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

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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…

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

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post #21

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…

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

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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…

I was interested in ManyPixels, but wow, that is an expensive service!

From what you said though, it sounds like they might have a free plan, only I can't see anything about that on their site?

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

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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

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

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post #24

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…

I was interested in ManyPixels, but wow, that is an expensive service! From what you said though, it sounds like they might have a free plan, only I can't see anything about that on their site?

So you can use the stuff from the gallery for free! No attribution is even required. I'm going to update my earlier comment to make that clear.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wait... what? The MIT license applies only to the illustrations? The MIT license is specifically a software license and doesn't really work for illustrations, except to the extent that they make up the software's associated documentation. Can you elaborate what this means? I would have expected exactly the opposite: that the code is MIT licensed and the illustrations are under your custom license. The reverse is a very bizarre arrangement.

It seems to me that the MIT license isn't really involved at all here. It can't apply to standalone illustrations, because MIT is a software license, and you're not open sourcing the code. What, specifically, is MIT licensed here?

For illustrations you want something like Creative Commons. Those licenses are not software-specific like MIT is.

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

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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.

That's not how the MIT license works though. It says: "Permission is hereby granted, [...] without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software"

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

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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

Exactly (thanks never heard that term). Essentially similar to clip art or stock photography.

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

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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.

You can give it for free to individuals or place it on behance, and not just up for use for companies, but regardless of the specific site, I feel like it's being frustrating to see companies forgetting the social value of letting currency go around, and always asking for freebies, bailouts, tax discounts, laying off people to hire cheap labour or with lesser rights, I am not sure I am generalising it's just that its become a very huge weight on my productivity, I feel like labour is not valued anymore is not appreciated anymore and the only god has become the profit and dividends, and it's affecting my productivity and ability to trust people I work with, I am at my third job changed within a year and I started 2 weeks ago, and I already see conversation about hiring part of the team in Ukraine cuz its free and am almost going to send a resignation letter, other than unappreciated I am starting to feel dirty every time I am at a company.. I guess my post was just part of a deeper frustration that I am going through at the moment and which I can't see the end of
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