Location Icon

Icons. They’re popular. They help complement content (most of the time). And yet they can be a pain in the neck.

Once you’ve decided on a format (SVG or icon font?) and designed the set, there are still other considerations, many of which pop up while you’re coding.

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• One of the best ways might be to visit:. Marker, pin, position, navigation, location, Maps And Flags (at ShareIcon.Net) And copy the ‘FREE’ “drop location symbol” of your choice as I did in the sample and paste it into Word (See ‘A’ below).

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Here’s an excellent question that comes up often along those lines:

@chriscoyier#smashingconf any recommendations on how to align #svg icons to text?

— Andreas Sahle (@pixelmord) October 20, 2015

Tricky, right? Aligning icons can be a tough task especially if you are not the one charged with designing the icons. I have to be honest and say that I thought this would be a simple question to answer and one that could be done in a tweet. However, there’s much more to finding the perfect alignment between icons and text.

Thankfully, there are a few universal tips we can put to use to ensure our icons always line up beautifully with text.

Tip 1: Decide on an icon format and stick to it

I take for granted that there are other ways to do icons other than SVG. There are actually quite a few methods, if you include ones that might be considered old, as in, “That’s soooo 2011!” A few examples:

• Inline images

Regardless of your preference (cough, SVG, cough!), the format of your icons will have a lot to do with how you align them to text. Let’s say all your icons are contained in a sprite. That means the icons are pretty much set at fixed dimensions (unless you start large and use background-size to scale down) and it would be much easier to adjust the size and line-height of your content to match that of your icons.

The beauty of something like SVG is that it is scalable by nature and affords you the ability to reply more on CSS to help align things rather than the design process.

The lesson here: choose one format for all icons and use that as the basis for how you will approach aligning them to text. Your code will much more maintainable and your designer (or your inner designer) will thank you.

Tip 2: Use similarly sized icons

Here’s an ideal situation: all icons are the exact same size. Let’s say all the icons in a set are 100px square. That tells us exactly how much space we’re dealing with and makes alignment a breeze.

We also know that is not always a practical rule. Icons can take up varying amount of space depending on what we’re communicating.

The map icon is narrower than the avatar icon which is narrower than the cart icon. If you’re like me, then you will eliminate the white space around an icon to ensure the smallest file size possible. That’s great, but now we have icons with different dimensions. That’s a-ok if we’re working with SVG but less desirable for non-vector formats, like PNG. We can tell SVG to occupy a fixed amount of space without losing resolution, but non-vector will stretch and distort the image if we are working with inconsistent dimensions.

The right thing to do here is to match your icon design specs to the format being used. If using SVG, then the icon can be any size, but try to use a consistently sized art board in Illustrator (or your design tool of choice). This will help keep future icons in the set to scale.

If using non-vector, then always use the same dimensions. The icons may differ in how much space they occupy, but it will ensure your icons are always crisp and proportional, regardless of the text next to it.

Tip 3: Match your font-size to the size of the icon set

Icons ought to be treated a lot like typography. They’re either used in conjunction with text or in place of it, so setting the size of the icon to the size of the text next to it is important for the same reason we like consistently sized letters: legibility.

This doesn’t mean icons need to be 16px if your content font size is also 16px. What it means is being aware of the font size and making sure your icons complement it nicely, whether it is larger, the same size, or smaller than the the text.

Here’s an illustration of the difference between an icon that has been aligned nicely to the size of the content versus one that has not.

See the Pen MyxBrQ by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

The example on the left is much more consistent with the content font size and has better alignment than the right, despite both examples technically being aligned.

Tip 4: Use CSS to fine tune the appearance

When all is said and done, there is a solid and simple recipe for getting icons exactly where you want to line up with text:

Location Icon Black

That is the difference between icons that look in perfect alignment with text and icons that look slightly off.

See the Pen YqBdxx by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

Tip 5: Use class names for specific icons

The example above is great but you may have noticed that the location icon looks so gosh darn narrow and even further from the text labels than the music note. How annoying!

How To Make Icons

This is where CSS on a per-icon basis can bail us out.

Phew, that’s much nicer!

See the Pen QNoBVq by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

Wrapping Up

If there’s a lot more to aligning icons to text than you expected, then you are not alone. The simple answer is that it really depends on what method you choose to create the icons. The CSS is pretty straightforward from there.

The answer to this question inly pertained to text but there are other elements where aligning icons comes into play, such as buttons, form fields, navigation and probably many other things. I mean, what about responsive designs, right?! Regardless of the scenario, I find that the five tips we covered here get me out of the weeds.

Summary :

In Windows 10, sometimes you may find there is an icon in the taskbar and it says “your location is currently in use” when putting the mouse on it. What does this mean? How to fix this message? Read this post from MiniTool and you will know some simple methods.

Symptom: Windows 10 Your Location Is Currently in Use

Windows 10 offers you the Location service that can tell applications on your computer where your physical location is. And you will see a round icon when any app accesses the location service to identify your location. Additionally, many apps including Mail, Maps and Calendar may use your location.

This icon means “your location is currently in use”. Sometimes it says “your location has recently been accessed”. It is annoying to receive the icon since you may be not happy with sharing your location for privacy reasons.

Now, we will share with you how to fix the issue.

Solution 1: Disable Location via Settings

The Location feature is useful for some apps in Windows 10, but you can choose to disable it if you don’t want to share your location with apps. To do this, follow the guide below:

Step 1: Navigate to Start > Settings.

Step 2: Click Privacy and enter the Location interface.

Step 3: Two options to disable location service are provided:

• To turn the location off for your user account, switch on to off in the Location service
• To disable location access for all user accounts, click Change and switch the Location for this device slider to off.

After that, “your location is currently in use” won’t appear.

Solution 2: Control Which Apps Can Access Your Location

If you only want to block unwanted apps from accessing the location instead of disabling the feature completely, you can set which programs are allowed to access your location in Windows 10.

Step 1: Similarly, go to Location in Windows Settings.

Step 2: Scroll down to find the Choose apps that can use your precise location section, change the permission accordingly.

Solution 3: Modify Your Registry

When the “your location is currently in use” icon appears, you can choose to edit your registry to remove it. Keep in mind that changing Windows Registry is an advanced process that might cause damage to your PC, so be extremely cautious.

To be on the safe side, we recommend you to back up registry keys first of all. Resort to this post - How to Back up Individual Registry Keys Windows 10. Then, modify the registry.

Step 1: Input regedit in the Run dialog after pressing Win + R keys.

Step 2: Navigate to the following key:

ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslfsvcServiceConfiguration

Step 3: Double-click on the Status key and set its Value data to 0.

Solution 4: Hide the Location Icon

If you don’t mind apps accessing your location, but want to remove the “your location is currently in use” icon from Windows 10’s taskbar so that you can’t see it all the time, hiding the icon is a good choice.

Step 1: Open Windows Settings, go to System > Personalization.

Step 2: Go to the Taskbar tab, click Select which icons appear on the taskbar.

Step 3: Turn off Location Notification.

Step 4: After that, go back to the Taskbar section, click on the Turn system icons on or off link.

Step 5: Find the Location option and turn it off.

This way helps to hide the Location icon and you won’t see any messages regarding location being used. Certainly, this couldn’t fix the core problem but just remove the “your location is currently in use” message from Windows 10. To block any app from accessing your location, you should disable it by trying other ways mentioned above.