Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by troymc » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 4:26 PM UTC

Clipart.com claims to be the "web’s largest collection of royalty-free clipart, … available by subscription. Subscribers pay one flat fee, and download whatever they need from over 10 million digital assets."

Much of it even looks like the old Microsoft clip art.

They also have a Clipart.com Schools Edition specifically for teachers:

http://schools.clipart.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by crisnoble » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 4:29 PM UTC

srik wrote: post #7

http://thenounproject.com

This is a good option, all images are svgs so you won't run into scaling issues, the quality generally very high, and all images are CC licensed (or public domain) with options to pay to waive attribution. The only tricky bit would be getting them into word in an efficient manner.

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by jeffpsherman » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 4:31 PM UTC

Try http://www.photosforclass.com/ It's designed to be a school safe search with easy attribution.

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by theonewolf » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 5:09 PM UTC

What about The Noun Project http://thenounproject.com/?

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by tudorw » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #18

When I was building websites in the mid-90's myself and everyone I knew had something like "250,000 Clip Art Images" on 30 CDs or something like that. It came with a giant phone book-like directory of them all by name. I'd be astonished if some publisher hadn't put that online even for some nominal fee. Anyone else remember this stuff?

yup, my little 'graphics house' created ~ 80,000 of the 'artworks' featured :)

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by boobsbr » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

find an old office disc, and get the clipart images from it?

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by godot » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

this is less clipart and more icons, but I loved http://findicons.com for making personal apps as most icons on there are free for commercial uses.

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by Someone1234 » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

crisnoble wrote: post #22

srik wrote: post #7

http://thenounproject.com

This is a good option, all images are svgs so you won't run into scaling issues, the quality generally very high, and all images are CC licensed (or public domain) with options to pay to waive attribution. The only tricky bit would be getting them into word in an efficient manner.

They appear to offer PNGs of everything in addition to SVG so importing should be easy. Although you may lose some of the benefits of SVG.

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by seekingcharlie » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 9:08 PM UTC

http://flaticon.com

Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

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Post by iqonik » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 9:29 PM UTC

Perhaps you should talk to/partner with patio11, sounds like a great product and relevant to the same market as Bingo Card Creator!