Together with the other design details, the shape also needs to make it unique on the display and clearly distinguishable from other icons.
We hardly need this from our legends and icons of the here and now.
A young Mozart-in-the-making can choose musical instruments from icons and click on a figure of a smiling conductor to hear his composition played back.
More than that, they transformed themselves from icons into institutions, converting the currency of their celebrity into industrial capital.
Having spent the first half of his life fleeing from icons, he spent the second half carrying them like a shield.
You do have to learn the commands, even if they are accessible from icons and menus.
Their unexpected treasures range from detailed icons to monks busy in active prayer.
This helps differentiate labeled icons from selected icons, but it also makes the label less obvious.
Alfred Hitchcock, who crafted his most sinister imagery from icons of comfort, would have chuckled.
From icons of war to icons of peace and hope, they transformed their lives through a shared passion: football.