I'd love to hear any other ideas for feedback!
https://api.accuweather.com/developers/weatherIcons
Often designers create lots of different wind and extreme icons (Tornado, Meteor) which will never be used and not enough subtle-difference icons (Mostly Sunny, Partly Sunny, Intermittent Clouds) which are needed. When implemented, we end up using only a small portion of a collection and repeating many icons.
The next big release will be integration with weather service API codes and other weather codes, and fixing some nuanced things like moon phases which are hard to conceive when you're in the depths of things.
As far as the nuanced subtle-differences, that's a hard one. When designing, a lot of the icons start to be so similar, or the same, they become multi use. Some user research I need to do is to see how many people would use "mostly sunny, partly sunny, slightly overcast" as 3 icons, or if 1 works. I am pretty restricted with the choice to use the single color, bold stroke icon style. Especially when they are meant to look good at 16-20px.
A "hairline" font weight is also planned.
This all leads to the question: Why use a single color?
But really, I followed Font Awesomeas I figure Dave knows his shit (also check out blacktie https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...)
Why are there clouds? I mean, its suppose to be sunny.
I'm curious - is there some kind of international standard for these glyphs, or just an emerged convention of what eg. 'cloud plus rain' looks like?
I pray we never see this in the forecast.
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