Silk Icons: A Comprehensive Open Source Icon Set(famfamfam.com)

81 pointsby JeffJenkins16 anni fa18 comments

Silk Icons: A Comprehensive Open Source Icon Set

http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

7 comments

Almost identical to the this icon set is the Farm-Fresh Web Icons which also includes 32x32 versions and 1000 icons

http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons/

teye16 anni fa

Silk is a fantastic set. Been using it for years and haven't found anything more versatile.

Also recently came across the excellent (CC-licensed) Fugue set.

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

JeffJenkins16 anni fa

Wow. That's an even bigger set. I had been using these, but neither set is as comprehensive as Silk:

http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-o...

and

http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/

nkm16 anni fa

It seems the main site is down, but you can get them directly from GitHub: http://github.com/yusukekamiyamane/fugue-icons

yesimahuman16 anni fa

Awesome! Thanks for that. Silk has been great but sometimes the icon I want just isn't there.

bmelton16 anni fa

You could, I suppose, contract the author of the silk icons for the icon you want.

If I were a more cynical man, I might even suppose that was exactly the reason for producing a royalty-free icon set -- to drum up business.

scorpioxy16 anni fa

Cynical?

What better way to show your skills to people who would contract you than to point at something as popular as his icon set?

bmelton16 anni fa

I meant it jokingly. It's a brilliant advertisement, to be sure; I think that most people just see things like that as done strictly out of the goodness of people's hearts, and while that may often be true, I usually am inclined to believe the more self-serving aspect of it.

Not that there's anything wrong with it whatsoever.

yesimahuman16 anni fa

How do you mean? His site hasn't been updated for 4 years. I don't know anything about the author.

noginn16 anni fa

This is the author: http://twitter.com/markjames

famfamfam16 anni fa

I wish I had been foresighted enough to realise that the icons were more than the occasionally useful result of a period of insomnia. The set was started because I could not find a good icon set to use in a system I was developing.

I have done almost no icon design since this set was released; The icons have garnered me some personal infamy, and I make a little from text link ads, but I would kill the site if not for the fact that people still appear to find the icons useful and reliable.

For personal work, I use the fugue set linked previously.

stevenp16 anni fa

Silk is a good set, but it's true that it's very easy to recognize in the wild. I think it's a good stopgap before you pick something less-used, but if you want your web app to have a voice and a point of view from a design standpoint, it's better to go custom.

sidmitra16 anni fa

THe Silk, FamFamFam set are easily reconizable which might be the perfect reason to use them from a usability perspective.

gkoberger16 anni fa

Here's a much easier way to browse them: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/preview.php

Be careful, though- these are the most overused set of icons. They're like the Comic Sans or Papyrus of icons. Like another commenter said, if you're looking for some less-used icons, try these two (free) sets:

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

ryne16 anni fa

I think that's pretty misleading comparing Silk to Comic Sans. A more suitable comparison would be to something like Helvetica or Times New Roman. Ubiquitous and overused but still a dependable choice.

roam16 anni fa

Or the LED Icon Set: http://led24.de/iconset/

(Though they look a lot like the Silk icons.)

rev08716 anni fa

Someone also tried to expand the set, and hosted it here: http://code.google.com/p/famfamfam/

dtran16 anni fa

I love silk icons! Really clean - I think we need to push for better standardization of icons though. There are too many sites where developers put the icons without text labels and I find myself mousing over hoping for a tooltop while trying to stare at a 16x16 icon to figure out what it is...

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