Early Exploration for Office Monoline
Final Ribbons- Office Monoline
Client: Microsoft Office Monoline
Role: Lead Designer, Art director
Challenge:
Our team was tasked with the challenge of redesigning the Office 2013 icon style for the upcoming Office Monoline release, with a focus on aligning to Windows 10 icons. Extensive explorations were still required and included developing a grid system, line weight, color palette, color application, line spacing, simplification of metaphors, angles, outlines vs. fills and perspective.
We also transitioned our format to fonts which created an entirely new set of challenges and required us all to learn a new skill called hinting.
Solution:
Once the style was established, we created common elements or building blocks to be used in the creation of all other icons. This was extremely helpful in maintaining consistency between thousands of icons. Multiple sizes were created in order to support high dpi devices.