Icon Clarity at Small Sizes
The icon's shape stays legible and meaningful when scaled down to actual usage size, with unified stroke weight and grid alignment across the set.
The five levels
Each anchor describes what separates one level from the next — not a general description of quality. This is the text the evaluator itself reads.
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Level 1 Below Standard
The icon loses clarity when scaled down, its details blurring together or vanishing.
Example An icon with fine internal detail that disappears at 16 pixels.
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Level 2 Approaching
The icon reads clearly on its own but differs in stroke weight or corner style from the rest of the set.
Example A thick-stroked icon sitting among a set of thin-stroked ones.
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Level 3 At Standard
A set of icons with unified stroke weight and corners, each one legible and clear in meaning at its actual size.
Example Every icon at a 2-pixel stroke weight with matching rounded corners.
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Level 4 Above Standard
Precise pixel-grid alignment keeps every icon sharp and unblurred at its actual on-screen display size.
Example Icon edges landing exactly on pixel lines with no blur.
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Level 5 Excellence
A complete icon system preserves both meaning and visual consistency across multiple sizes, from very small to large, without redesign.
Example The same icon reading clearly in a tab bar and on a large display screen.
Where does your own work sit on these levels?
Submit one work to be read against this criterion alone: your position across the five levels, why you are not higher and why not lower, three literal quotes from your own work, and one exercise with its success check. Your first card is free.
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Guiding viewer's eye with clear visual priorities
The five levels →Correct connection and shaping of Arabic letters without breaking or distortion, with awareness of script and kashida as an aesthetic decision.
The five levels →Laying out right-to-left for Arabic content: direction, alignment, and mirroring of directional elements.
The five levels →Guiding the viewer's gaze along a defined path (entry point, then secondary content, then call to action) using size, contrast, and position together.
The five levels →Using empty space as active design element, not waste
The five levels →Selecting harmonious color palette expressing identity or message
The five levels →Aligning element positions to a grid and alignment lines that give the design order
The five levels →Using differences in size, color, and weight to build distinction and focus
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