Not exact matches
To learn about each style, including who it's best for and how to
use it, click on each
icon below, or click the start here button to start at
square one.
It's trying to look like iOS — old iOS: Like Samsung
used to do before it got popular, Lenovo has shaped all its
icons with rounded
squares like an iPad or iPhone.
He first
used fluorescent light in a 1961 series of
square boxes with lights attached to the sides, titled
Icons.
Make sure to have variations on your logo —
square icons for any social media applications you
use, a favicon on your webpage, a version for either light or dark backgrounds, etc..
While the round
icon shape is
used by default, the Pixel Launcher also supports several options for customizing the look of system app
icons on the Home and App Drawer screens, including «Squircle,» «Rounded corner rect,» «
Square,» and «Cylinder.»
Visually, Android Go takes advantage of Oreo's Adaptive
Icons with apps
using a rounded
square icon that appends «Go» in the actual
icon.
The
icon is more consistent with Apple's current design trend — I don't see tiny translucent
squares used anywhere in iOS 11 — and it's far less obtrusive.
Some
icons use drop shadows, some
icons are flat, some
icons are circles, some
squares, some squircles, ad nauseum.
Nova Launcher
uses the same method behind their color - matching notification badges to tint the background of legacy
icons to better match their
icons, and for some large
square icons, Nova will simply enlarge the
icon to fill the Adaptive
icon mask entirely.
The Pixel
uses circles, Samsung
uses a combination of circular and
square shapes, and other manufacturers try to mimic Apple's rounded
icon design.
Within Android N, when
using any app, or even on the home screen, tap the app - switcher
icon (that's the
square one on the bottom right of the screen in most phones).
The
square folders and
squared apps tray
icon don't sit as naturally with material design's
use of circles - like the new instant action button in Gmail for example.
Although you can change them all to be round or
square using the built - in
icon packs.