Using icon fonts
A handy walkthrough of using icon fonts. The examples here use the excellent IcoMoon service
Tags: icon
A List Apart Issue № 371
This issue of A List Apart is a great double-whammy. Lara Swanson has a ton of practical tips for front-end performance enhancements, and Brian dives deep into making your own icon fonts.
Asset Fonts
The slides from Josh’s super-quickfire presentation at the Responsive Day Out.
Sparkicons and the humble hyperlink by Mark Boulton
I really like Mark’s idea of standardised “sparkicons” …for a while there, reading this, I was worried he was going to propose something like Snap Preview. shudder
❍ IcoMoon
This is a great free service for generating small subsetted icon fonts. Launch the app and have a play around — you can choose from the icons provided or you can import your own SVG shapes.
Nice touch: you can get the resulting font (mapped to your choice of unicode characters) base-64 encoded for your stylesheet.
Geeks, Swords and the Snow Crash Movie: Neal Stephenson in Conversation | Tor.com
A really enjoyable interview with Neal Stephenson.
JoshEmerson.co.uk · Blog · Using Fonts for Resolution Independent Assets
Josh gives a blow-by-blow account of he created a custom icon font for an upcoming redesign of the Clearleft website: completely scalable and resolution-independent.
I truly believe it won’t be all that long until bitmap image formats will be the exception rather than the rule on the web.
Mobile Navigation Icons | TimKadlec.com
Tim shows how to make a scalable three-line navicon in CSS.
Fontello - easy iconic fonts composer
A nifty service for creating a custom font with just the icons you need.
Symbolset
It’s really good to see more providers of icon font sets. These look very nicely designed indeed.
We need a standard show navigation icon for responsive web design | Stuff & Nonsense
Andy documents the kinds of symbols being used to represent revealable navigation on mobile.
Pictos
In an interesting new twist, Pictos now allows you to put together a custom subset of their icons as a font that can be served from their server just like any other webfont service.
The Icon Handbook | The Hickensian | Hicksdesign
Jon gives us a run-through on what to expect from his new book. I’ve had a sneak peek and it looks amazing—I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
Emoji Dick
Melville’s masterpiece, translated into Japanese emoticons. All 6438 sentences. Made possible with Kickstarter and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Bug 578967 – Remove feed/RSS button from top-level GUI for Firefox 4 (move to bookmarks menu)
A heated discussion around the decision in Firefox 4 to remove the RSS icon from the address bar.
9 hours (9h) Designer Capsule Hotel Review - Kyoto, Japan
A fascinating look at the experience design of the 9h brand of capsule hotel. I like the consistent use of colour, light and iconography.
getFavicon
A handy RESTful interface for retrieving favicons as images.
Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
A set of icons (in different sizes) from various trendy websites to use in your designs.
Throwboy
I need to get some RSS pillows.
Accident-explanatory slings to make you smile
If you've ever broken/strained a limb, you'll know how tedious it gets answering the inevitable "what happened?" question time and time again.
Google, Microsoft, Apple sued over preview icons | Business Tech - CNET News
Further proof, as if any were needed, that the patent system turns into a steaming pile of shit as soon as it has dealings with software.
Video: Made in North Carolina: The Iconfactory
"GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- In a small nondescript office on West Friendly Ave., a group of designers produces tiny artistic masterpieces that millions of people interact with every day." Nice TV news video clip showing our heroes and their beauti…
Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley | News
The Evening Standard picks up the story of Silicon Roundabout: Last.fm, Dopplr, Schulze and Webb, Moo...
Home of the Geotag Icon Project
An attempt to create a standardised icon for geotagged content, much like the standardised icon for RSS.
Logica Stock Icon Family debuts at Iconfactory's Stockicons.com
Clean, businesslike icons by the icon artists behind Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.
favikon
A great little tool for creating favicons.
Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog
This is good news. You can expect Gravatar service to get faster and better.
Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online
A series of infographics comparing Chinese and German culture. Amusing and astute.
mezzoblue § Chalkwork Basic Royalty-free Icons
Dave has made some icons — very nice ones.
veerleman at nafta
This is just plain creepy.
YouTube - Wheee!
Anthropomorphic browser icons are funny.
Mike Davidson: Who Would You Be... If You Were A Woman?
Mike follows on from his original question "who would you be?" by adding the subclause "if you were a woman". My answer: Hedy Lamarr.
BBC - Culture Show - Design Quest
Vote on your favourite Britsh design. It's a tough call but I might plump for the Penguin paperback.
Microsoft Team RSS Blog : The orange icon...
Possible ideas for IE's icon for RSS feeds. I like number five.