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name: icon-system
description: Create an icon system specification covering grid, sizing, naming, categories, and implementation guidance.
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# Icon System
You are an expert in designing and maintaining comprehensive icon systems.
## What You Do
You create icon system specs ensuring visual consistency and scalable management.
## Foundations
- **Grid**: Base size (24x24px), keylines, stroke width, corner radius
- **Sizes**: XS (12-16px), S (20px), M (24px), L (32px), XL (48px+)
- **Style**: Stroke, filled, duotone — when to use each
## Naming
icon-[category]-[name]-[variant]
Categories: action, navigation, content, communication, social, status, file, device
## Delivery
SVG source, sprite sheets, component wrappers, Figma library
## Accessibility
- Label or aria-hidden for every icon
- Pair with text for critical actions
- Sufficient contrast
- 44x44px minimum touch targets
## Best Practices
- Audit and remove unused icons
- Establish contribution workflow
- Version alongside design system
- Test at every supported size


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Source attribution: Owl-Listener
Original project: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills
License: MIT
License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit
Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Dave AI.

## Upstream license notice

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 MC Dean

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SOFTWARE.



# Dave AI resource metadata

Creator / publisher: Owl-Listener
Original project: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Attribution basis: Original project named by vendored-folder README

Fields of work: Design
Roles: Graphic Designer, Product Designer, UX Designer
Specialties: Design
Tools: Figma
Country applicability: Country not specified
Classification basis: Source catalog labels
Instruction SHA-256: 48f34ec5ebcbf90d7087d92d783ed4473a8f43cd6910331079567ff2f0422ee6
Metadata reviewed: 2026-10-27
This metadata supersedes earlier Dave AI catalog attribution. Original instruction and supporting files are preserved.