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Icon search engine
- paraschopra 16y agoI have been using IconFinder.com for years now and I can attest that it is the best icon search engine out there. Almost all icons used in VWO come from there. I just wish that icon library was more comprehensive that what it is now but all in all, a well-executed site.
- iconfinder 16y agoThanks, man. I love your tool and I'm happy to provide you with icons. Every week I add 10 new icon sets so the icon library is growing. I have chosen not to let the users upload icons directly to make sure the quality is high.
- codefisher 16y agoIt has been around for awhile, been using it since about 2008. Cool service.
- iconfinder 16y ago2007
- codefisher 16y agoWent and did a search on my email, the first time I recommenced it to someone else was the 13th Oct 2007. So yeah 2007 it is!
- jeffmiller 16y agoLooks pretty much like findicons.com. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=rss http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=rss http://findicons.com/search/rss http://findicons.com/search/rss
- iconfinder 16y agoYes, findicons copied my site in February 2010. Iconfinder launched in 2007.
- timmaah 16y agoWhat are you hoping to gain by the "Show HN" post?
- iconfinder 16y agoFeedback from the smart users on Hacker News.
- gtani 16y agohttp://icones.pro/ http://icones.pro/
- fady 16y agothey totally ripped your UI, did you attempt to contact them?
- iconfinder 16y agoI did but they didn't answer. I really think it's a waste of time. Even though they have some users I can't see any effect on the growth on Iconfinder.com I have chosen to focus on delivering the best service and hope the users will notice.
- jeffmiller 16y agoWhoops, sorry. I assumed that "Show HN" meant your site was newer.
- scrrr 16y agoNice service, just tried searching "save" and I find it funny that what apparently is the standard icon still shows a floppy disk. Somebody should survey 10 year old kids if they know what it means..
- count 16y agoOf course they know what it is - it's the 'save icon' :) Wait, it used to be real?!
- chaosmachine 16y agoI think the floppy icon will stick around a while longer. How many times have you heard the rotary phone ringing bell sound used as a ring tone lately?
- CamperBob 16y agoYou have a point there, but I suspect the actual reason for the rotary-phone sound's continuing popularity is that all of the other stock iPhone ringtones are lame as hell.
- cabalamat 16y agoWell, motion pictures are still called "films". And letters still have serifs on them, despite the original reason for it (easier to engrave in stone) no longer being valid.
- wnoise 16y agoI'd really like a citation for serifs being easier to engrave in stone. That really doesn't make sense to me. I'd expect things like runes -- entirely straight lines, minimal decoration -- to be easier to carve.
- jiaaro 16y agowhen you're using a chisel on stone. you need to hit it straight down, creating a divet (the serif) to get the cut started. If you put the chisel diagonal and hit it with a hammer right off the bat, it just slides across the stone, and you usually hurt your thumb ;)
- utoku 16y agoWe use the floppy disk for the save icon, but we don't use floppies anymore. Just something that has been bothering me.
- nixy 16y agoWhat would you propose as a "save" icon?
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- pornel 16y agoSame button that closes the window. Seems to work for Mac OS X.
- kevinbutler 16y agoSave everything. Don't make the user click save. Even better if you can allow a rollback to any point in time. Better still if you can roll back to significant changes, with significant determined in terms of the domain context. kb
- michael_dorfman 16y agoWe also don't throw our floppy disks into a trash can to eject them, but that's what the "intuitive" Mac interface proposed, all those years ago. If these things bother you, you probably shouldn't study etymology. Most words (and concepts) retain leftover residues of previous strata of meaning. Such is change...
- sovok 16y agoNifty. Only the info window is 38px too far left in FF 3.6.11: http://imgur.com/M7546.png http://imgur.com/M7546.png
- iconfinder 16y agoI'll fix that.
- mdoyle 16y agogreat service, one of the best.
- StavrosK 16y agoThat is fantastically useful, thank you.
