: Material design icon alignment in its box for creating android assets I saw something in material design guidelines that bothers me - the way how the icons are aligned to global margins: The

@Nimeshi706

The Material Design Guidelines are, as the name suggests, Guidelines.

They are not concrete rules that you need to live and die by, they are an attempt to achieve a consistent visual language. If something in the guidelines is causing issues with your design—don't do it. It's as simple as that. The same as any other design tool, it is meant to aid you and make your life easier, if any part of it isn't doing that, ignore it.

Nowhere does it say in the guidelines that the situation you describe is what you have to or should do. The guidelines on icons suggest designing in the center of a grid. The guidelines on the app bar layout define margins/padding around icons in the app bar. But that is all. If you notice some of the icons in the example images are drawn in different sized bounding boxes (i.e. not all 24dp square or whatever you are using).

So in your situation you either draw the icon in a smaller bounding box, increase the size of the icon in the box or adjust the margins or padding around the icon.

Use the guidelines as a starting point and a guide for your design, but don't religiously follow every word written if it is hindering your design or process.

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