Jira Cloud custom icons for issuetype - how to get good quality?

[Jimi Wikman]

As we can not yet upload SVG's I wonder what the guidelines for uploading PNG or JPG's are? No matter what I try it still distort and pixelate the images, which is a bit annoying as it looks really bad compared to the crisp SVG's.

[Soane]

Hi Jimi,

After uploading and cropping an image to use as the issue type icon, it is re-sized to 16x16 pixels in Jira. The more details the image has more blurry it gets, so what we can suggest is that you create a larger icon keeping only the main components of the image.

In addition to it, there's the following feature request regarding SVG avatars. You can add yourself as a watcher, comment, and vote to increase its popularity.

* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-43512

Cheers,
Soane K.

[Vivek Reghunath]

Regardless of the size you upload, Jira resizes icons to 16x16.

Display resolution for icon on a MacBook Pro is 32x32 px. So a 2x scaling is applied to our already resized image.

So it is better to not use custom icons feature. Looking at the implementation, Atlassian don't want anyone to use it any way.

[Iago Docando]

taking into account the target size when designing I believe the end result can be pretty good. I've made some custom icons in the past and I'm happy with how they came out.

[MahanthPrudhvi]

Hi @Iago Docando 

I want to try this custom icon feature. Can you share me any guidelines or size requirements to be followed?

Thanks.

[Jo-Lee Bertrand]

I've made mine 32x32 with a bit of a white border, saved as png. Best to have them as simple as possible as they re-size to 16x16. I wish Atlassian would fix this. The default set is not enough. Either fix it or add way more choices so that issue types can be distinct from each other.

[MahanthPrudhvi]

Thank you @Jo-Lee Bertrand 

[Jo-Lee Bertrand]

I've made custom icons in freeform and then cutting and pasting to preview in Mac. Not ideal. Even when I save to 16x16 they look a mess once in JIRA.