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Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
- Etheryte 8y agoThis is a quick and easy way to add a humane touch to a landing page and other similar content with the added benefit of being free (CC Attribution 4.0).
- gus_massa 8y agoIs it possible to add beard to the drawings? Is there an online version that is posible to use without installing the library in my machine?
- detaro 8y agohttps://ozgrozer.github.io/hdt/ https://ozgrozer.github.io/hdt/
- gus_massa 8y agoThanks! I don't understand something: Is this a full demo, or an example with only a few features / images? This demo doesn't have autosnap (I'm not sure about the official name). Also, I can't change the color of the hair, but it is not clear if it is possible in the original version.
- shanehoban 8y agoFavourited. Really nice work and impressive landing page. Would love to have an online tool for this also, as others have said. The style of work really reminds me of undraw [1] [1] https://undraw.co https://undraw.co
- KaoruAoiShiho 8y agoOh my god, the real gold is in the comments. Can you share some other cool stuff from your bookmarks?
- JunaidBhai 8y agohttp://draftss.com http://draftss.com is also coming up with something similar soon.
- shanehoban 8y agoUndraw is like the only thing I have to mind that I've noticed isn't as widely known. Perhaps these: - https://cruip.com https://cruip.com - https://unsplash.com https://unsplash.com - https://feathericons.com https://feathericons.com - Why didn't I get any money from my startup? - A guide to Liquidation Preferences and Cap Tables [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/a8f6xz/why_didnt_i_get_any_money_from_my_startup_a_guide/ https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/a8f6xz/why_didnt_...
- x3tm 8y ago> A constantly updated collection of beautiful svg images that you can use completely free and without attribution. Designers are my new favorite people. I have to go out now and meet some.
- flycaliguy 8y agoSounds like you will soon find us in line at the soup kitchen. /s
- yellowapple 8y agoMy only issue with unDraw (and Unsplash) is that the license isn't conclusively a free software license due to the "don't scrape our site and run a competing service" clause(s). I'd be more comfortable with it if they more clearly separated the license into one for the assets themselves (preferably something like CC0 or an ISC-like license) v. one for the site itself (which would be the right place for a "no scraping" rule). The impact's minimal, but it still rubs me a smidge wrongly.
- aboutruby 8y agoThis is really neat! Reminds me of the style Airbnb, Stripe and Dropbox uses.
- rchaud 8y agoNow that this art style is freely available, prepare to see it slathered over every new startup promising an API for your SaaS that integrates with their PaaS and builds a future-proof IaaS.
- louisswiss 8y agoHope you're using AI and machine learning to do that on the blockchain.
- rchaud 8y agoOf course! Our cloud-native, Agile-first team of DevOps rockstars are working on that as we speak.
- fredley 8y agoThis is great, and I really, really love the inclusive-by-default approach.
- Double_a_92 8y ago> inclusive-by-default Except for people with pale skin... I guess.
- fredley 8y agoAll 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.
- hnaccy 8y agoThere's a darker woman on the landing page and in the animated section there's a paler figure and couple darker.
- detritus 8y agoAs 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?
- Double_a_92 8y agoIs 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...
- coldtea 8y agoWell, since all are "mid-brown" the brown skinned people are somewhat represented. Paler skin (whites, asians, latinos) is totally missing, so not really interesting how the parent singles it out.
- agp2572 8y agoLooks like the artwork used on Google Fi website.
- elfakyn 8y agoThis looks like the generic "people" artwork you see in so many places.
- jlgosse 8y agoThat is exactly what it is
- jeanlucas 8y agoI think that's the goal
- breakingcups 8y agoI think that's exactly the point.
- augustk 8y agoIndeed. Clipart is low culture.
- Hoasi 8y agoLow culture is necessary and perfectly fine. Still, a lot of work went into releasing these free generic illustrations. Also, the more free clip art is available and used everywhere the quicker it will go out of style.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoI think the ambiguity is what makes clip-art attractive, you can recognize people you know in them, while with the other extreme, actual photos, it would look like a stranger
- Waterluvian 8y agoSomething'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" is teasing? That these aren't anything like real humans?
- JulianMorrison 8y agoIt's advertart. There's a depth of absolute cynicism in it that is well represented by the lack of faces - and of any diversity outside of the superficial. Pose-able lies, for use by liars, to sell bullshit for companies that don't care.
- kohanz 8y agoThey're marketing materials. They often don't represent everyone, but rather a specific set of customer demographics.
- fvdessen 8y agoLike the pregnant men demographic apparently.
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- bane 8y agoYou may be using the wrong definition of diversity. It's often used to mean containsminorities(thing) == true vs giniindex(thing) == high .
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoYep, there's a difference between Diversity™ and diversity.
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- crisstringfello 8y agowhere 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 and create outrage, for power and engagement.
- AYBABTME 8y agoThe average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.
- coreyp_1 8y agoNobody is average. OK, that's too short to really mean anything, so I'll elaborate. If you take the average characteristics of everyone in the world (wealth, skin tone, intelligence, BMI, height, gender, etc.), and turned that into a single person, then you would have a new, unique person. In other words, it would not "represent" anyone, and so should definitely be seen as controversial. There are a myriad of engineering stories about this discovery (one size doesn't fit all). If anything, I would have loved to see more diversity, or at the very least a prominent message on how to achieve it. Color might be the easiest change to make, but I didn't see any old or fat people on there, or how to make those variations. I like the overall idea of the project, though.
