The best icon is a text label
http://thomasbyttebier.be/blog/the-best-icon-is-a-text-label
Let’s talk about icons now. They’re an essential part of many user interfaces. The thing is: more often than not, they break clarity.
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RyRy
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Bobby
Choosing the Right Size and Format for Icons
Choosing the Right Size and Format for Icons.
Ever wonder what is the best size and format for Icons? Yep me too. Here is a great primer for that.
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Freebie: Touristic Icons 100 Icons, PNG, SVG
Freebie: Touristic Icons 100 Icons, PNG, SVG | Smashing Magazine.
Cool set of free tourist icons.
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Bobby
Designing Iconic Across Different Sizes
Designing Iconic Across Different Sizes.
This is a great read about SVG icons. They make a good point about scaling graphics:
SVG is great because (as its name suggests), it’s scalable. This means that SVG images, including icons, will be super-crisp at any size, right?
Nope. If you’ve followed our Kickstarter project, you probably know what we’re going to say, so we’ll be brief.
It’s easy to assume that vector images are the salvation for legibility, but that simply isn’t the case. Even if an image is put together as vectors, it still renders on the screen through pixels. Meaning if your vector points land on floating-point numbers, your “crisp” image is going to show up with sub-pixel ugliness. High pixel-density screens will help alleviate this, but it doesn’t need to (nor should it) be a pre-requisite for sharp imagery.
Additionally, icons have optimal legibility ranges—just like typefaces. Meaning an icon designed for 32 pixels will often be illegible at 50% and appear chunky at 300%.
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IcoMoon
We should be thinking more and more about how to use font icons in our designs over graphics whenever possible… especially with the retina display issues.
This site has a huge collection of icons that can used as fonts. Check it out:
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Free High Quality UI Freebies From Dribbble | DesignWoop
Free High Quality UI Freebies From Dribbble | DesignWoop.
Gotta love freebies! Especially high quality freebies from the fine members of Dribbble.
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Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.
These. Are. Awesome!
There isn’t one image on that whole page….
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Iconic Icon Set – 136 icons in raster, vector and font formats — Some Random Dude
Iconic Icon Set – 136 icons in raster, vector and font formats — Some Random Dude.
FONT FORMAT too! Awesome set of icons.
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Bobby
Flat, simple icons for interface design – Owltastic — writing about web design by Meagan Fisher
Flat, simple icons for interface design – Owltastic — writing about web design by Meagan Fisher.
Good collection of simple icon sets.
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Bobby
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Icon Search Engine | Iconfinder
Icon Search Engine | Iconfinder.
By far the best free icon site out there. Their search features are great. If you need an icon look here first.
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