Materialdesign: mailbox-*

[psfales]

I believe the only mailbox icon has the flag up. How about a similar icon with the flag down

[GreenTurtwig]

This could probably be improved upon, but the simple solution would just be this:


mailbox-closed.zip

[CoDEmanX]

My first thought was "what kind of scale icon is that?". It's a little hard to grasp​ if you don't know what it is supposed to be.

[GreenTurtwig]

My thoughts exactly on the normal Google "mailbox" too.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Hmm ... does an outlined flag work any better?

Probably not.

[MrGrigri]

I don't like that at all. I believe that @GreenTurtwig did a great job and that in context it'll work.

[GreenTurtwig]

@PeterShaggyNoble Yeah, I tried that, as well as having just the lower half outlined. Tried quite a few combinations of things actually, but the simple solution always looked the best which is a shame.

[kumvert]

what about an inverted mailbox? I mean flag down essentially means there's no mail, so the mailbox could also be outlined? but honestly @GreenTurtwig has the best iteration I think.

[CoDEmanX]

Isn't it missing a foot to stand on?

[GreenTurtwig]

No, the stock icon doesn't have that.

[MrGrigri]

Update: Added *-up-* variants.

This is one that I came across. I know that we generally don't do perspective, but I believe it's needed for this icon. We have discussed it amongst ourselves and feel this one will work.

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mailbox.zip

[Templarian]

No secret that I hate the current mailbox icon. So replaced the existing one and added these new ones.

Great work on these @MrGrigri! 😸

[Templarian]

For anyone that finds this, yes they break the perspective rule, but in this scenario I believe it's fine to correctly convey the individual variations in an easy way.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Seeing as the old one was a stock icon should we not include it somewhere?