: Icon suggestions to represent "Style", referring to CSS styles? If it wasn't clear, "style" in this context refers to changes in the CSS, so things like font-size, font-style, background color,

@Kaufman565

Google use a capital A underlined and italicised in Gmail - - but I wouldn't recommend that. Even after months of frequent use I still end up puzzled looking at every icon every time I need formatting options: I'm just not ever looking for an underlined italic A when I'm looking to change formatting.

So my suggested workflow would start with what people usually are looking for:


Find out (or, estimate) what the most commonly used style change(s) by your users is
Make an icon based on that.


For example, if bolding and text size changes are the most common, you might go with something like:



Or if people often switch fonts and colours:



etc etc.

The choice of letter / character is important only in that it needs to be generic enough that it won't make people think the icon is about that. So a or A are good because they're obvious "default" letters. Other letters would give the impression of standing for something significant.

& isn't a bad choice, but might give the impression of standing for some obscure never-used function. Other symbols like #, % etc would definitely risk looking like they stand for some technical advanced feature.

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@Sarah814

{CSS} inside a document icon is the representation most often used for changes to a stylesheet.

If your goal is to simply represent "style" an "Aa" icon is most often used. However you may also consider using an artist palette as older versions of windows programs would use this.

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