Materialdesign: Carpool

[systect]

Based on the car icon, I suggest a carpool icon, e.g. showing two heads in the car, like e.g.:

[MrGrigri]

MD Guidelines specifically state not to do this. Is there another way that you can think of to represent this?

[MrGrigri]

Another commonality in the US is the black diamond for carpool lanes. We do have card-diamond, but not card-diamond-outline which would be more appropriate. Would that work?

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[systect]

Oh, didn‘t know. Could you share the reference, as I can‘t find this specific guideline? Thx!

The diamond symbol is rather unknown in Europe, I‘d say, at least in Germany and France. But a car with multiple people is used e.g. on French parking signage, so it seems to represent carpooling in a very understandable manner IMHO. (See e.g. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covoiturage)

So, I personally would not agree with the guidelines in this specific case, but I these are just my five cents.

[MrGrigri]

The image is a link, so just click on it and it'll take you to the guidelines.

[JamesCoyle]

I don't feel like that guideline applies here. In this case the second person isn't adding to the complexity of the icon as it is required. I believe Google are saying not to add unnecessary details where they are not required.

[MrGrigri]

What about account-multiple-plus?

[systect]

The guidelines explicitly uses this icon to illustrate the rule.

Though I‘d state somewhat more explicitly in this guideline, that human elements should not be added to illustrate a ‚car’ (what I think, is intended). Or find another representation of unneeded complexity added by human elements.

As an icon for a carpool, these elements not only amplify the meaning, but they are essential, IMHO.

Could someone (Google?) clarify?

[MrGrigri]

I believe that the detail is lost at 1x and as such pushes my opinion to account-multiple-plus for outside the US and cards-diamond-outline for inside the US.

[systect]

To me, account-multiple-plus seems not appropriate, as the + usually signifies an ‚Add‘ action not intended here and it would not relate to a car in any way.

I see the detail issue.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Would one of the account-multiple or account-group icons without a modifier not work in context?

[hbruch]

In my context, I'd not use account-multiple or account-group. Think of a trip description as below, where the user would not get the meaning of the account icons IMHO:

If the detail is lost at 1x, one might consider leaving out the person's shoulder and enlarge the heads a bit(?). I'd ask not to close this request for now.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

Maybe I'm missing exactly what that's trying to convey ("carpooling" isn't a thing here) but would car itself not suffice?

[hbruch]

This is the directions overview of our journey planner, which returns intermodal connections, including carpool and public transit legs. We want to show carpool (riding) legs and self-driving legs differently, i.e. a carpool icon for carpooling, and car for self-driving.

[goyney]

Here's a different take on it:

carpool.svg.zip

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Idea is from a HOV lane sign on I5:

[goyney]

Or we can go super-simplistic since it seems "HOV" is a recognizable term worldwide (inferred from this wikipedia article).

hov.svg.zip

[MrGrigri]

Idk about adding hov. I do like the car-2-plus icon. I believe that one, plus the cards-diamond-outline should be added.

[goyney]

It looks like in some countries, they have a 2+ or 3+ limit on their carpool lanes, so here's the 2+ one from above and an additional 3+ one in case we want to go this route.

carpool.zip

[CoDEmanX]

Never heard of HOV. I like the 2+ / 3+ but my girlfriend did not recognize it as carpool icon (her guess was that it would indicate how many cars can be parked).

[goyney]

Honestly, I do not think there is one specific icon that will indicate "carpool." Even the original proposal with two people in it doesn't really specifically mean carpool. A combination of the diamond and a 2/3+ might be enough. But really, this icon is going to depend on the context in which it is used.

[PeterShaggyNoble]

I think the car would work better than the diamond as far as international recognition goes but context is still going to be the key factor in them being interpreted properly.

[goyney]

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