- emilsedgh 16y agoI dont understand why people dont use consistent icons on their apps. I always choose an icon set (Oxygen, Tango, etc) and use it for whole project. Sometimes there are missing icons, but i think its worth the consistency i get. Same style and same palette for all my icons.
- symptic 16y agoMost of the icons on the site are part of an icon set which is easily found. Been using IconFinder for a short while and it's a great service.
- lubos 16y agothis is great, I was using google images up until now for this... not anymore
- icode 16y agoI would say its not legal. Many icons are licensed "for personal use only". So putting them on a website with advertising seems to be against the license.
- iconfinder 16y agoI only put icons with this license on the site when I have permission from the author.
- icode 16y agoAh, ok! Didnt think of that.
- utoku 16y agoI saw one that had a free for commercial use only licence. That was different.
- arnorhs 16y agoThis is great. Sometimes all you need is just a quick Facebook like button. It's a great way to discover icons. Of course, you would usually want to use only icons from a single icon set, so your icons become consistent through your application. However, sometimes you get into trouble when the set doesn't have a particular icon. This site could be a life saver if you don't have any budget to contact the original designer and ask for custom work. Good job iconfinder
- iconfinder 16y agoYou can search the different icon sets - just go to iconfinder.com/browse When you have found a great icon set you can add a search term to the search query e.g. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:duesseldorf+star http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:duesseldorf+star It works like Google when using the filtype: or site: keywords.
- marcofloriano 16y agoCongratulatios !!! Amazing site, very usefull for web developers, thanks from Brazil !
- sgt 16y agoSpeaking of icons, I'm pretty much only interested in vector icons, because I can resize them any way I want and I'm doing the quality control when converting to PNG etc. Bitmap icon quality, even the ones based on original vector artwork, are sometimes simply not up to my standards. My favorite free icon collection is the "Tango" collection, but it is also lacking in a few ways. So I'm looking for another decent free or commercial vector collection that I can use for my projects. Most of the icon collections I see are selling bitmap versions only. Any ideas?
- iconfinder 16y agoThese are probably the best vector icons out there: http://helveticons.ch/ http://helveticons.ch/
- sgt 16y agoThanks for the tip. I see they are all single-color, but that's not really a problem since customizing them with colors or gradients is simple to do in Inkscape or Illustrator.
- twidlit 16y agoI have been using this for months and the interface is really good and the rights management filter is a very nice touch. I am hoping it starts indexing/storing vector files soon or maybe have accounts for the artist/shops behind the icons so that people can easily contact then hire them from the site itself.
- iconfinder 16y agoAdding vector version of the icons are definitely next step content-wise. The account for designers is a feature that is planned and coming within 2 months.
- MisterWebz 16y agoAbsolutely love the design. Did you hire someone to do it?
- iconfinder 16y agoI did the design, but not the logo. The logo was done by the talented TurboMilk -> http://www.turbomilk.com http://www.turbomilk.com They also did a nice illustration for the 404 page: http://www.iconfinder.com/pagenotfound http://www.iconfinder.com/pagenotfound
- CoffeeDregs 16y agoThat's just really nice and super helpful... Seems as though you have highly targeted content but have no real monetization. What are your plans for monetization?
- iconfinder 16y agoI'm planning to have have a premium area where paying users can get access to quality icons.
- jessriedel 16y agoThe site has been up for 3 years without monetization? Has it just been on the backburner?
- iconfinder 16y agoIt launched 2007, but it really took off in 2009. I'm still in school so I haven't had that much time to work on it. I'm doing ok from ads now and it is growing fast, so when I finish school in 2 months, I'm going to work on monetizing. You can see the growth compared to Dropbox.com and Ycombinator.com: http://icnf.me/brcjhH http://icnf.me/brcjhH
- CamperBob 16y agoThis may already be supported somehow, or otherwise planned, but one obvious way to monetize might be to act as a broker for contract designers. As a user, if I search for an icon and either don't find one that works for me, or find only icons with incompatible license terms, then the next thing I'm going to want to do is find someone who can design what I want. This is also going to be true in the event that I need a whole set of icons with a common motif or color/design scheme. No matter how good a search engine like yours is, most of its users will be at least partially unsatisfied, and you may be able to turn that into an advantage. It might also be a good way to stand out from the copycat sites.
