Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by vertline3 » Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 6:30 AM UTC

freddie_mercury wrote: post #118

vertline3 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's saying someone who is very overweight, I assume. I felt he was saying it in a diplomatic fashion?

Okay, I guess I can see that. Would have been clearer if they just said what they meant. I live somewhere (not in America) where having 3 kids and hating kale means you look normal. It isn't some code for "very overweight".

I think you make a good point, and I think the idea was different body sizes may not be represented.

Also I assumed the gender of the original comment, could be a she, if so, I apologize. I use he in a generic way, but seeing your post you used they.

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

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Post by crisstringfello » Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 12:37 PM UTC

pers0n wrote: post #120

crisstringfello wrote: post #14

where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…

Most tv and other mediums leave out minorities, so now the reverse is appauling?????

White humans are a global minority, and I think the morality of an act of misrepresentation is independent of who it's done to and of how many times it's done. So, "minority" is relative, but morality isn't. What do you think?

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

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Post by tripzilch » Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

ajcodez wrote: post #51

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…

It either (1) looks like people you know, or (2) doesn’t look like people you know, in which case you notice everyone is young and healthy and happy (desirable traits). If you’re in the first group you definitely don’t want to see imagery of pot belly welders.

They don't have faces, I'm not sure if they look happy. In fact, not having faces communicates to me the complete absence of indication.

That said, it's a cool project but I wouldn't use it just because the art style clashes so much with anything I would design. It looks like Word clip-art, imvho.

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

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Post by jmknoll » Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 6:06 AM UTC

This is awesome. Going to add it to a project that I was working on a new landing page for today.

For a bit of constructive criticism, the name makes the project really difficult to discover. I remembered having seen this on HN a couple of days ago, but when I went to look it up, I remembered it as "Humans with a few extra A's or U's," and I had to Google five or six variations before I found it. One too few or one too many A's will not bring up your project. I'm not sure if this is a lack of SEO, or a function of how Google treats misspelled words.

Other than that, looks like a beautifully designed library, and looking forward to putting it to work.

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

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Post by Double_a_92 » Fri, Feb 01, 2019, 9:27 AM UTC

detritus wrote: post #30

fredley wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the skin tones are mid-brown, there is nothing darker and nothing lighter, though this would be an easy thing to change when using the library. Interesting how you single out pale skin.

As a blue-skinned ginger of Scottish descent, I'm unsure why his observation has to be 'interesting' - if by 'interesting' you mean to imply racist?

Is it racist to mention that "White" people are excluded, especially when diversity seems to be so important to people? I bet that if the skin color palette was more biased towards lighter tones, there would have been some bigger outcry...