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Don't know if it is the favorite of mine but AWS Architecture Diagrams. For example: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/bc/49/a7bc49be1828ca9a51e4082c0a1fc798.

• Someone 4y ago
  De gustibus non est disputandum, but I find these ugly. The icons draw too much attention, and (IMO) are incomprehensible. They have zillions of products, so I understand that not all their icons can be immediately recognizable, but is there meaning to the colors of icons? I can’t think of, for example, a reason why “Batch”, “CloudFront” and “Glacier” have the same color. Similarly, is there a language for recognizing icons? I don’t understand why EFS and CloudFront both are stacks of cubes, for example. I think I would choose the same colour and/or similar shapes for all icons that denote data stores (examples: S3, Glacier, RDS), for example, a different one for compute (examples: Lambda, EC2, Batch), and a third one for connections (load balancer, Route 53, CloudFront) Also, why are there such subtle differences in some of the colors? Do they mean something? Finally, if one of your 100+ products is called “S3” and you have to design a recognizable icon for it, how on earth can you not put a big “S” and a big “3” in that icon? It can’t be that they want to avoid text at all cost, as they wrote “Aurora” in an other icon.
  • bradwood 4y ago
    100% agree with you. The AWS icon/drawing design kit is just rubbish. It's super hard to read.