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Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations

295 points by vinrob92 8y ago

vortico 8y ago
I don't see a license in the page, and "Use them in a commercial or non-commercial way for your landing pages" unfortunately isn't enough to state the extent for their copyright use. SVG is a really cool format since you can easily change the colors of certain elements with your SVG editor to make them unique. This website even has a color selector next to the search field for choosing the root color.
- nkozyra 8y ago
  I feel like the design service is muddled with this, so agreed. I imagine this is more of a promotional tool to get people to know about the company - and that's fine - but if you're going to put it out there be clear how people can use it
- zhte415 8y ago
  Thanks for the colour selector tip; not doing a search, I would have missed that it updates all pictures instantly. A very nice feature.
- vinrob92 8y ago
  Just updated our gallery with our license -> https://gallery.manypixels.co/license https://gallery.manypixels.co/license
  - kiba 8y ago
    Isn't this just public domain? Why not use an existing license like Creative Common Zero if that's what you're going for. Edit: Never mind. I saw the compilation term.
skilled 8y ago
Thank you. Also for those who don't know already, unDraw [1] offers a similar collection. [1]: https://undraw.co/ https://undraw.co/
amelius 8y ago
I think these illustrations are very nice, but they might have too much "identity" to be generally applicable.
- codingdave 8y ago
  They are editable, so you can fix that. I do think they hit an odd middle ground of being too complex to use in apps, yet too simple to use in content. But they are free, so I'm appreciative of the work that went into it, even if I don't personally have a use for them.
hk__2 8y ago
> […] More precisely, ManyPixels grants you an nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use the assets provided from ManyPixels for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the creator or ManyPixels. This license does not include the right to compile assets, vectors or images from ManyPixels to replicate a similar or competing service, in any form or sell the assets in packs. […] I don’t understand the license [1]: how can it prohibits me to e.g. compile assets to resell them and at the same time allow me to do whatever I want without asking permission from ManyPixels? [1]: https://gallery.manypixels.co/license https://gallery.manypixels.co/license
- chrisabrams 8y ago
  Because that’s the terms of the license. You can use it as long as you don’t commercially profit from the freebie. More than reasonable to me.
  - nightfly 8y ago
    > without permission from or attributing the creator or ManyPixels So as one "work" publish the items with a less restrictive license. And as a second "work" publish your compilation of the first work.
- skilled 8y ago
  I recently saw someone compile together ALL of the unDraw illustrations and sell them as a bundle on one of Envato's marketplaces. I think this license implies that this kind of behavior isn't okay, and rightfully so.
- moeamaya 8y ago
  Common license now for freebies: https://unsplash.com/license https://unsplash.com/license
- nightfly 8y ago
  I don't think many people understand open licenses very well. I project that I follow that has been active for years releases under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, but think they can prohibit people from using their assets from receiving donations for things made with them...
Rexxar 8y ago
"Please use modern navigator" : I don't need to be insulted when visiting a website.
- moreira 8y ago
  Are you saying the browser you use is such a part of your personal identity that you feel personally insulted when people talk about it negatively? Why do you feel that way?
  - Rexxar 8y ago
    Because last version of firefox doesn't deserve this message. I have become suspicious of all message of this sort with time, I feel they are purely dishonest 95% of the time, and dishonesty is insulting.
    - gemn 8y ago
      Have no problems with latest version of Firefox on MAC, are you using windows ?
      - Rexxar 8y ago
        It's probably because of adblock or something like that but there is so many ways to frame it correctly like "cannot load image".
        heavenlyblue 8y ago
        uBlock Origin doesn't trigger that. Latest Firefox, too.
        Semaphor 8y ago
        uMatrix does, it loads (presumably) the SVG data from media.graphcms.com
        8y ago
dovel 8y ago
There's another link to undraw but are there any more places to find stuff like this? Paid or free? I was recently looking for an svg shape library purely for decoration but couldn't find anything.
- fiatjaf 8y ago
  https://www.flaticon.com/ https://www.flaticon.com/, maybe?
- tordanik 8y ago
