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Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by mromanuk »

danijelb wrote: post #47
mromanuk wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on guys, literally took me like 15s to change the colors and make pale skin, I think you are missing the point here. https://www.figma.com/file/cS2mfgCHEtB9k0XpbZFCNkdK/humaaans...

Would you react the same if the set came only with pale skin and you had to do the customization for darker skin?

I will answer with a solution :) Actually, would be really cool to add some code to this, improve the website, with a small UI where you can change: color clothes and skin tone using some presets. edit: grammar

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by rchaud »

innerspirit wrote: post #42

Interesting how I did not notice any issues with the library until I came to the comments and there were several mentions of implicit racism. There is some projection going on here. Upon reviewing the site again, there are some lighter skin tones that I would identify with as a pale white man, if I really cared.

The commenters jumping all over the "I'm not represented" angle are likely the same people who would opine "identity politics is killing this country" if the situation were reversed.

Either way, these are SVG files and can be edited to switch out colors. That's the whole point of a library like this.

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by louisswiss »

rchaud wrote: post #60
aboutruby wrote: post #5

This is really neat! Reminds me of the style Airbnb, Stripe and Dropbox uses.

Now that this art style is freely available, prepare to see it slathered over every new startup promising an API for your SaaS that integrates with their PaaS and builds a future-proof IaaS.

Hope you're using AI and machine learning to do that on the blockchain.

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by fredley »

coldtea wrote: post #38
fredley wrote: post #6

This is great, and I really, really love the inclusive-by-default approach.

Where inclusive == everybody is brown skinned?

I noticed the use of wheelchair users, and the different skin tones used on the landing page. I hadn't looked into the actual resources so hadn't seen that they are not in fact offered in a range of tones. Oh well!

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by sigfubar »

Waterluvian wrote: post #13

Something's fascinating to me. Clearly there's a lot of diversity. But there also isn't. I don't associate with any of it. Not because I'm a green space monster. But where's the potbellied, grizzled 55 year old welder? Or the "I hate kale, more bacon please" mother of three? Everyone looks so... Chic and young and modern and... Silicon Valley. Is it the art style? Is that the point? Is that what the robotic "HUMAAAAN…

I've done my best to construct a "humaaan" that matches my own appearance (30s fat balding Russian dude), but the closest I got was the pregnant hipster lady. Oh well.

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by aaaaaaaaaab »

bane wrote: post #23
Waterluvian wrote: post #13

Something's fascinating to me. Clearly there's a lot of diversity. But there also isn't. I don't associate with any of it. Not because I'm a green space monster. But where's the potbellied, grizzled 55 year old welder? Or the "I hate kale, more bacon please" mother of three? Everyone looks so... Chic and young and modern and... Silicon Valley. Is it the art style? Is that the point? Is that what the robotic "HUMAAAAN…

You may be using the wrong definition of diversity. It's often used to mean containsminorities(thing) == true vs giniindex(thing) == high .

Yep, there's a difference between Diversity™ and diversity.

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by danijelb »

mromanuk wrote: post #61
danijelb wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you react the same if the set came only with pale skin and you had to do the customization for darker skin?

I will answer with a solution :) Actually, would be really cool to add some code to this, improve the website, with a small UI where you can change: color clothes and skin tone using some presets. edit: grammar

I agree

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by theon144 »

Nice! This came at just the right time for me too.

I find the general attitude in this comment section curious, though; lots of people are arguing about the skin tone choice which is notably brown. Yet I feel that if it were lighter in shade, there would be much less grumbling and criticism about not including every single possible body shape?

Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

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Post by gus_massa »

detaro wrote: post #16
gus_massa wrote: post #3

Is it possible to add beard to the drawings? Is there an online version that is posible to use without installing the library in my machine?

https://ozgrozer.github.io/hdt/

Thanks! I don't understand something: Is this a full demo, or an example with only a few features / images?

This demo doesn't have autosnap (I'm not sure about the official name).

Also, I can't change the color of the hair, but it is not clear if it is possible in the original version.

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