- pretendscholar 8y agoAnd the average human has roughly one testicle and breast.
- tyingq 8y agoThey are svgs without gradients. It's pretty easy to change the skintones, even with a text editor.
- pers0n 8y ago
- JUSTed 8y agoThis is the new version of stock photos for lazy and conformist people. But instead of having some young attractive models smiling at the camera with a flipchart in their hands, now you get a fast-food-style illustration, devoid of soul and personality, identical to the other designs used by some other startup, that's going to age like milk and will require a rebranding in two years. tl;dr — it's a fad.
- vertline3 8y agoI like that you said fast food illustration. That flatness is becoming draining. I assume it's a product of the tool Illustrator, which is very shape based.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI hope that fad dies fast; I hate this particular style with passion. I don't mean colors, or even lack of faces - I mean proportions. The worst offender is Facebook, I get angry whenever I have to look at their twisted, large-bodied, small-headed monsters that are meant to represent human beings. Smh.
- rchaud 8y agoThat's tech industry marketing in a nutshell though. How many startup homepages promise "seamless integration with your stack" or "first-class customer experience" and fail to deliver? Nokia's tagline back in the day used to be "Connecting People", and yet today it is FB that brazenly repeats this ad nauseam in its press statements each time another breach of user privacy is revealed.
- KineticLensman 8y ago> We are humaaan after all I'm not
- TheGrumpyBrit 8y agoAre you dancer?
- hnacc0 8y ago( out of topic ) similar to material design, metro design, what is this website using?
- bullen 8y agoI can't find the SVG files?
- coldtea 8y agoThere are several prominent "get the library" links on the page that lead to Dropbox where you can download the whole package. SVGs are in the "flat assets -> Humaaans" folder.
- codeape 8y agoOn a Windows PC, what (free, open source) drawing program would I use to create illustrations using these pieces?
- projektfu 8y agoInkscape
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- innerspirit 8y agoInteresting how I did not notice any issues with the library until I came to the comments and there were several mentions of implicit racism. There is some projection going on here. Upon reviewing the site again, there are some lighter skin tones that I would identify with as a pale white man, if I really cared.
- whatshisface 8y ago>Upon reviewing the site again, there are some lighter skin tones that I would identify with as a pale white man, I looked through it and I have to disagree, the skin tones are all dark. There is no reason to call that racist though, maybe the author just doesn't see a lot of white people in whatever country they live in. Edit: ouch, I guess my optimism was misplaced. Given that he's from California, it really does look like the author was making a political statement.
- nmstoker 8y agoIt appears he lives in California https://mobile.twitter.com/pablostanley https://mobile.twitter.com/pablostanley
- rchaud 8y agoThe commenters jumping all over the "I'm not represented" angle are likely the same people who would opine "identity politics is killing this country" if the situation were reversed. Either way, these are SVG files and can be edited to switch out colors. That's the whole point of a library like this.
- nmstoker 8y agoWhat would be an interesting side-project would be to apply some machine learning, so a user could describe the kind of person / activity in a sentence and it would be generated using this.
- Rainymood 8y agoWhat is the font?
- cowflik 8y agohttps://www.myfonts.com/fonts/latinotype/recoleta/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/latinotype/recoleta/
- cmpb 8y agoOT: The word "Humaaans" makes me think of the Ferengi from Star Trek. E.g. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63716/why-do-the-ferengi-pronounce-human-the-way-they-do https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63716/why-do-the-f...
- glitcher 8y agoBjork's "Human Behavior" immediately popped into my head. "If you ever get close to a humaaaan..."
- theon144 8y agoNice! This came at just the right time for me too. I find the general attitude in this comment section curious, though; lots of people are arguing about the skin tone choice which is notably brown. Yet I feel that if it were lighter in shade, there would be much less grumbling and criticism about not including every single possible body shape?
- whatshisface 8y agoThe author left out white people, and since he's white himself and from California the "he just doesn't live around white people" explanation that I was originally going for can't be right. If he had left out a people group that he didn't see very often (if he lived in Nigeria that could be white people, if he lived in Norway that could be Native Americans) then nobody would be upset. But all signs point to this being some kind of misguided political expression. I can see why everyone is riled up; it's (apparently intentionally) tapping in to one of the lava pools of "this is unfair" sloshing around America these days.
- porphyrogene 8y agoIf you ever feel that you need to know the skin color of a project's author in order to judge it properly then you are the one with the problem.
- whatshisface 8y agoThat's often true, but sometimes there is a cultural context. Knowing what kind of environment the author hails from casts light on interpretation more often than it does not, in fact. In this case, knowing that the author was not a Nigerian (for example) showed that the theory that "there are no light skin tones because the artist is not used to seeing them," is false.
- porphyrogene 8y agoWhy do you need a theory to explain the skin tones? Why does it matter at all? What is so triggering for you about a web page without a depiction of a white person?
- instasouper 8y agoI love the 100% diversity!
- b_b 8y agoNice little Daft Punk easter egg in the panel with the "Nothing Found" example page (https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics), and the ending statement "We are humaaan after all." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_After_All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_After_All)
- yellowapple 8y agoI managed to get Daft Punk and Level 42 simultaneously stuck in my head.
- dharma1 8y agoGreat execution and right on the money with style
- hmak 8y agoI'm using this on my landing page. The illustrations are beautiful and the way Pablo Stanley organizes all the assets in Sketch is amazing. Also note, Humaaans is under CC 4.0
- jmknoll 8y agoThis 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.