Add library icon #1014
Add library icon #1014
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Based on feedback on Slack, a few variants/concepts: An upright, cracked-open book, similar to the NPS bookstore symbol: An open book, similar to the Carto symbol: I think any of these concepts would work well! The latter two do have the advantage that the same symbol in the consumer color could easily be reused for bookstores. |
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I like the NPS bookstore icon. It clearly represents a book (which is hard to discern in the MUTCD icon, IMO), and it looks good in context with other icons. And of course, bonus points for potential reuse in a different color for bookstores. |
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Please add location 17/40.753326/-73.982224 to test/sample_locations.json |
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Done, and I updated the icon in the PR to have the upright/NPS-style book icon for libraries. There was consensus on Slack that this icon would be great for bookstores, which I'll do in a separate PR, and some discussion on whether it would be better to use the same icon or slightly different icons for bookstores and libraries. I'm definitely team same-icon, as I think the style is much more intuitive and coherent that way. But I'm open to other opinions. |
Fixes #821, and makes progress on #435 and #692. Adds an icon for libraries:
Based on feedback in #821, I riffed off the MUTCD I4-1 sign, which depicts a person reading and should be highly recognizable to an American audience.
I'd be open to an approach that uses a lone book symbol as well.
Went with blue coloring, based on discussions like this and others. I think there's an argument to be made that libraries also fit the definition of "Attraction: places where people go for entertainment, leisure, or curiosity", which would be brown, but "community anchor"/"infrastructure" is probably more in line with current style symbology.
Previews:
UCLA (localhost link)
Gallup, NM (localhost link)
New York, NY (localhost link)
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