of icons”

[image] Philip: I have to disagree… My old eyes like the contrast. i completely understand, i definitely did not elaborate on that close enough and expressed that simply wrong. lowering the brightness contrast is not what i actually meant, but “contrast” indeed plays a role here, though diffe…

This thread suggests to me that these are discussions that have been thoroughly examined over the decades that computer and television interfaces have existed by the professionals that design the interfaces. It sounds like the kind of thing you’d get when the cement contractor or plumber start discu…

[image] encephalon: 2 sets of icons. for Rhino we would need nothing more, one for monochrome and one for the colour, I guess multiple icons for the tools are the best sollution for how McNeel has solved this now. Only read on if you have nothing better to do: Getting a professional GUI don…

My impression is that the Standard tab, along with the side bar, is where it looks cluttered. Because in there is a mixture of tool ‘groups’ - curves, srf, solids, transformations etc. And now in different colors the mix becomes obvious. The other tabs are more organized, not perfect, but no real…

New icons in V9 WIP

Serengeti (Rhino BETA)

davide76 April 28, 2025, 11:21am 105

At the very least, can’t we just leave the traditional Rhino icon blue unchanged, instead of using that horrible “Smurf” blue?

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New icons in V9 WIP

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