Our icons, made of real materials

The materials

Four materials, each with one job. Nothing else.

Brushed aluminium

the industry icons and the coins; brushing 0.4

Lime frosted glass

the Lansy squircle; 80% transmission, renders to #9CDE45

Porcelain

the palm on the squircle

Ceramic, unglazed

to try: calm, matte surfaces

• Materials come from BlenderKit, free ones, applied as they are; their files live in 3d/dl/mats.
• Lime is calibrated: a lime render is measured and lands on #9CDE45, never a brighter or a paler green.

The objects

• An industry icon is a Hugeicons line icon (stroke 2.4 on its 24 grid) turned into round tubes. The same mesh stands alone or sits in relief on a coin.
• Never generate the logo or an icon with an image model, and never redraw them: build them from the files.
• Small sizes keep the flat icon. In a tab or a chip use the Hugeicons line icon, its stroke as heavy as the letters next to it.

Light and motion

• One studio: BlenderKit's material-preview light, the same for every render, so a material looks as on its preview.
• Renders on transparency, laid on a flat brand ground: Lime, Primary Dark, Card or white. The object casts no shadow on the ground.
• Facing left. When a render must face the other way, turn the scene in 3D; never flip the picture.
• One way of moving: the Lansy icon's own turn: a rest, one full turn about the vertical axis, a small overshoot, a settle. Every animation is built from it.

In a layout

• One 3D object per layout: one icon, or one coin, or the ring. The full set of icons lives only in their strip.
• No marker or blob inside the render; the text and the blob stay on the page.

See it in use ↗