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Free icons for any object in the world
- fuzzythinker 15y agoWas hoping verbs would be their next project. Sadly theverbproject.com is just someone's blog/portfolio page.
- maxogden 15y agoalso see the related http://iconathon.org http://iconathon.org initiative which is a series of icon brainstorming hackathons in a bunch of cities
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoThese CC Attribution licenses always scare me off. First off, what the heck does this even mean? You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author The author almost never specifies how they want to be attributed. But since they're using an Attribution license they must want to be attributed some how. So how am I going to attribute an author if I'm using their icons in a mobile app? That seems like quite a bit of extra work. I don't want to sound unappreciative, this is an awesome project, but I need a "how to use CC attribution art for dummies".
- wisty 15y agoIt's up to the author to specify. For most wikipedia text, you need to link back to the original article or a copy of the article or include a list of the major authors. On the other hand, StackExchange is more onerous - they require a link to SX, a link to each author, each author's name, links to each author's profile, and a text blurb indicating that the content is from SO. Oh, and no "nofollow" links, or JS tricks - they want the google juice. You also need to ensure that derivative work is also CC, if there is a -SA clause (which I think is the case for both wikipedia and SX. It should all be there in the TOS page. If they author/site doesn't say, just link back to them, and include a short blurb (i.e. "by <username> at <website>". Really, that's likely to be all they want. If they cared about the legalities, they probably include them in the TOS. Or email them, asking for clarification.
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- a3_nm 15y agoFor Wikipedia, apparently someone did their homework: the disclaimer under the edit box says "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." SO's insistence on non-obfuscated links doesn't make much sense to me, though. Users retain copyright to the content they submit to SO, so it's them, not SO, who say which attribution they would like. SO could require some sort of attribution to be sufficient (like Wikipedia does), but users are free to say that they accept any sort of attribution besides that, even one which does not credit SO at all.
- wxs 15y agoThey actually have a post about that on their blog: http://blog.thenounproject.com/post/7310229014/how-to-properly-attribute-cc-by-a-guest-blog-post-by http://blog.thenounproject.com/post/7310229014/how-to-proper... "When using a CC Attribution work created by us, please attribute it to The Noun Project and include a link whenever possible." (the post goes into more detail for CC-BY in general as well)
- azov 15y agoIt's really not that hard. If author does not specify the details, just add a line saying something like: "Icon (photo, music, whatever) credit: John Doe, www.example.com" to your about page. If you want to help the author a bit more, especially on the web, link to the specific page and provide a description, e.g.: "[Yellow Monkey Icon] (links to the icon page), (c)/by John Doe, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license". This helps with SEO. If you're making a derivative work, say so. At least that's what I suggest for my CC-BY works.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoThis is certainly the sensible way. But with legal contracts it's not enough to be sensible. The author is supposed to specify. The times I've contacted authors to ask about their desired attribution they've never contacted me back (only about half-a-dozen times now).
- enterneo 15y agoI don't find social icons :-(
- cynusx 15y agoyou might want to look at designmoo.com and http://365psd.com/ http://365psd.com/ Both these sites provide free social icons regularly.
- JacobIrwin 15y agoSweet UI. Useful and directional app for sure. Wanted to give you a heads^ that there was some lagging during homepage load and during icon (file) zip: 'noun_project_705.svg' downloading. I'm on MacBook Pro OS X Version 10.6.8 using Chrome (and the apps I am controlling in other Chrome tabs are cruising). Maybe there's some versioning-optimization fixes you could look into - or maybe it's me. I'm running at full wiFi connectivity (and AirPort bars) at the Sandbox Suites near Union. So I thought I'd at least drop you my observation as to see if I could help. Overall though - sleek work, I find comfort when controlling your app.
- iamwil 15y agoActually, what I really need is a VerbProject. What's the universal symbol for "Invite your friends"? How about "Like"? Web apps are more full of verbs than there are nouns, but we use icons of objects as substitute for verbs. like an envelope for "send mail" and a floppy disk for "save"
- pbreit 15y agoCrazy slow loading web site and doesn't work right on an iPad. But a nice idea.
- andrewflnr 15y agoWorked fine for me, once it loaded. Did you scroll with two fingers?
- pbreit 15y agoJust tried again. It's brutally slow. I have never scrolled with two fingers before but that worked.
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- Cyph0n 15y agoI don't really see the point to this. On the plus side, the design is awesome, especially the 404 page: http://blog.thenounproject.com/ http://blog.thenounproject.com/
- arkitaip 15y agoThis could be incredibly useful when designing highly international sites/apps. Hopefully it will be indexed by the already awesome icon finder EDIT: Icon finder delivers http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject_nps http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject_nps http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject_cook_and_shanosky http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject_cook...
- wxs 15y agoI wish I knew about iconfinder before. Very handy, thanks.
- iconfinder 15y agoOf course they are indexed :-)
- bprater 15y agoI just tried to embed one of these on a test site. It's really not that useful. The HTML code ends up taking up half a screen. I'd prefer these icons dumped into a custom font file. Then it takes up literally one character in HTML and can be completely modified using CSS.
- josephcooney 15y agoreally? Because fonts on the web are so much easier to deal with than PNG files?
- jenius 15y agoThey come in svg format, which work on most modern browsers as well
- josephcooney 15y agoYes, but PNGs will be easier to deal with than SVG and webfonts. I guess SVG give you the flexibility of turning them into high-fidelity versions of whatever you want. I regularly use nounproject SVGs to create 'icons' in Microsoft's vector XAML format.
