Two app icons (Text Editor and Impress) next to each other, with the app icon base shapes overlaid as dotted lines. The text editor icon uses the tall base shape, while the Impress one uses the full height of the canvas, and the width of the square base shape, making it look much bigger in comparison.

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1. Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 02:20:41 JST Tobias Bernard

   In case you were wondering why the LibreOffice icons look too big on the app grid or dash, this is why: They're the full height of the canvas, instead of using the smaller portrait base shape.

   The reason for those base shapes is that we need to balance circular, rectangular and other shapes optically in size (e.g. a circle with the same width as a square looks smaller).

   It also allows for more creative shapes, e.g. having an overlaid object (e.g. a pencil) stick out of the rectangle.