They also look like a gripper widget: a small square that can be dragged around in order to move the item on which it appears, commonly used for for positioning toolbars or re-ordering list items. Because of this, they have added a bit of confusion to user interface conventions.

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marginalia_nu 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Modern monochrome line-art icons are an entirely separate trainwreck to be honest. They're incredibly difficult to parse and distinguish.

It very much feels like we've fallen into the same trap medieval handwriting did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)#/media/Fi... -- building designs around what looks aesthetically uniform and cool rather than what is easy to parse and use.

	▲	hulitu 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> They're incredibly difficult to parse and distinguish And the fact that they are changed every couple of years, doesn't help either.
	▲	seec 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Indeed. It's all fashion nowadays. It's a form of aestheticism which I believe is closely linked to religiousness. There is a lot to develop but you can already observe than a lot of people have an approach to technology that isn't too far from the approach to "god" related things.

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marginalia_nu 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Just noticed Reddit uses an oddly placed hamburger menu icon to signify the action of clossing the navigation sidebar.

https://imgur.com/ZjBZhE1