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Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by hardwaresofton »

Do want to say there is quite a spectrum in the quality of free illustrations out there. I personally check out a bit when I see anything that looks like or is in the style of undraw[0].

The best I've found and go back to is ManyPixels -- their free gallery is amazing:

https://www.manypixels.co/gallery

The stuff on the gallery above is free to use, but I always feel a little guilty -- I need to actually pay them for something some day. Their pricing is intense but they put out great work.

[0]: https://undraw.co/illustrations

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by simonw »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #8

Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free? Have companies just become a leech on public with tax evasion and discount and private?

Giving something away for free is an extremely effective way of promoting your other paid projects.

In this case the project helps get https://www.creative-tim.com/ in front of a lot more people.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by systemvoltage »

These are the lifeless illustrations colloquially known as “Corporate Memphis”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec...

Originally coined by: https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by murtaza_alexa »

mtmail wrote: post #6
a2800276 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But ... under "Licenses" in the footer it says: "There are some things you can't do: -You can’t use our products to create Templates, UI Kits, Dashboards, Themes and Plugins that are distributed on your website or other marketplaces and they do direct competition to us. -You can’t deliver our source code to the general public through Open Source Projects without our written consent. -You can’t use our products to cre…

I think paragraph (5) of https://www.creative-tim.com/license?ref=iradesign-footer applies here "There can be different components in some of our Items that can have a separate License from this one, and other license terms may apply to that specific component. Usually, those components come with a Free and Open Source MIT License."

No worries! You can use the illustrations as you want. You can just give credits if you want. The paragraph from our license which says that you can't use products to create templates, and so on, applies to our templates (containing code), not illustrations.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by murtaza_alexa »

reedciccio wrote: post #2

The licensing terms don't seem compatible with open source. They're just free (gratis) for many uses though.

You can use the illustrations as you want.

The paragraph from our license which says that you can't use products to create templates, and so on, applies to our templates (containing code), not illustrations.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by Majestic121 »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #8

Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free? Have companies just become a leech on public with tax evasion and discount and private?

Some people like to be useful in general.

Others enjoy their craft, do it for fun, and make it available to the public in a nice way.

Another reason could be that it also provides advertisement for the person providing the work.

The 'money for free' angle is very strange to me : a lot of things provide value, it's not a bad thing to provide something for free, even if companies can use it as well.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

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Post by sunnyam »

systemvoltage wrote: post #16

These are the lifeless illustrations colloquially known as “Corporate Memphis”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec... Originally coined by: https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart
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