Optical Effects in User Interfaces  

My boss sent me this article, and I thought it was so well done. Slava Shestopalov for Muzli:

What is bigger: a 400-pixel square or a 400-pixel circle? Geometrically speaking, their width and height are equal. But look at the picture below. Our eyes immediately detect that the square outweighs the circle.

Now that I’m working full time as a web designer, I’ve been more and more interested in designing my own custom icon sets for clients’s websites. It can be tough making icons in a collection look balanced, especially when they’re all sorts of different shapes. This piece has a lot of tips and tricks I thought were useful.

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