testsAndMisc/python_pkg/app_icons/README.md
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app_icons: tutor gets a lightbulb; generate --web writes PWA icons
New `lightbulb` glyph (filled bulb over a two-bar screw base) in a new
_glyph_art_extra.py module, registered for ~/src/tutor/app. `generate
--web` overwrites a Flutter app's web/favicon.png and web/icons/Icon-*.png
from the same registry entry; the maskable variants reuse the full render
because SAFE_BOX fits inside the 40% maskable safe circle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YADHKXzZhhePzQ2rNoXFcK
2026-10-12 17:18:05 +02:00

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app_icons — shared launcher icons for the Flutter apps

One icon family across every Flutter/Dart app: a charcoal #211D1B field with a single glyph in the shared unified-design-system accent (#B8862E), drawn at one stroke weight and optically centred so a row of them lines up.

Commands

# what is registered
PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc python3 -m python_pkg.app_icons list

# contact sheet for visual review: full size / circle-masked / 48dp
PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc python3 -m python_pkg.app_icons preview -o /tmp/sheet.png

# write assets into every app repo and rebuild the Android mipmaps
PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc python3 -m python_pkg.app_icons generate --android

# one app, plus the hicolor PNGs for a Linux desktop target
PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc python3 -m python_pkg.app_icons \
    generate --app todo --android --linux-out ~/src/todo/linux/icons

# overwrite web/favicon.png + web/icons/Icon-*.png (apps with a web/ dir);
# the maskable ones are safe because SAFE_BOX fits the 40% maskable circle
PYTHONPATH=~/src/testsAndMisc python3 -m python_pkg.app_icons \
    generate --app tutor --android --web

What gets written

Per app, into <repo>/assets/icon/:

Layer Purpose
icon Charcoal field + glyph. Legacy square launcher icon and Linux icon.
icon_foreground Glyph only, transparent. Adaptive-icon foreground layer.
icon_monochrome Glyph only, white. Android 13+ themed icons.

Both an .svg source and a 1024px .png are written for each, so a build never needs rsvg-convert. flutter_launcher_icons then turns the PNGs into the density buckets and mipmap-anydpi-v26/ic_launcher.xml.

Design constraints that bite

  • Negative space ≥ half the stroke weight. Strokes closer than that merge into a solid blob at launcher size. A fork whose tines sat exactly one stroke width apart rendered as a tulip.
  • Ink must stay inside the 560px safe box. Android masks adaptive icons to roughly the inner 66% of the canvas. generate warns when a glyph overflows.
  • Stroked outlines can read wrong. A stroked three-tine fork reads as a trident; a filled fork-and-knife pair reads as cutlery. Prefer a filled silhouette when the outline is ambiguous.
  • Glyph positioning inside the fragment is irrelevant — render.centre_offset measures the rendered ink and recentres it. Only the extents matter.

Adding an app

See the app-icon skill (~/.claude/skills/app-icon/SKILL.md) for the full procedure. In short: add a glyph to glyphs.py, register the app in apps.py, wire flutter_launcher_icons into its pubspec.yaml, generate, review the contact sheet, then verify on the phone.

Tests

cd ~/src/testsAndMisc
python3 -m pytest python_pkg/app_icons --cov=python_pkg.app_icons \
    --cov-report=term-missing

External tools (rsvg-convert, magick, dart) are mocked; the suite needs none of them installed.