Re:Bright - a free collection of 148 icons
by patio11 on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:47PM
(#429842)
Pretty, and a worthy addition to the list for side projects and quick prototyping for things where I don't have budget yet.
For projects for actual business (your employers' or your own), I suggest investing in getting design a little more specific to the actual customers' needs than most stock free icon sets. This one, for example, would be grossly inappropriate for my non-technical customers, who are not yet up with the reflections on top of reflections Web 2.0 aesthetic. (I got my icons for them from http://www.icons-icons.com two years ago on sale for $25 and its probably the best $25 I ever spent in my life.)
Re:Bright - a free collection of 148 icons
by gabrielroth on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:54AM
(#430178)
New rule of iconography: Never, ever use an icon of a guitar for anything that doesn't specifically have to do with the guitar. Guitar-fingering-tutorial app? OK, you can use the guitar icon. General music recording/composition/mixing/production app? NO GUITAR.
Some icons are shoddy and I don't like the harsh jewel aesthetic used for a lot of them.
I wouldn't recommend using these.
For projects for actual business (your employers' or your own), I suggest investing in getting design a little more specific to the actual customers' needs than most stock free icon sets. This one, for example, would be grossly inappropriate for my non-technical customers, who are not yet up with the reflections on top of reflections Web 2.0 aesthetic. (I got my icons for them from http://www.icons-icons.com two years ago on sale for $25 and its probably the best $25 I ever spent in my life.)