QuotaLens · marks · round two
Every one is a single icon on a 24-unit grid: square, two paths or fewer, no texture and no scene. Each is drawn large enough to actually see, then repeated at 24px, at 16px, and inside a browser tab — which is where it has to work.
All twelve at 16px, favicon size, in one row. If a mark disappears here it is out, however good it looks blown up.
16 × 16 px, actual size · same numbering as the sheet below
How much is left. The reading is in the shape, so the mark moves as you burn.
Ring
A circle drawn 68% of the way round. The most legible way there is to show a fraction inside a square, and nobody needs it explained.
holds at 16 · live-updatable · nothing else looks like it in a tab strip
Tank
A square filling from the bottom, the way a level sits in a vessel. Blunt, very solid small, and it uses the whole icon slot.
heaviest silhouette of the twelve · live-updatable
Bar
A progress pill filled to the same 68%. Wider than it is tall, which is the one thing here that fights a square slot.
the inner fill thins out at 16 · reads as a generic loading bar
How fast it is going — the thing the Claude usage page will not tell you.
Break
Flat, then the climb. One path, two segments — the exact moment the tool exists to catch, with nothing else in the frame.
cleanest line of the set · says rate, not amount
Columns
Three bars climbing. The most obvious “usage over time” glyph there is, which is both the appeal and the objection.
bulletproof at 16 · shared with every analytics tool ever made
Gauge
A dial and a needle. Says “instrument” faster than anything else here, and the needle can track the actual burn rate.
three elements in one small square · busiest of the four I would ship
The five-hour and seven-day windows, the unit everything in the product is measured in.
Dial
A clock face with the used part of the window filled in. Level and time in one shape, which is exactly what a five-hour window is.
very solid at 16 · live-updatable · reads as time, not just quantity
Glass
An hourglass, part run through. Warmer than the rest, and the only one that implies a deadline rather than a quantity.
the waist closes up at 16 · most decorative of the twelve
Brackets
A window with nothing in it. The most abstract of the twelve and the only one that can never be made wrong by a change to the product.
holds fine · but it says “code”, not “quota”
Worth seeing, and I would not ship any of the three.
Q
A ring and a tail: the initial, and read the other way a lens on a handle. The only mark here that carries the name.
reads as a search magnifier before it reads as a Q
Pair
Two upright meters side by side — the five-hour window full, the seven-day window low. Both readings in one square.
the small inner fill is lost at 16 · too much information for an icon
Battery
The one shape everybody already reads as “how much is left”. That is its whole case, and also the problem.
instantly understood · instantly a battery indicator, not a product
What four of them can also do
Ring, Tank, Dial and Bar each hold a value, so the favicon in your tab strip can be the live session window — you would know you were at 91% without opening the tab. Colour appears only at the threshold; the rest of the time the mark is plain ink. When the collector goes stale the mark loses its value rather than showing a wrong one, which is the same rule the dashboard already follows.
Shortlist
| Mark | Why it survives | The catch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 · Ring | A fraction in a square, understood by everyone, and it can show the real number. | Rings are common. Yours is distinguished by moving, not by shape. | |
| 02 · Tank | Heaviest silhouette at 16px. Fills a square icon slot with no wasted margin. | Blunt. Says level, says nothing about time or rate. | |
| 07 · Dial | The only one that says level and time — which is what a window is. | Half a beat slower to read than the ring at 16px. | |
| 04 · Break | Simplest drawing here, and the only one about rate rather than amount. | Static. It cannot carry a reading, so there is no live favicon. |
All twelve are drawn on a 24-unit grid with 2–2.6 unit strokes, inherit currentColor, and use no gradients, no texture and no more than two paths. The 16px renders on this page are the real thing at real size, not scaled screenshots.