  There's always Openclipart: https://openclipart.org/ https://openclipart.org/ The downside is, of course, the wildly varying style and quality, which means that finding the good images can require sifting through lower-quality content. But at least to me, that's often more useful than a comparatively tiny selection of consistently high quality art which probably just isn't going to have what I'm looking for. They also are using straightforward CC0 terms, which is always a plus compared to custom licenses.
dorfsmay 8y ago
What are the differences and advantage over https://openclipart.org/ https://openclipart.org/ ?
- makeee 8y ago
  They seem to be much higher quality. I can’t imagine putting anything from openclipart on a product landing page.
lichtenberger 8y ago
I really like these SVG graphics. Thank you :)
mpolichette 8y ago
It wouldn’t hurt to add some cultural diversity to the characters. I know they’re editable so “I could do it”, but I think it would enhance the main landing page to show some examples... as well as make it more inclusive for the audience.
- renlo 8y ago
  What culture do the images depict?
jv22222 8y ago
To my eyes, it’s not quite clear if these are free or not. Royalty free in some cases might mean pay one time and then not any more for future applications. Are they free?
magnetic 8y ago
First of all, the website looks good and the illustrations (final product) are nice, but a couple of things put me off a bit: First, the chatbot at the bottom right. I know it's common to many websites, and perhaps there are stats that show they help conversion, but I find it very annoying. If I need something, I can click on the chat button: you don't need to already start a chat with me and use up real estate for a chat that I haven't requested, and require 2 clicks from me to close it (the first click just opens up a bigger overlay, and the second click minimizes it to the state I wanted it to be to begin with). Also I know that it's an automated greeting and nothing personal, so it feels like an ad, disguised as a personal interaction. Second, any business proposition where I am offered "unlimited" anything where I know that real human work (not automated) is required, or that limited resources (bandwidth, storage, etc) will have to be shared in order to satisfy my needs tells me that it is not sustainable from the provider side (business-wise) and that the only way it will actually work is if the service to me gets degraded so that it can handle the load from all the other customers. Perhaps consider the level of service that you can really offer and state it clearly in the plans. If I see "10 requests" monthly it will signal to me that you've done your homework to figure out what the right number is so that your business can support me appropriately at that level, but if you say you can handle an unlimited amount of work from me for a fixed fee, it gives me the feeling that you haven't done your homework, and that our relationship is going to be difficult at some point. Another vague commitment is to "get an update on your task/order within one business day" - which I can interpret, if my experience with other services serves, that I will get an email with a confused one liner every day until we finally converge on what I really need after half a dozen emails that used up 6 days of "service". I have dealt with parties that offered 24h turnaround support/updates/modifications only to find out that their response, perhaps due to workload stress, was not helpful and required another interaction from me: it creates an artificial throttling system that is most annoying to customers that want stuff to get done. Solutions? Consider a pay-per-use model. You can always do volume discounts and even a fixed monthly fee to access a discounted price per if you want to address bigger customers. You can also provide N free interactions for new customers if you want to showcase your work. What I as customer want is to see a business model where your incentives and my incentives are aligned to get each piece of work out of the pipeline as soon as possible. This should be a common goal for both parties: you want the job to be done so you can make money on another one, and I want the job to be done for obvious reasons. Any business interaction where I will be in a position of needing to push at a throttled rate tells me the incentives to get my work done aren't shared, and that worries me. Good luck!
avmich 8y ago
Notices "Please use modern navigator" everywhere instead of pictures. Should be "Please use not-so-modern, with privacy features disabled, ready to consume ads user-hostile browser"
- pluma 8y ago
  Firefox with content-blocking enabled works fine. Not sure what you mean.
  - cgriswald 8y ago
    The site uses XHR to pull from media.graphcms.com in order to display the images. When this fails it instead displays the message "please use modern navigator" in place of each image. For me, uMatrix was blocking the requests.
    - quickthrower2 8y ago
      Great example of where you don’t need xhr

