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Silk is a fantastic set. Been using it for years and haven't found anything more versatile. Also recently came across the excellent (CC-licensed) Fugue set.

by teye 17y ago

Silk is a fantastic set. Been using it for years and haven't found anything more versatile. Also recently came across the excellent (CC-licensed) Fugue set. http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/ http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

yesimahuman 17y ago
Awesome! Thanks for that. Silk has been great but sometimes the icon I want just isn't there.
- bmelton 17y ago
  You could, I suppose, contract the author of the silk icons for the icon you want. If I were a more cynical man, I might even suppose that was exactly the reason for producing a royalty-free icon set -- to drum up business.
  - scorpioxy 17y ago
    Cynical? What better way to show your skills to people who would contract you than to point at something as popular as his icon set?
    - bmelton 17y ago
      I meant it jokingly. It's a brilliant advertisement, to be sure; I think that most people just see things like that as done strictly out of the goodness of people's hearts, and while that may often be true, I usually am inclined to believe the more self-serving aspect of it. Not that there's anything wrong with it whatsoever.
  - yesimahuman 17y ago
    How do you mean? His site hasn't been updated for 4 years. I don't know anything about the author.
    - noginn 17y ago
      This is the author: http://twitter.com/markjames http://twitter.com/markjames
      - famfamfam 17y ago
        I wish I had been foresighted enough to realise that the icons were more than the occasionally useful result of a period of insomnia. The set was started because I could not find a good icon set to use in a system I was developing. I have done almost no icon design since this set was released; The icons have garnered me some personal infamy, and I make a little from text link ads, but I would kill the site if not for the fact that people still appear to find the icons useful and reliable. For personal work, I use the fugue set linked previously.
JeffJenkins 17y ago
Wow. That's an even bigger set. I had been using these, but neither set is as comprehensive as Silk: http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-of-minimal-icons/ http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-o... and http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/ http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/
nkm 17y ago
It seems the main site is down, but you can get them directly from GitHub: http://github.com/yusukekamiyamane/fugue-icons http://github.com/yusukekamiyamane/fugue-icons

by teye 17y ago

yesimahuman 17y ago

Awesome! Thanks for that. Silk has been great but sometimes the icon I want just isn't there.

bmelton 17y ago
You could, I suppose, contract the author of the silk icons for the icon you want. If I were a more cynical man, I might even suppose that was exactly the reason for producing a royalty-free icon set -- to drum up business.
- scorpioxy 17y ago
  Cynical? What better way to show your skills to people who would contract you than to point at something as popular as his icon set?
  - bmelton 17y ago
    I meant it jokingly. It's a brilliant advertisement, to be sure; I think that most people just see things like that as done strictly out of the goodness of people's hearts, and while that may often be true, I usually am inclined to believe the more self-serving aspect of it. Not that there's anything wrong with it whatsoever.
- yesimahuman 17y ago
  How do you mean? His site hasn't been updated for 4 years. I don't know anything about the author.
  - noginn 17y ago
    This is the author: http://twitter.com/markjames http://twitter.com/markjames
    - famfamfam 17y ago
      I wish I had been foresighted enough to realise that the icons were more than the occasionally useful result of a period of insomnia. The set was started because I could not find a good icon set to use in a system I was developing. I have done almost no icon design since this set was released; The icons have garnered me some personal infamy, and I make a little from text link ads, but I would kill the site if not for the fact that people still appear to find the icons useful and reliable. For personal work, I use the fugue set linked previously.

JeffJenkins 17y ago

Wow. That's an even bigger set. I had been using these, but neither set is as comprehensive as Silk: http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-of-minimal-icons/ http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-o... and http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/ http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/

nkm 17y ago

It seems the main site is down, but you can get them directly from GitHub: http://github.com/yusukekamiyamane/fugue-icons http://github.com/yusukekamiyamane/fugue-icons