: Critique: Amateur looking buttons with icons? I am working on a cms with the feature to 'follow' and also the option to see stats. There are 2 buttons, and the stats value becomes 1.2k etc

@Tiffany317

There is a certain point in a long design process where it's easy to fall into the trap of overthinking what you're doing. Different parts of the design seem like they could be better, you aren't sure how, exactly, but maybe if... At that point, you begin an endless (and pointless) round of tweaks that as often as not end up uglifying what was fine to start with.

I suspect that's where you are now, because that looks as fine to me as it does to Yisela and boblet. I would counsel taking a long step back, spending some quality time with the cat/dog/iguana, and coming back to it after you've put some mental distance between you and all the detailed work you've been doing. Look at it freshly, from about 9 feet (3 metres -- gotta keep up with metric) away, as if you'd never seen it before. If anything really needs a fix, you'll see it clearly.

There's an old artists' trick of looking at a painting or drawing in the mirror, to get a fresh perspective on it. This is a variation on that theme.

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