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@Riot Summoner Icon Designers

Ice Weasel X·11/2/2018, 1:03:20 PM·34 votes·19,784 views

Please remember that icons are displayed within a circular border. When you create icons that are supposed to be distinct from each other, don't design them with the biggest differences around the square edges. For example, take a look at the Bewitching Janna icons. The golden chroma version is an event-exclusive variant, so you'd think it would be noticeably different.

The icon selection interfaces are misleading, since they display the full square icons.

Clicking on your Summoner Icon at the top right of the client shows this: https://i.imgur.com/38Zxv7L.png

Going to the Icons section of your Collection shows this: https://i.imgur.com/NIfOmY2.png

They look nice and distinct there, don't they? But where do most people see your summoner icon? They aren't looking through the icon selection menu and admiring the full art.

Other people see your icon...

...on the friends list: https://i.imgur.com/w5xzJtI.png

...while hovering over your entry on the friends list: https://i.imgur.com/6tlLJfb.png

...on your profile: https://i.imgur.com/SvXPAIE.png

...in the pre-game lobby: https://i.imgur.com/6yzMkxP.png

...on the loading screen: https://i.imgur.com/pmYwGPK.png

The difference between the two icons seems pretty clear there, right? But wait, we have the preview of how summoner icons will be displayed with next year's loading screen: https://i.imgur.com/xlFaAe4.jpg

It's a circular border, just like every other game/client display other than the selection screens.

The whole point of having such a large number of summoner icons is so that people can customize their accounts and look different. Can you please keep that in mind and not place the most distinguishing features of icons in the corners?

8 Comments

Oleandervine11/2/2018, 2:08:03 PM19 votes

I personally don't like that they simply gave a gold border to icons to make them "special" for the event. I would have much preferred something unique, like the face from the splash or something that wasn't just a copy/paste of the standard icon.

Zig ot011/2/2018, 1:51:25 PM4 votes

dude, this isnt how the icon will be displayed on the loading screen at all. This is a concept art, and I'm pretty sure this is the banner showed on the pregame lobby, since ... it's a banner you know.

The new loading screen concept is actually what is showed at the right of this banner concept, you know the thing that shows your champion, your skin, your summoner spells, your loading progress.. what is actually the loading screen..

If this concept art was actually the new loading screen, the first issue would not be the shape of the icon, but it would be why the fuck it doesn't show your champion, skin, summoner spells, loading progress, etc.. all the informations that make the loading screen useful.