Hey icons, lighten up
Dec 17, 2021Jeremy Elder

Summary
This post details the iteration on GitLab's product icons, specifically focusing on reducing the stroke weight from 2 pixels to 1.5 pixels. This change aims to improve icon fidelity, balance visual weight with system fonts, enhance clarity for users with visual impairments, mitigate the 'bleeding' effect in dark UIs, address concerns about display resolution, increase consistency with marketing iconography, and streamline asset creation by leveraging Figma's boolean unions and reusable components. The post also notes the UI feeling 'lighter and more modern' as a subjective outcome.