- westiseast 15y agoI used these before on a travel site - fantastic. Some of the icons are a bit too over-worked (ie. they don't work well small, and they're a little too detailed) but overall, a huge set of icons really well designed. Only issue I had with the site (a while back) was couldn't find a big ZIP download of all icons, or PNG files. Had to go to some other big creepy download site for that. Weird.
- tedkimble 15y agoYou're right. They look beautiful at >100px on a typical display, but many look quite cramped if you try to match their dimensions to the height of your standard paragraph font.
- martinshen 15y agoIsn't this kind of old. It was a kickstarter project several months ago. I thought it was shared here
- petercooper 15y agoYes. It has been on HN several times and it is about 8 months old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981370 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981370 (239 days ago) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986921 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986921 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2629937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2629937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712978 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712978 Dupes are very common on HN nowadays, despite some people claiming they're not :-)
- tedkimble 15y agoI've been using a few of them lately; they're great. However, I wish they would expand their wonderful noun project to include verbs and adjectives and more. (Yes, it looks like they take the noun part rather serious.) Sure, there are nouns/icons like running (http://thenounproject.com/noun/running/ http://thenounproject.com/noun/running/), but I've had to abandon a number of searches on their site after realizing I'm not searching for a noun!
- gills 15y agoAn impressive suite of icons in a nice minimalist format. But...I guess looking at a large number of these, linguistic expressions seem to be less complex per concept than the iconographic equivalents.
- Jach 15y agoUnfortunately this doesn't help me decide what a "FtrsIndexScanRel" icon should look like. :( I like these, though I'm a bigger fan of the famfamfam icons.
- wlievens 15y agoI find the fugue icons more diverse and even cutier than famfamfam's silk icons.
- larrywright 15y agoThe problem with famfamfam is that they're everywhere. It's very obvious when a site is using them. The consequence is that sites that use them look a little less polished, in my opinion.
- hng 15y agoThis reminds me of the Isotype project (1924-1934). If it isn't an inspiration it is an nice coincidence. * Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language) * Isotype gallery: http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype
- james2vegas 15y agoYeah, I love how, for example, http://thenounproject.com/noun/bread/ http://thenounproject.com/noun/bread/ is basically a vectorisation of http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/255 http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/255 without acknowledgment.
- a3_nm 15y agoIt's probably a coincidence, I'd say. There are only that many ways to represent a piece of bread.
- Singletoned 15y agoWow, there's an Isotype for "hiding your erection with a hat": http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/471 http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/471
- yummyfajitas 15y agoJust curious, does this site have a public API? The kickstarter project suggests there is one, but I can't find it on the site.
- dglassan 15y agoI was looking for one too...couldn't find one.
- zbowling 15y agobeen using non-project for a while. One of my favorite sites for basic objects.
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- evilswan 15y agoThe site is REALLY slow right now. Have you tried viewing the html - there's some neat ASCII art at the top.
- robtoo 15y agoNo search facility? Really? Yes, I know you can URL-hack, but a search-engine with stemming would make the site a lot more usable/useful.
- smiler 15y agoThe search is on the front page. Where it says search, click it. It's not immediately obvious though
- robtoo 15y agoThanks. It was interesting to see how strong my expectations are for what a search box looks like that I will simply not see something right in front of me if it breaks the established conventions. Also: putting it on the front page only doesn't help.
- robert-boehnke 15y agoIs there a torrent of these icons, maintaing the metadata? I don't really want to tax their servers at the moment.
- MortenK 15y agoI'm on a laptop with Internet explorer 8 and is getting the message that "Internet explorer does not support the NounProject", and later down on the page "Currently, Internet explorer is the only browser that cannot display the format that is best suited for this site". Does anyone with access to the site, know what this technology / format is, that IE 8 doesn't support?
- justinlatimer 15y agoThe icons are all rendered as vectors using SVG which IE < 9 doesn't understand.
- MortenK 15y agoI see, thanks!
- reven 15y agoIs this not polyfillable with some add-on? I am sure I read that somewhere.
- andrewcooke 15y agohttp://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ is a nice project that implements svg in flash when necessary. it would probably work here.
- Kwpolska 15y agoReverse the triangles in #680 and I would be happy. (hint: triforce.) I was unable to find A BLOODY KEYBOARD. Also, your polish locale sucks. Use UTF-8 and ask the BROWSER, not determine my LOCALE by IP. Additionally, you shalln't use ` /' in HTML5.
- danparsonson 15y agoSmall suggestion - don't start searching until the user has stopped typing for a short period (or if you're doing that already, increase the time-out). If I'm typing 'house', I don't need search results for 'h', 'ho', 'hou', etc., and since the site is running slow at the moment, it seems to get a bit confused when multiple result sets come back.
- Lambent_Cactus 15y agoIs there a way to filter to show only the Public Domain icons without opening each shadow box individually?
- streptomycin 15y agoLike Neal Stephenson's mediaglyphs.
- machinespit 15y agoThe Easter Eggs are pretty neat (if you can find them). Here's one: http://thenounproject.com/noun/swing/ http://thenounproject.com/noun/swing/ (Mouse over the thumbnail)
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI'll say it. There's no icon for "penis".
- jamesrcole 15y agoPerhaps you could allow feedback on icons? A number of them don't conjure for me the thing they're supposed to. For example, 'mummy' is definitely not what comes to mind when I see the 'mummy' icon. The icon doesn't really look like anything in particular to me; I find it just gives of a slightly weird vibe. Or the 'golf' icon - the club looks more like a hockey stick to me.