Icons & Imagery

Optical alignment

Aligning glyphs by how they look, not by their bounding box. Asymmetric shapes (a play triangle, a download arrow) need nudging so they appear centered.

A play triangle is shifted slightly right of geometric center so it looks centered in its circle.

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optical
Nudge asymmetric glyphs to look centered

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