Questions tagged [icon]
Questions about icons; small graphic images or symbols that conveys meaning through visual representation.
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How to convert every pixel of raster picture to square objects in Illustrator?
For example I have 10×10px icon. I want to produce 100 squares with correspondent color and location each. Actually, the question is how to make exact pixel mosaic out of raster image.
I tried Live ...
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How do you animate SVG for the web?
Vector graphics are now taking over the web and even mobile applications. Icons, buttons and elements of web pages or mobile apps are now becoming increasingly vector based, dropping bitmaps because ...
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Best workflow for icon design: Start big, or start small?
When designing icons that need to be delivered at several sizes, do you start at the smaller size, then scale up to the bigger sizes? Or do you start big and scale down?
There's several advantages to ...
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How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
When looking online for icons to use on my websites, I often find very well designed free icon sets.
However, often these icon sets are only available on a single size - for instance the icon set ...
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New generation of Save icon that is not a "disk"?
Currently, the save icon in almost all applications represents a 3.5-inch disk from the 20th century. An example from Microsoft Office 2010 is shown below:
As we move towards more advanced technology,...
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What do you call these infographic icons?
What do you call these simple, basic types of graphic elements that are used in infographic commercials, and the like? They are vector based, look like pixel art, but have smooth edges, and are icon-...
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How would you represent "religion" in an icon, neutrally?
I am involved in a web application where items in a list have a category. Each category of an item is shown through the use of an expressive icon. One of the categories is religion.
My coworker, a ...
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What are some good resource for programmers to design icons?
I'm a programmer and find myself needing to draw icons frequently. Does anyone have any good resources for both the tools and how to design icons?
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Effectively creating this effect in Illustrator?
Been lurking awhile but this is my first post.
I've always wondered what this effect is called and I'm almost certain there's an easier way to doing it than how I do it. I'm talking about the "empty" ...
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How can I spice up my flat iOS icons?
I'm making an icon for a speed reader app for the iPhone. These are more or less the designs I've been toying with:
Looking at them though, I just find they're a little boring. With the iOS 7 ...
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Create an "pressed in" look
I'm trying to recreate a fairly common look, but I really like how it is executed on getpebble.com
The getpebble.com icons are on the left, and my disaster of an attempt is on the right. As much as I ...
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How to open or save as ico in Photoshop CS6
This plugin to open and save as .ico in Photoshop has been around for a while, but I can't seem to make it work for CS6. According to this question in the Adobe Forums, the plug-in works if installed ...
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How to achieve a gradient in adobe illustrator
I am looking for someone to explain how to achieve a subtle gradient in adobe illustrator like the one in this icon.
much thanks.
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What icon fits "navigation"?
I just thought about the this: We have dozens of well known icons for nearly each and every thing. All those icons normally are inside some sort of "navigation" (bar/menu/etc.). But what's the icon ...
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What is the best way to represent show and hide in icons?
I have a web page that has a list of columns of information. All columns have names and then some of the columns have items in them. I want to have an icon to represent
Hide all empty columns
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How do I create a cursor (.cur) image file in Photoshop CS4?
I'm using Photoshop CS4 and I need to create a .cur image. The actual process of doing so is simple enough but I cannot find the necessary Photoshop CS4 plug-in to do so.
Can anybody help me either ...
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Working on Small Resolution Images in Photoshop ( icons ) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
I want to get a solution for a question that has been in my mind for a long time.
For the past 2 years, several times I was assigned to ...
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windows 10 icons set
Didn't expected to get stuck with it, however it is seems to be a problem.
Is there any publicly available standard icons set for windows 10 applications design? (Something like here for material ...
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What is the standard way for conveying vegan and vegetarian as separate icons?
Working on a project, I need 2 icons for Vegan and Vegetarian to display at a glance nutritional information. The problem that I'm running into is that there doesn't seem to be a good way to have each ...
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Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application
I want to be able to create an .ico file containing a complete set of Windows icons (16px x 16px, 32px x 32px, 48px x 48px, and 256px x 256px). Is there a web application that can do this for me given ...
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How to randomly distribute a group of icons / graphics in a canvas?
I want to design something like this:
It has been established in previous answers that these are doodle graphics.
Some ways to make them manually are seen on here and here.
How can I make one or ...
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How to export to SVG from Illustrator using Artboards
I am designing some icons. To keep the proportions correct, I designed all the glyphs in one artboard.
Now, I want to experiment a little with SVG icons, so I want to export these icons to different ...
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Is there any internationally-recognisable icon or symbol for police?
I'm looking for something non-nationality-specific to visually represent police and policing. Everything I can find, however, and everything I can think of myself, is based on imagery specific to one ...
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Where to find high-quality icon sets?
I'd like to change the style of our Windows Mobile application to follow the Modern UI style (as in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7). While there are excellent guidelines for layout, fonts and sizes, I'm ...
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How to graphically represent time
I'm involved with a project that needs a few icons to represent some categories. Some of them aren't that difficult to represent graphically, however I'm having a hard time thinking of how time is ...
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How to create proper Vector Images that can be used as an Android Vector-Drawable?
