Icons

Icons are a family apart: SVG only, and a much lower limit, 300 KB per file. They are not there to illustrate a sequence, but to give a face to the game elements.

Importing an icon

On top of the common sources, icons add an online search on The Noun Project, a library of pictograms. See The media library.

You can also import an icon without going through the Media tab. The icon picker, wherever you choose one, offers to add a new one directly.

An icon’s card: an SVG of a few kilobytes.

Where an icon can be used

• On an item or a badge: its icon is what represents it in the reader’s inventory. It is required at creation. See Items and the inventory.
• On an achievement: the trophy picture. See Achievements.
• In a theme: to dress up the inventory. See Themes.

An icon’s colours

A line icon, in a single colour, takes the theme’s colour: it matches the inventory, whatever the look of the story. An illustrated icon, which carries at least two colours besides black and white, keeps its own. The editor shows you the icon as the player will display it.

Why SVG

An icon is displayed at very different sizes, from an inventory pill to an achievement screen. SVG stays sharp at every scale, where an ordinary image would go blurry. It is also what keeps the limit down to a few hundred kilobytes.