Pomme2Poule Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Hello, I'm trying to figure out the best way to design icons with Affinity Designer. At this point I've figured out that I should design my icons at @1x then export them in the sizes I want. But there's one question that remains. How is the best way to reuse an icon? For example: imagine if I'm designing a search icon with a little magnifying glass. This icon is intended to be of 40 points for both iOS and Android. Designed, exported, everything is fine. But now I want to reuse that icon in a larger one. Say, that it would be the same magnifying glass but on a piece of paper. And this icon is expected to be at least 2 times larger proportionally to the first one. I need to double the size of my magnifying glass. How would you do that? Can Symbols help in this regard? Because if I'm just taking my vector magnifying glass, copy it onto the next document, then try to augment its height and width, I'll get the good size but the strokes won't increase accordingly... And I don't see myself exporting the magnifying glass into pixels to reuse it on a vector document. Thanks a lot for your help, Clément Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krieck Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 On the "Strokes" window there´s an option to scale the stroke with the object. fernand0n 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pomme2Poule Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Thank you! That surely improve things! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 About the things you mention on Symbols, I made this iOS icons template, where I used Symbols in different sizes. It's one approach to get your icons ready from the start for various resolutions. Hope this helps! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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