Lightweight, controllable icons
Many dashboard icons are drawn in CSS. Sun, clouds, rain, wind, pressure and humidity do not depend on external images.
This makes the page lighter and more coherent. Every visual element can be modified directly in the stylesheet, without looking for assets or libraries.
The risk of decoration
Drawing the weather is fun, but there is a risk: turning the dashboard into a graphical toy. Icons must help reading, not steal attention from the data.
For this reason, the graphics remain soft, with controlled contrast and simple cards.
When to use symbols and when not to
Some Unicode symbols, such as the radioactivity symbol or the micro sign in µSv/h, are beautiful but can cause problems if the file is saved with the wrong encoding.
The correct solution is not to remove all symbols, but to keep clean UTF-8 files and upload them without steps that corrupt them.
Highlights
On the workbench
- Keep the project moving without losing the reasoning behind each step