I'm quite new to creating vector images. I started to learn how the create them because I need some custom icons for an Android app I'm currently working on. And here starts the problem. I'm creating ...
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Is there an icon for the word "ICON"?
Is there an icon for the word icon?
I am trying to build a website like flaticon, and made me wonder, is there an icon for icons?
Like there are icons for settings or database.
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How can I avoid icons with double meanings?
I am currently trying to make an icon that indicates a bike shop sells bike accessories. This icon will be displayed along with other icons, such as the bike types the shop sells and if the shop ...
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How do you create Icon Fonts?
Ive seen many examples of people using icon fonts but I am wondering what is the best way to execute this process. An example of icon fonts: Raphaël Icon-Set via @font-face. A tutorial I have read. ...
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Is there an icon set containing icons for different platforms/stores (e.g. App Store, Play, Windows 8 Store, etc.)
Is there an icon set containing icons for different platforms/stores (e.g. App Store, Play, Windows 8 Store, etc.)?
I am interested in grayscale icons similar to Glyphish and Glyphicons.
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How to group ico files
A while ago I noticed some .ico files actually came in "packs" that contained the same image in different sizes. I now need to create one of those packs (I have 10 different sizes). Do I need a ...
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What are some good tools to create 3D icons?
I really like icons like those created by SoftFacade.com:
I read the interview from one of their founders, where he mentions that they use "3d tools" without going into specifics.
Now I am looking ...
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Which is better for icon design: vector graphics or raster graphics?
Which of the following approaches should I take to design icons in many resolutions?
Create them in vector graphics, as SVG or AI and then rasterize them
Design them directly as bitmap graphics (BMP,...
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Critique my logo please
I asked for a critique on my personal logo before and got an amazing response from you guys. thank you! So i abandoned that idea and now have created this new logo.
Basically, I am a graphic ...
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What is the best practice for laying out and exporting custom icons from AI?
I'm working on creating completely custom icons with AI and essentially exporting them out as an individual svg icons to be used in our app development.
I have been experimenting with different ways ...
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Free pixel icon sets on the web?
where I can find very small and clear icons that I can use in a personal (non-commercial) project?
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Android Icon Tutorials
I've been trying to find tutorial on to make android icons as for the 2.0+/3.0+ specifications. I've found some based on the old 1.x specs but these are quite outdated. Does anyone have anything out ...
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Why does it seem Photoshop is the common answer to icon design instead of Illustrator?
Icons are usually needed in a variety of sizes, so I don't understand why I always hear/see everyone using Photoshop for their icons. Probably I'm exposing my PS ignorance with this question, but aren'...
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Is there a way to extrude an image in Photoshop?
I want to create a new icon for my application according to the new Android Design Guidelines. Is there any way to get my 2D silhouette and automatically extrude it to create the 3D effect?
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Opinion on the icon of the logo please :)
I am rebranding my personal work. I used to work with the name of Miss Graphics but was suggested that its too generic. I have now come up with a new concept. I would like to show Dolphin to represent ...
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How to create a 3D effect in Inkscape as required by the Android Design Guidelines?
In the Iconography section if the Android Design Guide they describe the following style that should be used for Launcher Icons:
Use a distinct silhouette. Three-dimensional, front view, with ...
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Why are Yahoo's emoticon's more effective at conveying emotion than others?
What do you think are the objective features of Yahoo's well known emoticon set, that they use for mail, instant messaging etc., that make them so much better at communicating user's feelings and ...
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Is there an icon set of cartoonish faces?
Commercial or free. Something similar like these:
Dribble: 3D Face
Dribble: Face Proccess
Dribble: Face iOS Icon
I want to use them in a web site for unknown gravatars/avatars.
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Exporting drawing for icon images to be used in Android for various screen sizes in a not too labourious manner?
I want to make a set of icons for android phones. The guide has a set of recommendations for the denstiy and sizes link to recommendations. What is an efficient manner to go about producing these ...
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How do I "cut out" an icon with a background in Illustrator?
I am having some difficulties trying to delete the space where I created a simple '+' icon.
Here are some images for reference.
I hope this explains what I am trying to accomplish. Sorry for not ...
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General name for these type of images
What is the general name for these images with lots of icons and small items sketched (or outlined), they are quite popular these days. Evernote and Whatsapp for example uses them:
http://...
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Remove substracted paths from shape layers and combine into one shape layer
I'm creating a wi-fi icon in Photoshop, using three circles and subtracted paths.
Now I need to remove the subtracted area and combine the three shape layers into one shape layer without rasterizing.
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How can I have a vector shape that is smart-cloned and kept in sync in Illustrator?
I try to design a vector shape that will render good at different sizes.
I do have an artboard for each icon size: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and I do want to "clone" my shape so I will be copied in each of ...
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Custom sizes in inkscape's real-time icon preview?
Is there a way to get a real-time icon preview at a specified size in inkscape? The Icon Preview panel found in the View menu seems perfect, except I can't find a way to get it to display sizes other ...
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Exporting various icons at the same size from Illustrator
I've created some icons, but they export at various sizes. We'd like to have them all be the same size, for use in our app. How can I export these all as the same size? Right now, they're exporting as ...