# Material Symbols Touch App Icon (Outlined)

- Artifact: PictoClarity public report
- Canonical HTML URL: https://pictoclarity.com/@pictoclarity/material-symbols-touch-app/outlined/
- Markdown URL: https://pictoclarity.com/md/@pictoclarity/material-symbols-touch-app/outlined/
- Owner: pictoclarity
- Slug: material-symbols-touch-app-outlined
- Language: en
- PictoClarity Score: 0.68
- Application contexts: Mobile app, Web app, Desktop app

## Summary

Framework output for the Material Symbols Touch App icon in the outlined style.

## Interpretation

Visible referent: touch app. Intended message: The icon must communicate Touch App in a digital interface. This Material Symbols asset uses the Outlined style in default interface contexts.

## Diagnostic

Assessing the communicative effectiveness of the Touch App icon

This reviewed catalog report estimates clarity for Touch App in default interface contexts. Scores are screening estimates and do not replace user testing.

## Findings

- Primary referent: touch app.
- Implied function: The icon must communicate Touch App in a digital interface..
- Metaphor type: functional.
- Functional meaning: The icon must communicate Touch App in a digital interface..
- PCS total: 0.68.
- Weakest convergence axis: Collective Resonance.
- External evidence context (OpenAlex, 2018) links the case to symbol interpretation, meaning transfer, visual readability; it does not replace user comprehension testing.
- External evidence context (OpenAlex, 2015) links the case to symbol interpretation, meaning transfer, interface context; it does not replace user comprehension testing.

## Recommendations

- Run representative user testing before publication.
- Keep the text label visible until semantic transparency is proven.
- Keep visible label support when scores sit below strong clarity.
- Validate interpretation with representative users before high-risk release.

## Metrics

- PCS - PictoClarity Score: 0.68
- STS - Semantic Transparency Score: 0.67
- CRI - Confusion Risk Index: 0.31
- VRS - Visual Readability Score: 0.72
- PCH - Perceptual Cohesion: 1.00
- RTS - Readability Test Score: 0.75
- SRS - Scale Robustness Score: 0.70
- BRS - Blur Robustness Score: 0.84
- TCS - Target Contrast Stability: 0.78
- SDS - Stroke Durability Score: 0.74
- SFS - Silhouette Fidelity Score: 0.65
- NDS - Negative Detail Score: 1.00
- BBS - Bounding Box Balance: 0.01
- CPS - Compression Preservation: 1.00
- PDS - Pixel Density Suitability: 1.00
- ORS - Orientation Robustness: 0.65
- CAS - Color Accessibility Score: 0.60
- RRS - Referent Recognition Score: 0.52
- FAS - Functional Association Score: 0.61
- SOS - Semantic Obsolescence Score: 0.21
- CSS - Cultural Saturation Score: 0.38
- ERS - Evidence Reliability Score: 0.38
- MTS - Metaphor Transfer Score: 0.40
- TDS - Temporal Decay Score: 0.33
- GDS - Generational Divide Score: 0.20
- CLL - Convention Learning Load: 0.30
- NTR - Neurocognitive Transfer Risk: 0.34
- SPS - Symbol Persistence Score: 0.45
- OBS - Obsolescence Signal: 0.19
- CTS - Cohort Transfer Slope: 0.00

## Evidence Notes

- External evidence not used for public claims - Some external references were not relevant enough to support public cultural or trend claims. Omitted: App icon similarity and its impact on visual search efficiency on mobile touch devices; OpenAlex annual evidence: touch app icon comprehension; Crossref annual evidence: touch app icon comprehension.

## Evidence Sources

- Material Symbols touch_app SVG - asset_source - https://fonts.google.com/icons
- What the App is That? Deception and Countermeasures in the Android User Interface - public_evidence - window 2015-2015 - https://openalex.org/W1582716752

## Public Use Guidance

PictoClarity scores are evidence-based screening estimates, not certifications or observed human comprehension rates.
Use this public report with attribution to PictoClarity and the canonical HTML URL above.