Apple Adds Over 600 Icons To ‘San Francisco Symbols’ System Font
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Developers, if you’re on the lookout for new UI/UX icons, a simple click of a ‘Download’ button on Apple’s website will give you over 600 more.
After months of keeping it in beta, Apple has finally released the updated ‘SF Symbols 3’ for public use. Combined with existing iconography from previous versions, it brings the total selection of developer-friendly symbols to more than 3,100.
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“With over 3,100 symbols, SF Symbols is a library of iconography designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco, the system font for Apple platforms,” Apple details on its developers’ website. The accessible icons are available in nine weights and three scales to create consistency within apps.
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Designers can easily use and customize them by exporting the symbols and editing them in vector graphics editing programs “to create custom symbols with shared design characteristics and accessibility features,” the tech giant elaborates.
The company recommends using the font in navigation bars, widgets, toolbars, tab bars, context menus, or even as a replacement for images in certain instances, so as “to represent tasks and types of content.”
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SF Symbols 3 brings improved color customization capabilities, giving you more control on how icons would be adapted for your app. “Hierarchical rendering adds depth and emphasis to symbols using a single tint color with multiple levels of opacity,” says Apple.
Alongside this release, Apple has also introduced four variations to its San Francisco font family—SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, and SF Arabic beta—and New York’system typefaces.
To install SF Symbols 3, head here.
[via AppleInsider and 9to5Mac, images via Apple]
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