Places Icons

Places icons are used to depict folders, network locations, and other places. They come in four sizes: 16px, 22px, 32px, and 64px. Places icons use the monochrome style for 16px and 22px sizes, and the colorful style for 32px and 64px sizes.

Purpose

Places icons allow a user to quickly identify landmarks in their filesystems. They indicate places that a user will visit frequently, such as home, root, downloads, etc.

Design

Anatomy

Colorful places icons consist of two elements — the monochromatic counterpart of the colorful places icon overlaid on a folder background.

  1. Folder
  2. Monochromatic Foreground
The base of a places icon indicates that it's a folder that can be navigated to.
The foreground of a places icon indicates the folder's landmark location.

Base

The base of a places icon is always a blue folder.

Foreground

The foreground of a places icon indicates the landmark location an icon represents. Its color is a darker variant of the base's color. For 32px icons, its size is 10×10px. For 64px icons, its size is 20×20px. It is always centered within the folder, and does not cast a shadow.

The foreground of a places icon does not cast a shadow.
Don't have the foreground of a places icon cast a shadow.

Margins

64px places icons have a top and bottom margin of 6 pixels, and 32px places icons have a top and bottom margin of 3 pixels.

64px icons should have a top and bottom margin of 6 pixels.
32px icons should have a top and bottom margin of 3 pixels.