- GavinB 16y agoLooks great. Makes me wish I had something that needs icons! The one thing that was a bit odd to me was the way the tiled icons don't often fill out the last line, even when there are many more pages of results. Typically an incomplete grid sends a message that this is the last page of results.
- iconfinder 16y agoThank you for the feedback. The last row is always a bit of a headache. Google Images an iStockphoto solves the problem by having results from the next page shown to fill out the last row. So you'll get duplicate results in the search results - maybe that is the best solution.
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- coreyrecvlohe 16y agoReally useful site. The usual method for myself is to use advanced filters through google, but this is definitely more optimized.
- charlief 16y agoVery very nice. Is there any way to categorize icon styles or qualities as well? An example after background colour and file format I would need: "Web 2.0-styled" or "cool/warm". I find the only time I page through search results is looking for specific style qualities.
- iconfinder 16y agoThanks. Categories are coming within a month.
- jessor 16y agoSwitched from iconlet. I really like it. The commercial usage filter is a killer feature. Great job!
- d3b14n 16y agoThe main problem I observe using iconfinder.com is the mess with different licenses selecting desire icons.
- iconfinder 16y agoThis is not just a problem for iconfinder.com but for icons and free web design stuff in general.
- d3b14n 16y agoI mean the lack of fine grain the search.
- ceejayoz 16y agoHow can there not be a bacon icon?!
- iconfinder 16y agoNo narwhal icons either - sorry to let you down.
- Omnipresent 16y agoawesome. this definitely beats office clip art search. You should maybe have a section "User's who downloaded this ...also downloaded X icon"
- iconfinder 16y agoThanks. That's not a bad idea.
- levesque 16y agoIs there no support for SVG icons?
- iconfinder 16y agoNot at the moment - but it's coming soon.
- PostOnce 16y agoI searched for "Sword". Got a bunch of pictures of locks and keys. :P
- iconfinder 16y agoIt searches for both "sword" and "%sword%" (with wildcards in both ends). It ranks results with exact match for "sword" higher than wildcard matches and what you are seeing are icons with the keyword "pasSWORD" since it hits "%sword%"
- zimro 16y agoFirst place I go when I seek a new icon. Simply perfect and easy to use.
- ibejoeb 16y agoThis is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. This will save me many hours.
- AndrewWarner 16y agoIt's been my go-to icon search for a long time, but how are you bringing in revenue?
- iconfinder 16y agoIt is only ad-based revenue at the moment and with 14MM per month it gives an ok revenue. I'm planning to add premium content in the coming months. Would you consider paying for high quality icons?
- ryanelkins 16y agoI'd consider paying for the ability to use some icons for commercial purposes. Perhaps you could get some sort of affiliate program going? Then you could add another rights type - 'Allowed for commercial use (purchase)' or something like that. Then you could start allowing designers to offer their icons directly. A centralized place for purchased icons would be much nicer than what you have to do now - search all over the web and trudge through lots of designer's websites to try and find what you're looking for.
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- EGreg 16y agoOh, sorry ... you're the guy behind iconfinder :) In that case, great job! I thought you were just posting a good resource. Looks like a very useful site ... bookmarked it along with my other icon finding sites.
- abraham 16y agoI created an account using Chrome but only the username seems to have been saved. Trying to edit my account results in a white screen so I can't add an email address or change my password. They username I signed up with is "abrahamwilliams"
- iconfinder 16y agoI fixed the bug - it should be working again.
- andrewljohnson 16y agoIcon search engine: images.google.com, include the word icon, or specify size
- iconfinder 16y agoYeah, you can compare the results here: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=computer http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=computer http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1342&bih=702&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=computer+icon&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1342...