295 points by vinrob92 8y ago

I don't see a license in the page, and "Use them in a commercial or non-commercial way for your landing pages" unfortunately isn't enough to state the extent for their copyright use. SVG is a really cool format since you can easily change the colors of certain elements with your SVG editor to make them unique. This website even has a color selector next to the search field for choosing the root color.

nkozyra 8y ago
I feel like the design service is muddled with this, so agreed. I imagine this is more of a promotional tool to get people to know about the company - and that's fine - but if you're going to put it out there be clear how people can use it
zhte415 8y ago
Thanks for the colour selector tip; not doing a search, I would have missed that it updates all pictures instantly. A very nice feature.
vinrob92 8y ago
Just updated our gallery with our license -> https://gallery.manypixels.co/license https://gallery.manypixels.co/license
- kiba 8y ago
  Isn't this just public domain? Why not use an existing license like Creative Common Zero if that's what you're going for. Edit: Never mind. I saw the compilation term.

skilled 8y ago

Thank you. Also for those who don't know already, unDraw [1] offers a similar collection. [1]: https://undraw.co/ https://undraw.co/

amelius 8y ago

I think these illustrations are very nice, but they might have too much "identity" to be generally applicable.

codingdave 8y ago
They are editable, so you can fix that. I do think they hit an odd middle ground of being too complex to use in apps, yet too simple to use in content. But they are free, so I'm appreciative of the work that went into it, even if I don't personally have a use for them.

hk__2 8y ago

> […] More precisely, ManyPixels grants you an nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use the assets provided from ManyPixels for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the creator or ManyPixels. This license does not include the right to compile assets, vectors or images from ManyPixels to replicate a similar or competing service, in any form or sell the assets in packs. […] I don’t understand the license [1]: how can it prohibits me to e.g. compile assets to resell them and at the same time allow me to do whatever I want without asking permission from ManyPixels? [1]: https://gallery.manypixels.co/license https://gallery.manypixels.co/license

chrisabrams 8y ago
Because that’s the terms of the license. You can use it as long as you don’t commercially profit from the freebie. More than reasonable to me.
- nightfly 8y ago
  > without permission from or attributing the creator or ManyPixels So as one "work" publish the items with a less restrictive license. And as a second "work" publish your compilation of the first work.
skilled 8y ago
I recently saw someone compile together ALL of the unDraw illustrations and sell them as a bundle on one of Envato's marketplaces. I think this license implies that this kind of behavior isn't okay, and rightfully so.
moeamaya 8y ago
Common license now for freebies: https://unsplash.com/license https://unsplash.com/license
nightfly 8y ago
I don't think many people understand open licenses very well. I project that I follow that has been active for years releases under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, but think they can prohibit people from using their assets from receiving donations for things made with them...

Rexxar 8y ago

"Please use modern navigator" : I don't need to be insulted when visiting a website.

moreira 8y ago
Are you saying the browser you use is such a part of your personal identity that you feel personally insulted when people talk about it negatively? Why do you feel that way?
- Rexxar 8y ago
  Because last version of firefox doesn't deserve this message. I have become suspicious of all message of this sort with time, I feel they are purely dishonest 95% of the time, and dishonesty is insulting.
  - gemn 8y ago
    Have no problems with latest version of Firefox on MAC, are you using windows ?
    - Rexxar 8y ago
      It's probably because of adblock or something like that but there is so many ways to frame it correctly like "cannot load image".
      - heavenlyblue 8y ago
        uBlock Origin doesn't trigger that. Latest Firefox, too.
        Semaphor 8y ago
        uMatrix does, it loads (presumably) the SVG data from media.graphcms.com
        8y ago

dovel 8y ago

There's another link to undraw but are there any more places to find stuff like this? Paid or free? I was recently looking for an svg shape library purely for decoration but couldn't find anything.

