# Q for the devs/CCP: How did you guys develop the overview ship icons?

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**Created:** [May 25, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/q-for-the-devs-ccp-how-did-you-guys-develop-the-overview-ship-icons/243756 "2020-05-25T03:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aleph\_Morgan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aleph_morgan/32/174718_2.png) [@Aleph\_Morgan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aleph_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/q-for-the-devs-ccp-how-did-you-guys-develop-the-overview-ship-icons/243756/1 "2020-05-25T03:21:53Z")

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I’m very interested in how the ship icons in the overview were made, since I’m trying to design some icons myself (for a war-gaming tabletop) and had been looking at such things as the NATO symbology, and then I thought of EVE. What were the icons inspired by? Were there some icons that were considered but rejected? That sort of thing.

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**Author:** ![Scoots\_Choco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scoots_choco/32/262262_2.png) [@Scoots\_Choco](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scoots_Choco)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/q-for-the-devs-ccp-how-did-you-guys-develop-the-overview-ship-icons/243756/2 "2020-05-25T04:04:54Z")

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You’re most likely not going to get a direct response from current CCP since these icons were redone several years back. Here’s a devblog that kinda explains their thought process for icons back in 2015.

> **[UI Modernization - Icon Strategy | EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/article/ui-modernization-icon-strategy)**
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> Fellow capsuleers, EVE developers have been quite busy in the past few weeks working on gameplay features, which is good because that‘s what they are supposed to do! But concurrently, various members of these teams have also been working on a...

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/q-for-the-devs-ccp-how-did-you-guys-develop-the-overview-ship-icons/243756/3 "2020-08-23T04:05:03Z")

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