Alignment Of A Play Icon

A little issue I know a few have encountered, how to align a triangle within a shape. Mathematically, centrally aligned triangles within a shape look off balance and therefore hideous.

However, I’ve found a little trick to align it visually. The end result looks a little more correct.

This starts off with the triangle centred based on Photoshops alignment tools, but it’s clearly not quite right.

So draw a circle that touches each point of the triangle, align that circle to the outer shape, then move the triangle into place relative to the inner circle.

Left is original, right is revised.

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