Sign pictures, four ways
Every coach sign and catcher call we have, drawn by today's code, by two well-regarded free icon packs, and redrawn as solid pictograms. Grey dashed tiles are signs the pack simply doesn't have. React on the set you want on the field.
Today
Hand-drawn in code: an outlined stick figure with thick arms stuck on. It covers every sign, but at phone size it reads as clip art and the arms look broken at the elbow.
13 of 13 signs, 5 of 5 finger calls
A. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (flat)
Polished, friendly, full colour, MIT licence. But emoji are body parts, not a coach giving a sign: there is no chin, cheek, shoulder, sleeve or belt, no 3 fingers, and cap and bill (ear and lobe) get the same picture.
8 of 13 signs, 4 of 5 finger calls. 2 pairs look identical.
B. Phosphor icons (duotone)
Clean, modern line icons at one weight, MIT licence, the same family most good apps use. Same problem: it has a cap, an ear, a belt and a T-shirt, but no nose, chin, shoulder or forearm, and the sign itself (where the hand goes) is lost.
9 of 13 signs, 4 of 5 finger calls. 3 pairs look identical.
C. Filled pictograms (redrawn)
Stadium-signage style, like airport and Olympic pictograms: one solid coach, only the moving arm in green, cut out with a white gap. Solid shapes hold up at small sizes where outlines turn to mush, and a coach’s own sign still gets a picture.
13 of 13 signs, 5 of 5 finger calls. Ours, no licence to track.
Recommendation: C
No icon pack draws baseball signs. A sign is where the hand goes on the coach, and packs only have the body part on its own, so a pack leaves gaps and pairs that look the same (cap and bill), which is the one thing a sign sheet can't have.
Use Phosphor (B) for the rest of the app's icons, where it's excellent, and keep the sign pictures our own, redrawn in the solid style. If C isn't the look, the next step is commissioning an illustrator for 18 drawings, not a different pack.