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"Warning" icon overlapping other on sign-in page upon inputting wrong credentials

When inputting wrong password and correct email in the Login page, I get a "warning" icon overlapping the show/hide password icon: When inputting incorrect email, though, it doesn't overlap:...
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Why are the site icons offset again? [duplicate]

The site icons (in the "Communities" tab, and in the "Hot Network Questions" sidebar) are misaligned. I've checked on multiple devices and multiple sites, so I don't think this is ...
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Use localized icons for Q&A in left navigation menu

On the recent update, we got icons next to items on the left navigation menu. All these icons are used for any SE sites. At the same time on localized sites, like SO in Russian, there are localized ...
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Is the icon update for accessibility purposes?

I just noticed an update on the SE icons (on many sites if it's not all): Is this for accessibility purposes? Or is it for purely aesthetic purposes? I'm just curious about the reason for the change
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Is there somewhere that I can get all Stack Exchange sites icons?

I'm looking for somewhere or someway to get icons like this: I found the sprites, but it isn't exactly what I want. P. S: I need the icons with transparent background
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Nonlocalized icons are used on comments from deleted user page

Instead of localized "В" and "О" icons I see the English "Q" and "A" on comments from deleted user page: On the other pages localized icons are used:
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1 answer
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Sites' icons appear shifted / wrong sites' icons are appearing

Just noticed that some sites' icons, both on home page and in "Hot Network Questions" sidebar are shifted and mixed with icons of different sites. For example, here, the Server Fault icon ...
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Person icon with drop down symbol in the stackexchange.com top bar [duplicate]

There is an person icon with a drop down symbol in the Stack Exchange header (top bar). Clicking on that doesn't respond any. What is the icon for? Screenshot for reference:
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The site icons in all the dropdowns in the top bar on the chat page seem to have... disappeared?

This is how it looks like on any page1 except the chat page: The site icons are visible here, but on the chat page2, these icons seem to have disappeared (the alignment is messed up as well): This ...
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New mobile chat is sometimes missing most icons on meta site chats? [duplicate]

I couldn't find this bug elsewhere. When clicking on a message there should be more icons. I've seen this multiple times, but I can't reproduce it now.
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Offer a sun icon rather than a snowflake for Summer Bash

If Stack Exchange is going to demonstrate more "hemispheric appropriateness" by allowing "Winter Bash" to be toggled to "Summer Bash", should there be an option in our ...
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What does the globe icon next to the "Questions" link mean? [duplicate]

There is a globe icon next to the "Questions" link on the left menu on each SE site: What's the meaning of that icon? If this is about public (around the world) part of the site, why is the ...
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Blog posts look like Meta Stack Exchange posts; mistakenly display "Meta Stack Exchange" in the icon tooltip

On Music, I saw this little bar on the right: This is weird. I don't read things closely and thus didn't see "Blog", so I clicked on it thinking "hmm, is this some very unusual announcement?" based ...
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Minor alignment issue in the blog pagination icons

There is a minor alignment issue in the blog's pagination icons. The previous and next page icons in the authors page, articles page are partially displayed in the pagination section, which is in ...
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The network sites' icons are not expressive [closed]

Every time I lookup the section Hot Network Questions, I must hover my mouse on some questions to show where the link leads because the icon makes it not immediately apparent what that site is. I am ...
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