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Creative Deck

A twelve-strong pack of desktop app tiles for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, each rendered as a saturated squircle with a single flat white symbol. Every mark is an original geometric take on what the app does — a pen nib, an aperture, a waveform, a play triangle — so the set reads as one family at any size. Built for launchers, docks, taskbars and web galleries.

Creative Deck

Creative Deck

Creative Deck reimagines the studio's core apps as one clean, single-weight system. Rather than reproduce any logo, each tile carries a fresh symbol drawn from the tool's job — vectors get a nib on a path, video gets a play triangle over a timeline, audio gets a waveform — all in flat white on a hue picked to keep the twelve instantly distinguishable. Drop them on a Windows desktop or a web page and the whole suite lines up as a set.

Format: SVG + ICO + PNG. Every icon ships as vector source in Icons/SVG/, a transparent 1024x1024 PNG in Icons/PNG/, and a multi-size Windows .ico (16-256 px) in Icons/ICO/.

Using them: drop an .ico onto a folder via Properties → Customize → Change Icon, or onto a shortcut via Properties → Shortcut → Change Icon. The SVGs are the source art for web, docs, and app UI — they stay sharp at any size; the PNGs are there for anything that can't take a vector.

Container: squircle-tile — a rounded-square (squircle) app tile with a large corner radius. Every icon in the pack shares it at the same scale.

Icons in this pack

  • Photoshop: A fanned layer stack reads instantly as raster image editing and compositing. Photoshop (.svg · .ico)
  • Lightroom: A camera aperture signals photography, developing and light control. Lightroom (.svg · .ico)
  • Illustrator: A pen nib on a bezier path is the universal shorthand for vector drawing. Illustrator (.svg · .ico)
  • Fresco: A brush above a paint droplet says natural painting and drawing. Fresco (.svg · .ico)
  • InDesign: A two-page spread with column rules reads as page layout and publishing. InDesign (.svg · .ico)
  • XD: An artboard wired to nodes reads as UI design and prototyping. XD (.svg · .ico)
  • After Effects: A motion path with a keyframe diamond reads as motion graphics and animation. After Effects (.svg · .ico)
  • Premiere Pro: A play triangle over a segmented bar reads as video editing on a timeline. Premiere Pro (.svg · .ico)
  • Acrobat: A folded-corner document with text lines reads as documents and PDF. Acrobat (.svg · .ico)
  • Animate: A ball trailed by onion-skin rings reads as frame animation and motion. Animate (.svg · .ico)
  • Audition: A waveform reads immediately as audio recording and editing. Audition (.svg · .ico)
  • Dreamweaver: Angle brackets around a slash read as web code and markup. Dreamweaver (.svg · .ico)
Prompt

Generation Prompts

  • Concept model: claude --print — claude-opus-4-8
  • Glyph model: claude --print — claude-opus-4-8 (SVG drawn directly, not an image model)
  • Format: SVG + ICO + PNG — .svg (source) + .ico (Windows multi-size) + .png (1024x1024 RGBA)
  • Rasterizer: cairosvg, each .ico entry rendered from the vector at its own size
  • Container: drawn by the generator, not the model — identical across the pack by construction

Pack Prompt

You are a senior icon designer producing a commercial icon pack for Windows desktop and web use — the kind sold on Iconfinder or posted on DeviantArt, not a stock-illustration set.

Design a cohesive pack of 12 icons on the theme: Creative Suite Apps — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Lightroom, InDesign — squircle tiles.

This step is the concept only. You are not drawing anything yet — a second pass draws each symbol as SVG, and the container shape, the tile gradient, and the final document are generated by code. Your job is to decide what the pack is, who its twelve members are, and what colours it uses.

What a pack is

A pack is one category of similar, nameable things, drawn in one shared visual system. Think "Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Vivaldi" — or "Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Mega, OneDrive" — or "Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Canva, Affinity Designer". Twelve members of the same family, each instantly identifiable, all cut from the same cloth.

