Materialdesign: keyboard icons

Created on 9 Jul 2016 · 11Comments · Source: Templarian/MaterialDesign

I'm looking for an "escape" key icon and can't seem to find it. I'd love an icon set for each keyboard key to use when telling user which shortcuts to use.

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atsepkov

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Oh yes, such icon set would be amazing

Ekidoxx on 13 Jul 2016

keyboard-key-icons.zip

keyboard-key-esc
keyboard-key-ctrl
keyboard-key-alt
keyboard-key-cmd

casesandberg on 30 Nov 2016

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Can we have these as just the text? Not really sure how useful the black background would be to most people.

JamesCoyle on 30 Nov 2016

Wouldn't the background color be configurable via font color (at least in the font version)?

atsepkov on 30 Nov 2016

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They'd need something to indicate they represent keys on a keyboard; I think an outline would work best.

PeterShaggyNoble on 4 Dec 2016

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Command should use the apple-keyboard-command icon, IMO.

goyney on 21 Nov 2018

@goyney, that's not immediately identifiable to those that don't use Apple products.

PeterShaggyNoble on 21 Nov 2018

But the Command key is exclusive to Apple keyboards, so it should only convey meaning to those using those products in the first place.

goyney on 21 Nov 2018

Oh, yeah, true. Sorry, hadn't had my caffeine yet!

PeterShaggyNoble on 21 Nov 2018

We're actively trying to not include icons that are just letters. For these, while the letter combinations are obvious in their meaning for computer users, they can already be created by using our alpha set and positioning the letters you need together.

At this point, I vote to close this issue.

goyney on 25 Jun 2019

Esc can use an emergency exit icon.

Ctrl has an ISO symbol ⎈, but it's neither used or known.

Alt has an ISO symbol ⎇, but the one for Option (that upside down w/o the arrowhead) is more recognizable.

Command and Option can use the Mac symbols.

I'd also like a meta or compose key, but I've never used a Linux before so I can't help with that.