1714329 - Consider using other letters than A for editor's Formatting toolbar icons (B for bold, I for italic etc.)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

In the current compose toolbar we have 6 A's. It seems rather commonplace to use other letters as well: e.g. Gmail and also phabricator does that.

So B for the Bold button and I for the Italic button. U for Underline.
Commonly also T is used instead of A for the text size.

Comment 1

[Henry Wilkes (they/them) [:henry-x]]

I agree that this would make each symbol stand out against each other. But how well does this work in non-English languages though?

Using a single letter is more language independent; you don't even necessarily need to use the Roman alphabet to derive the meaning from the differences between how the A symbol is presented in each icon.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It doesn't appear to stop other people from using it, so seems it's not too much of a concern. In the end these are just icons and do not have to have meaning.

LibreOffice is also using it.

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

I like it, and indeed I think it will improve the visibility and separation of those targets.
I'll take care of this and ping Richard for a review as he's the master of SVG optimization.

Comment 4

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1714329 - Update compose icons for Bold, Italics, Underline, and Font size. r=mkmelin,ui-r=Paenglab

Comment 5

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2021-06-07 17-49-59.png

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/6a6b7f25c6fd
Update compose icons for Bold, Italics, Underline, and Font size. r=mkmelin,ui-r=Paenglab