Google and some other developers have introduced us to what some have called the hamburger menu button and now the 3 vertical dots button or vertical ellipsis. What is the official name of these buttons/icons?
It would be nice if developers could consistently use a particular icon for menus. It would also be nice to know what to tell novice users to press.
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Apple uses the horizontal ellipsis and calls it the
More Options icon.
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "more horiz".
Vertical Ellipsis ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮
Google+ for desktop seems to use this as a menu for communities. The Google+ app
uses this icon as a standard menu icon.
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "more vert".
Identical To ≡ ≡ ≡ ≡
Google Chrome uses an image similar to Identical To and calls it the
Chrome menu.
It has also been called the "hamburger" icon, "hotdog" icon, Options menu, Menu button,
Overflow menu, Side menu, Menu drawer...
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "menu".
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For the 3 vertical dot icon, these are the most popular names
- Kebab menu
- More options icon
For the remaining, here is the list.
Look at this photo, it says "Kebab Menu" is a correct answer:
per comment below, sourced from Luke Wroblewski: https://twitter.com/lukew/status/591296890030915585/photo/1
At eBay it’s the kabob.
Also heard it called the snowman or sushi roll.
Not an official name per se, but I've heard vertical ellipsis referred to as "snowman" in SAS community.
We call it the "ant" menu. Guess it was a good time to change since everyone had just gotten used to the hamburger.
According to Reddit, more options icon and kabob menu are popular names. I prefer the latter as it goes well with hamburger menu.
Cannot say about the "official nomenclature" - infact I wonder whose word will be "official" anyway - but here's how they can be called:
- Horizontal stripes : Hamburger menu / icon / button ->
-> as per wiki. A name like "sandwich button" would also have been good IMO :( - Vertical ellipsis : Dango menu / icon / button ->
-> credits to this guy. This one I like thanks to the song from the super duper anime Clannad 
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