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Icons Part 2

2nd edition — by Patrick McNeil — Feb. 23, 2007

Editions:

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The Design Element

For me the key to successful usage of icons in a web design is integration. Anyone can slap an icon on something and call it quits. On the other hand, if you want a nice unified design your gonna have to work it a bit. Not only should the style of the icons fit the site, but the color pallet as well. This seems obvious, but at the same time it can be so easy to not do this. The thing I love about these samples is that the icons really work to reinforce the design of the site and in many ways become the focus. Most of all though, they look like they belong.

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Sample Usage

Premium Free Icons

Silk Icons

Awesome free icon list

Feed Icons

Tango Desktop Project (free icons & more)

Other Free Icon Sources

Great set of mini pixel icons

Yellow Icon

TIny Icon Factory (web based icon creation, simple b&w)

Commercial Icons

Icon Buffet

SimpleBits stock icons

StockIcons

FastIcon

How To Create Icons

Anatomy of an icon

Another anatomy of an icon

Create XP Style Icons

Icon drawing tutorial

Recreate the iTunes icon

Special Software

Axialis IconWorkshop

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