I think a better title would be "Designing Icons for Material Design". The guide comes over as very opinionated in places, which doesn't match all past or even contemporary uses of icons - but the guidelines make sense as part of Google's Material Design system.

I can't say I'd ever consider "Material Design" to be an authority on what good iconography or website design should look like. It's always felt second-rate.

So bland. Call me nostalgic but I really miss the diversity (but consistency) of the Windows XP-era of icon design.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms997636...

lol. Wish I could have grabbed a pic for this but on mobile the actual Material Icon in the top left is pretty much unreadable.

- am i the only guy that thinks material guy looks absolutely atrocious

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