Name the real things. If the theme is browsers, name the actual browsers. If it is AI coding tools, name Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex. If it is cloud storage, name the real services. A pack of abstract inventions ("Chroma Bell", "Nebula Cloud", "Prism Home") is a failure — that is not what this is for.

But design an original mark for each. Do NOT reproduce a company's trademarked logo. Take the product's idea — what it does, its colour, its silhouette — and draw a fresh symbol for it in the pack's style. A Dropbox icon is a box or a stack of blue facets; a terminal tool is a prompt caret; a vector editor is a pen nib on a path. The set should feel recognizable at a glance without copying anyone's artwork.

If a theme genuinely has no real-world members (e.g. "Website Page Icons — Cart, Checkout, Orders"), then the 12 members are the concrete pages or functions themselves, still named plainly.

The shared visual system

Pick ONE container shape for the whole pack. The renderer draws it for you, identically on all twelve — you only choose which one fits the theme:

container Use it for
squircle-tile app icons, browsers, mobile/desktop apps, AI tools
folder-tab anything described as a folder pack — Windows folder icons
circle-badge social, profile, status, round-dock sets
rounded-square system/utility/taskbar icons, settings panels
drive-block storage, backup, drives, sync services
bare-glyph page/UI icons meant to sit inline in a web layout

Colour

The pack is two-tone by design, and that is what makes it read as a set:

  • Each icon gets its own tile_color — the container behind it. This is where a member's identity lives: Firefox orange, Dropbox blue, Spotify green. Pick a saturated, distinguishable hex per icon; no two should be near-identical, and all twelve should look like one palette family rather than a random assortment.
  • The whole pack shares ONE glyph_color — the symbol drawn on top of every tile. Almost always #FFFFFF; use a very dark neutral (e.g. #1A1A22) only if the pack's tiles are all pale.
  • For a bare-glyph pack there is no tile, so tile_color becomes the symbol's own colour and glyph_color is ignored.

Every colour must be a plain 6-digit hex string like #3B82F6.

Describing each symbol

Each icon's glyph_brief is an instruction to whoever draws it, in flat geometric terms — what shapes, in what arrangement. "A rounded upward chevron over a horizontal baseline bar" is useful; "a beautiful modern representation of growth" is not. Keep every brief phrased the same way and at the same level of detail, so the twelve come out at one optical weight.

Two hard constraints on what you may ask for, because the drawing pass is validated against them:

  • No lettering. The renderer has no fonts. If a member is best known by a letter, describe the letterform as geometry ("two vertical bars joined by a crossbar") or pick a non-letter symbol instead.
  • One colour per symbol. The symbol is drawn in the pack's single glyph_color, with transparency as the only available second shade. Do not ask for a multi-colour symbol.

Return a JSON object

  • "title" — a catchy name for the pack.
  • "slug" — a kebab-case slug.
  • "description" — 2-3 sentences on the pack's style and what it is for.
  • "introduction" — a short intro paragraph for the pack's documentation.
  • "metadata":
    • "style" — the visual style in a few words (e.g. "Flat vector, solid fills, single-weight symbols").
    • "container" — exactly one of: squircle-tile, folder-tab, circle-badge, rounded-square, drive-block, bare-glyph.
    • "glyph_color" — the one hex colour every symbol is drawn in.
    • "palette" — the tile colour family in a phrase (e.g. "saturated brand hues, one per member").
    • "keywords" — a list of 5 keywords.
  • "icons" — a list of 12 objects, each with:
    • "name" — the thing itself, named plainly ("Firefox", "Google Drive", "Checkout").
    • "concept" — one line on what the symbol shows and why it reads as that thing.
    • "glyph_brief" — the flat geometric description of this one symbol, per the section above.
    • "tile_color" — this icon's container hex.
  • "caption" — a short notification caption (e.g. "12 flat-vector browser icons in SVG, ICO and PNG.").

Return the JSON object and nothing else.

Drawing Contract (the glyph call)

You are drawing the SYMBOLS for a cohesive icon pack as SVG.

