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Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by colmvp »

Osmium wrote: post #36
xs wrote: post #22

I think $40/yr or $2/icon is too far out of reach for me to use these icons as a proof of concept, blog, or early website launches. I have a website idea which would use about 100 of these icons, but I can't justify the cost yet since it brings in no revenue.

Likewise. Seems like a really great price if you're a designer, but too steep if you only use it occasionally. I use Noun Project semi-regularly with the CC licensing, but only for not-for-profit purposes, so $40 is too much. I'd probably pay a one-off fee ($20? $30?) just to use the app though, even if it meant requiring attribution for all icons used.

$40 is a bargain when you consider how many hours it takes for a person create an entire icon set. It's not as if illustrators are rolling in money here.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by fenwick67 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #31
gfody wrote: post #17

searched for "save" .. ten pages of variations on the 3.5" diskette icon all labeled "floppy" even though diskettes aren't floppy. I wonder when a new save icon will emerge?

The "floppy disk" always (even with 5.25" and 8" disks) referred to the disk inside the casing, not the casing (which wasn't particularly floppy on the bigger disks, and wasn't a disk on any of them.)

I always thought it came from the fact that the old 8-inchers were physically flexible.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by tinbad »

felixthehat wrote: post #25

I put up a couple of hundred icons that I'd drawn previously up with a public domain license. Here are the download counts and royalties from the last 10 months for reference: http://i.imgur.com/clNZWUk.png

Are you saying creating and sharing icon sets is not a get-rich-quick-scheme? ;)

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by wyager »

STRiDEX wrote: post #54

I read some designers discussing the filter icon usually being a funnel which doesn't do much filtering. It does funnel something into something. https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=filter interesting to see the other options that show up.

Here's an idea; four arrows moving right, towards a line. The line has a hole in it, only allowing one of the arrows to pass through. Demonstrates filtering and doesn't have any accidental significance from symmetry.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by felixthehat »

tinbad wrote: post #53
felixthehat wrote: post #25

I put up a couple of hundred icons that I'd drawn previously up with a public domain license. Here are the download counts and royalties from the last 10 months for reference: http://i.imgur.com/clNZWUk.png

Are you saying creating and sharing icon sets is not a get-rich-quick-scheme? ;)

Ah the halcyon days of September last year when I made nearly $40.

Still, it's free beer money, and a good enough way to distribute work to the public domain.

It feels good as a designer who's not able to easily contribute to the open source community.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by [deleted] »

tinbad wrote: post #53
felixthehat wrote: post #25

I put up a couple of hundred icons that I'd drawn previously up with a public domain license. Here are the download counts and royalties from the last 10 months for reference: http://i.imgur.com/clNZWUk.png

Are you saying creating and sharing icon sets is not a get-rich-quick-scheme? ;)

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Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by ORioN63 »

arjie wrote: post #21
everyone wrote: post #7

Little pictograms for buttons are often extremely vague and open to interpretation. Eg. Heres a random game where upon opening it I was immediately confused http://mobile.cdn.softpedia.com/apk/images/color-switch_1.jp... (also the icons are all animated / rotating, making it even more confusing, made this game menu stick out in my memory as an egregious example) Some designers seems to love the minimalism of if thoug…

> Imo Text is the clearest thing you can put on a button to tell the user what that button does 'save' 'load' 'new game' etc. Yes, it will need to be translated, but thats simply putting in more work for a better product. I strongly disagree. I'm looking at my browser chrome right now and if the back, forward, reload, home, and bookmark buttons were displayed as that, it would be _awful_. Even thinking about my IDE,…

It's about learning the environment.

You already know the meaning of the browser icons as well as you know traffic signs. On the other hand on a unknown setting, like a newly installed app, an icon can represent too many things for a person to guess which is the real semantic of the icon in question.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by shosko »

everyone wrote: post #7

Little pictograms for buttons are often extremely vague and open to interpretation. Eg. Heres a random game where upon opening it I was immediately confused http://mobile.cdn.softpedia.com/apk/images/color-switch_1.jp... (also the icons are all animated / rotating, making it even more confusing, made this game menu stick out in my memory as an egregious example) Some designers seems to love the minimalism of if thoug…

Sometimes text and visuals are both left open to interpretation. We use text and icons from noun project to double down on the point we're making.

Re: Noun Project – Icons for Everything

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Post by wavefunction »

felixthehat wrote: post #56
tinbad wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying creating and sharing icon sets is not a get-rich-quick-scheme? ;)

Ah the halcyon days of September last year when I made nearly $40. Still, it's free beer money, and a good enough way to distribute work to the public domain. It feels good as a designer who's not able to easily contribute to the open source community.

Thanks for helping society out.
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