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Yea the heart looks like 🍑 -- I still don't get the new unicorn though. The pointy line at top right is the horn, and the squiqqly lines to the left is... (?) the mane? the body?
What do you think?
I mean, icons don't need to be extremely literal. As long as they represent something that others can (hopefully) understand, it's good. So whether it's a mane or body it doesn't really matter. What matters is that you can identify it as a unicorn.
I can identify it solely because of my recognition of the old icons. I doubt if I were a new user I'd know what it is. Someone in this thread said pushpin, it's probably what I would assume it was (because of the pointy line).
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I listen to The Trees and The Wild and Radiohead
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I recently read, and read before that the origin of the heart shape is based on the female anatomy. I have tried researching it and every source I find gives differing opinions on the matter.
On a Facebook page I follow they posted this but gave no source.
I like it, though I wouldn't have guessed the unicorn icon was a unicorn if I hadn't seen the old one, and the heart now looks a bit like a bum.
Yea the heart looks like 🍑 -- I still don't get the new unicorn though. The pointy line at top right is the horn, and the squiqqly lines to the left is... (?) the mane? the body?
What do you think?
I mean, icons don't need to be extremely literal. As long as they represent something that others can (hopefully) understand, it's good. So whether it's a mane or body it doesn't really matter. What matters is that you can identify it as a unicorn.
I can identify it solely because of my recognition of the old icons. I doubt if I were a new user I'd know what it is. Someone in this thread said pushpin, it's probably what I would assume it was (because of the pointy line).
I agree it isn’t very readable as a unicorn.
I did think the unicorn was a pushpin at first lol
what does it mean? I know that the bookmark button is a bookmark button. (lol)
what toes the unicorn button do?
I think it gives a post more of a boost, like an extra like button 🤷‍♂️
lol, maybe it's like multiclaps implementation on Medium?
whatever it is, I always click the three of them if I want to save the post
and only click love if I like the post
Now I can't unsee it...
Now I can't unsee it either!
I think we will now officially start calling our actions: bum & pushpin :)
Historically, wasn't the heart symbol always a bum? Like actually, as a deliberate medieval choice or something?
Ok, apparently there is some debate on that:
I recently read, and read before that the origin of the heart shape is based on the female anatomy. I have tried researching it and every source I find gives differing opinions on the matter.
On a Facebook page I follow they posted this but gave no source.
The heart symbol is most certainly not based on the actual human heart, but I always figured the other stuff was mostly urban legend....
This passes muster with me.
Thanks, now I can't unsee the bum in the heart.
totally agree u.u