Icon (computing) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-13

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00:01:10 1 Overview
00:05:06 2 Types
00:05:15 2.1 Standardized electrical device symbols
00:07:31 2.2 Metaphorical icons
00:08:29 2.3 The Desktop metaphor
00:11:15 2.4 Brand icons for commercial software
00:12:23 2.5 Overlay icons
00:13:02 3 Placement and spacing
00:14:53 4 Design
00:15:39 4.1 Shape
00:16:10 4.2 Color
00:16:47 4.3 Size and scalability
00:17:48 4.4 Motion
00:18:52 4.5 Localization
00:19:20 4.6 Cultural context
00:19:49 5 Related visual tools
00:20:16 5.1 Windows
00:20:53 5.2 Control widgets
00:21:58 5.3 Emoticons
00:23:26 5.4 Hyperlinks
00:24:10 6 Icon creation
00:24:48 6.1 Tools
00:27:24 6.2 List of tools



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In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system. The icon itself is a quickly comprehensible symbol of a software tool, function, or a data file, accessible on the system and is more like a traffic sign than a detailed illustration of the actual entity it represents. It can serve as an electronic hyperlink or file shortcut to access the program or data. The user can activate an icon using a mouse, pointer, finger, or recently voice commands. Their placement on the screen, also in relation to other icons, may provide further information to the user about their usage. In activating an icon, the user can move directly into and out of the identified function without knowing anything further about the location or requirements of the file or code.
Icons as parts of the graphical user interface of the computer system, in conjunction with windows, menus and a pointing device (mouse), belong to the much larger topic of the history of the graphical user interface that has largely supplanted the text-based interface for casual use.