Topic awaiting preservation: What are those symbols called?

I'm thinking about making an interface - artwork that looks like a cd player. However, I need to know what the symbols are called that stand for play, fast forward, stop, etc... so I can do a google search to see if they are offered as custom shapes. Any ideas?


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

in the time it took you to compose that post and fire up your web browser you could have made those simple suckers! Squares, rectangles and triangles right?! Or are you talking about something else?

yep...

custom shapes????



I have to mention, however, that they can be found in the 'wingdings' or the 'webdings' font, if need be...

but....triangles and squares.

Guys... you should know by now there is a method to my madness. I try to keep a "library" of shapes that I use a lot, such as the pill shape. I didn't want to make the same triangles and squares all over each time I did an interface. Just seemed easier to get them as custom shapes (or fonts) so I didn't have to reinvent the wheel.

It was also a curiosity question, if those symbols had a specific name.



(Edited by Moth on 09-03-2004 05:21)

God comon a triangle circle and few boxes you want to know what they're called there!!!

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Playback symbols would be my guess, after all I dont know...

You just want a collection of like-styled media controls? I get why you'd want to find them, I suppose.

Haven't got a clue where to look though.

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(Edited by White Hawk on 09-03-2004 05:38)

It's very understandable why you would want to keep an shape as a.....shape if you use it frequently.

You can save your shapes as shapes quite easily too....

If I had to guess, I'd say their names would be "play, fast-forward(or cue), rewind, stop, pause"

I don't know that I'd call drawing a square and triangle "reinventing the wheel". I think there must be some sort of complexity requirement to use that phrase

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I don't know that I'd call drawing a square and triangle "reinventing the wheel". I think there must be some sort of complexity requirement to use that phrase

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*laughter* You got me. This all seemed so complex yesterday. Guess I got stuck on a train of thought that would not let me change tracks. Damn oxycodone. Now I see why the warning says I should use care when driving a car.

Actually, the solution came to me this morning. All I have to do is create each button with the appropriate symbol on it as a layer set. Then I could drag the set to each interface I create as needed.


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

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God comon a triangle circle and few boxes you want to know what they're called there!!!

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I prefer to call them those

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Hey - it's not really that off the wall to ask if the symbols have technical names. I myself just learned that there is a name for the "#" symbol, and that name is "octathorpe".

Wow. I musta been living under a rock for the last, uh, several decades to not have known that. Oh well. Better late than never.

and silly me alwayl believed # was called a 'hash'...

hahaha i used to call it hash aswell untill i discovered amsterdam

I thought the # was called "sharp". I've heard several times C# being called C sharp. And Dictionary.com says so, but for the musical symbol.

[edit] Tyberius Prime: Actually, it's also called hash. [/edit]



(Edited by poi on 09-03-2004 18:15)

There are all kinds of names for it, depending on it's usage.

But there is always a "technical" term for things like this. THough whether it's octathorpe or octothorpe seems to be hotly debated.



(Edited by DL-44 on 09-03-2004 18:24)

Wouldn't you refer to the little shapse on the control buttons for a player 'icons'?

I recently looked up the spelling of octothorpe and found that each of the little lines coming off the square is called a thorpe, and since there are eight of them ... octothorpe.

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I recently looked up the spelling of octothorpe and found that each of the little lines coming off the square is called a thorpe, and since there are eight of them ... octothorpe.

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That's an interesting bit of trivia. I always thought that the symbol was called pound.

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Wouldn't you refer to the little shapes on the control buttons for a player 'icons'

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I suppose you could call them icons but then you get led into the argument of what is a symbol and what is an icon.

Not a bad little thread given it all started with a painkiller indused lack of lucidity.


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(Edited by Moth on 09-04-2004 06:23)

Symbol, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=icon">Icon.

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(Edited by Alevice on 09-04-2004 22:17)

Why not label the squares "equilateral and equiangular quadrilaterals"
and use "three-sided polygons" for the triangles?

they actually have a tutorial that covers the fonts/shapes including lcd fonts depending on what type of screen you want for your player

http://www.brusberg.net/1/tutorials/cd/cdtut3.htm

Open start --> command and type: 'charmap.exe' change the font to 'webdings' and you got your buttons.