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UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#41
Very nicely done!

There was something recently about human-like illustrations that was too unrealistic.

I'd say these are realistic enough and general enough and as said above very nicely done.

2 observations:

1. "Pull request" really tell a story: it is not always effortless to pull in a contribution.

2. I was not able to figure out how to download vectors on mobile, just png.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#42
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really a stance of the FSF I dislike, redefining "Free" to something that was ideologically pleasing to them but that means something absolutely different for everyone else. Creating tons of confusion and not helping their cause at all as free proprietary software may benefit from the label when distributed to the masses as they heard "free" software is good.

It's not a redefinition. "Free" carries at least 2 meanings in English.

FSF's "free" is neither. You can't do whatever you want with GPL software and if you want to do those forbidden things, you can sometimes buy permission using money.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#43

I have used undraw.co and the illustrations are plenty, neat, and customizable to a degree. For something that's royalty-free, it is an incredible body of work. Here are some more related resources I've seen recommended by others: Photoshop but for Illustrations (paid): https://www.drawkit.io/peach https://icons8.com/ouch https://www.humaaans.com/ https://www.manypixels.co/gallery/

Another one I use a lot https://thenounproject.com/

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#44

UnDraw has become hugely popular within the design community. If you are able to recognize the style then you will start seeing the illustrations all over the internet. Thumbs up to the makers.

Yeah you're right. Some of them look weirdly "familiar" but I just can't put a finger on it.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#45
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It was the easier way to signal what exactly unDraw was back then when it was launched and since SVG images are code, it was much cleaner than writing CC(whatever) for users to understand. It remains that way but it will be much clearer in the new version.

> It remains that way but it will be much clearer in the new version. nope. open source isn't making anything clearer in this case. in fact using that word made me wonder what exactly the license is for this... still not exactly sure what it is.

It was easy to find and it looks appropriate to me: https://undraw.co/license

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#46
+1 to Katarina & Aggelos for creating and sharing this with us!

I often need graphics like these and my design skills don't match Katarina's so I am really thankful you give us the right to use the work in commercial projects as well.

Have a great time with your beloved one's and hopefully some awesome food :)

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#47
post #27

The license ( https://undraw.co/license ) of the illustrations is definitely not open-source: >This license does not include the right to compile assets, vectors or images from unDraw to replicate a similar or competing service, in any form or distribute the assets in packs. This extends to automated and non-automated ways to link, embed, scrape, search or download the assets included on the website without our conse…

You've never heard of people plagiarizing others' entire sites before? This is exactly the sort of thing you say when you're trying to make data public but keep someone else from slapping a different header on your data and pretending they did all the work.

The licence itself is fine. Calling that licence "open source" is what's questionable. It's almost like taking a term laboriously established by others and claiming it your own.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#48
I absolutely love what Katarina and her crew have done with this, and indeed I have used them in a presentation deck I created, but unfortunately, I think this model has resulted in this artwork becoming a bit of a cliche on SaaS websites recently.

I routinely come across sites out there with these illustrations now, and it is becoming a little same-y (check out @humansofflat on Twitter).

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#49

I have used undraw.co and the illustrations are plenty, neat, and customizable to a degree. For something that's royalty-free, it is an incredible body of work. Here are some more related resources I've seen recommended by others: Photoshop but for Illustrations (paid): https://www.drawkit.io/peach https://icons8.com/ouch https://www.humaaans.com/ https://www.manypixels.co/gallery/

Another one I use a lot https://thenounproject.com/

Love the noun project

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

#50

Bold words in the headline. I searched for "fabric": no results. then "textile": no results. "sewing": nothing. Try again :P

Search for the following, perhaps they're to your liking: people jewelry fashion modern woman shopping
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