fiatjaf 8y ago
https://www.flaticon.com/ https://www.flaticon.com/, maybe?
tordanik 8y ago
There's always Openclipart: https://openclipart.org/ https://openclipart.org/ The downside is, of course, the wildly varying style and quality, which means that finding the good images can require sifting through lower-quality content. But at least to me, that's often more useful than a comparatively tiny selection of consistently high quality art which probably just isn't going to have what I'm looking for. They also are using straightforward CC0 terms, which is always a plus compared to custom licenses.

dorfsmay 8y ago

What are the differences and advantage over https://openclipart.org/ https://openclipart.org/ ?

makeee 8y ago
They seem to be much higher quality. I can’t imagine putting anything from openclipart on a product landing page.

lichtenberger 8y ago

I really like these SVG graphics. Thank you :)

mpolichette 8y ago

It wouldn’t hurt to add some cultural diversity to the characters. I know they’re editable so “I could do it”, but I think it would enhance the main landing page to show some examples... as well as make it more inclusive for the audience.

renlo 8y ago
What culture do the images depict?

jv22222 8y ago

To my eyes, it’s not quite clear if these are free or not. Royalty free in some cases might mean pay one time and then not any more for future applications. Are they free?

magnetic 8y ago

First of all, the website looks good and the illustrations (final product) are nice, but a couple of things put me off a bit: First, the chatbot at the bottom right. I know it's common to many websites, and perhaps there are stats that show they help conversion, but I find it very annoying. If I need something, I can click on the chat button: you don't need to already start a chat with me and use up real estate for a chat that I haven't requested, and require 2 clicks from me to close it (the first click just opens up a bigger overlay, and the second click minimizes it to the state I wanted it to be to begin with). Also I know that it's an automated greeting and nothing personal, so it feels like an ad, disguised as a personal interaction. Second, any business proposition where I am offered "unlimited" anything where I know that real human work (not automated) is required, or that limited resources (bandwidth, storage, etc) will have to be shared in order to satisfy my needs tells me that it is not sustainable from the provider side (business-wise) and that the only way it will actually work is if the service to me gets degraded so that it can handle the load from all the other customers. Perhaps consider the level of service that you can really offer and state it clearly in the plans. If I see "10 requests" monthly it will signal to me that you've done your homework to figure out what the right number is so that your business can support me appropriately at that level, but if you say you can handle an unlimited amount of work from me for a fixed fee, it gives me the feeling that you haven't done your homework, and that our relationship is going to be difficult at some point. Another vague commitment is to "get an update on your task/order within one business day" - which I can interpret, if my experience with other services serves, that I will get an email with a confused one liner every day until we finally converge on what I really need after half a dozen emails that used up 6 days of "service". I have dealt with parties that offered 24h turnaround support/updates/modifications only to find out that their response, perhaps due to workload stress, was not helpful and required another interaction from me: it creates an artificial throttling system that is most annoying to customers that want stuff to get done. Solutions? Consider a pay-per-use model. You can always do volume discounts and even a fixed monthly fee to access a discounted price per if you want to address bigger customers. You can also provide N free interactions for new customers if you want to showcase your work. What I as customer want is to see a business model where your incentives and my incentives are aligned to get each piece of work out of the pipeline as soon as possible. This should be a common goal for both parties: you want the job to be done so you can make money on another one, and I want the job to be done for obvious reasons. Any business interaction where I will be in a position of needing to push at a throttled rate tells me the incentives to get my work done aren't shared, and that worries me. Good luck!

avmich 8y ago

Notices "Please use modern navigator" everywhere instead of pictures. Should be "Please use not-so-modern, with privacy features disabled, ready to consume ads user-hostile browser"

pluma 8y ago
Firefox with content-blocking enabled works fine. Not sure what you mean.
- cgriswald 8y ago
  The site uses XHR to pull from media.graphcms.com in order to display the images. When this fails it instead displays the message "please use modern navigator" in place of each image. For me, uMatrix was blocking the requests.
  - quickthrower2 8y ago
    Great example of where you don’t need xhr