Pack: Creative Deck
Theme: Creative Suite Apps — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Lightroom, InDesign — squircle tiles
Style: Flat vector, solid fills, single-weight white symbols on saturated squircle tiles
Container: every icon is placed by our renderer inside a rounded-square (squircle) app tile with a large corner radius. YOU DO NOT DRAW THE CONTAINER, the tile, the background, or any border — those already exist. Draw only the symbol that sits inside.

## Rules — these are enforced by a validator, not by review

1. Draw each symbol in a plain square coordinate box from 0,0 to 100,100. Use the whole box; our renderer scales and centers it into the container for you.
2. Output BARE SVG shape elements only: `<path>`, `<circle>`, `<rect>`, `<ellipse>`, `<polygon>`, `<polyline>`, `<line>`, `<g>`. No `<svg>` wrapper, no XML declaration, no comments, no markdown fences.
3. **No `<text>` or `<tspan>`, ever.** The rasterizer has no fonts — a text element renders as nothing. If an icon needs a letterform, draw the letter as filled `<path>`/`<rect>` geometry.
4. No `<image>`, `<script>`, `<style>`, `<foreignObject>`, and no `href`/`src` pointing anywhere external. Nothing may be fetched at render time.
5. Colour: the symbol's default fill is already set to `#FFFFFF` by the renderer, so plain shapes need no fill attribute. You MAY set `fill="#FFFFFF"` explicitly, or use `fill-opacity` between 0.35 and 0.75 for a secondary shade. Do not introduce any other colour — one symbol colour plus its own transparency is what makes the pack read as a set.
6. Prefer solid filled shapes over strokes. If you do stroke, use `stroke="#FFFFFF"` with `stroke-width` between 6 and 9, plus `stroke-linecap="round"` and `stroke-linejoin="round"` — and use the SAME stroke width on every icon in the pack.
7. One optical weight across all twelve. Same visual density, same corner treatment, same level of detail. This is the single most important property of the set.

## Output format

For each icon, one delimiter line then its markup, nothing else:

=== ICON: <slug> ===
<path d="..."/>

Emit all 12 icons, in the order listed, using exactly the slugs given.

## The icons

- `photoshop` — **Photoshop**: Three equal rounded squares fanned in a diagonal stack from lower-left to upper-right, the topmost square carrying a small solid circle at its center.
- `lightroom` — **Lightroom**: A camera aperture: six identical straight blades angled around a central hexagonal opening, forming a ring.
- `illustrator` — **Illustrator**: A downward-pointing triangular pen nib with a small circular tip, resting on a single curved path line that carries a small square anchor point at each visible end.
- `fresco` — **Fresco**: A tilted paintbrush — a long straight handle ending in a rounded bristle tip — set diagonally above a single teardrop-shaped paint droplet.
- `indesign` — **InDesign**: Two equal rectangular pages meeting at a central vertical spine, each page ruled with three short evenly spaced horizontal lines.
- `xd` — **XD**: A rounded rectangle artboard with a small solid circle node on its right edge, joined by a short curved connector line to a second small solid circle to its right.
- `after-effects` — **After Effects**: A curved dashed arc rising from lower-left to upper-right, with a solid diamond keyframe marker at its midpoint and a small solid circle at each end.
- `premiere-pro` — **Premiere Pro**: A rightward-pointing solid triangle centered above a horizontal bar that is split into three equal blocks with thin gaps between them.
- `acrobat` — **Acrobat**: An upright rounded document rectangle with its top-right corner folded down as a small triangle, and two short horizontal lines across its lower half.
- `animate` — **Animate**: A solid circle at lower-right trailed toward upper-left by two progressively larger concentric outline rings, suggesting successive motion frames.
- `audition` — **Audition**: A horizontal row of seven vertical bars of varying heights centered on a shared middle baseline, tallest in the center and tapering symmetrically to the shortest at each edge.
- `dreamweaver` — **Dreamweaver**: A left-pointing chevron and a right-pointing chevron facing outward, with a single diagonal bar rising left-to-right centered between them.

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