CSS ICON
Wenting Zhang created 512 (!) icons with just HTML and CSS. Usually just one element, the occasional extra element thrown in, and drawn with things like borders, backgrounds, and box-shadows. Looks...
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High five to Dave Gandy and the Font Awesome team: The Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter raised $1,076,940 with 35,549 backers, making it the most funded and most backed software Kickstarter of all time....
View ArticleEtsy’s Evolving Icon System
Etsy moves away from an icon font in production to using SVG. It's going to be an inline <svg> system, but abstracted as a <etsy-icon> custom element for ease of use. Two cents: I could see...
View ArticleHow Can I Make My Icon System Accessible?
Here's a question I got the other day? Would you suggest icon fonts or inline SVGs for a complex single page application? And are there specific accessibility concerns for either? Accessibility is...
View ArticleExtinct & Endangered
I've been watching a lot of nature documentaries lately. I like how you can either pay super close attention to them, or use them as background TV. I was a massive fan of the original Blue Planet, so...
View ArticleEmojis as Icons
There are lots of unicode symbols that make pretty good icons already, like arrows (←), marks (✘), and objects (✂︎).You can already colorize these like a normal font glyph. Then, there are emojis,...
View ArticleAccessible SVG Icons With Inline Sprites
This is a great look at accessible SVG markup patterns by Marco Hengstenberg. Here's the ideal example: <button type="button"> Menu <svg class="svg-icon" role="img" height="10" width="10"...
View ArticleControl Icons with Font Size
Here’s a nifty trick from Andy Bell that now seems a little obvious in hindsight: if you set an SVG to have a width and height of 1em then you can change the size of it with the font-size property. Try...
View ArticleCreating a Maintainable Icon System with Sass
One of my favorite ways of adding icons to a site is by including them as data URL background images to pseudo-elements (e.g. ::after) in my CSS. This technique offers several advantages: They don't...
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Maskable Icons: Android Adaptive Icons for Your PWA
You’ve created a Progressive Web App (PWA), designed an icon to represent it, and now you’re installing it to your Android home screen. But, if you have a recent Android phone, your icons will show up...
View Articlecss.gg
I'm not sure what to call these icons from Astrit Malsija. The title is "500+ CSS Icons, Customizable, Retina Ready & API" and the URL is "css.gg" but they aren't really named anything. Anyway,...
View ArticleDo you need an ICON ONLY button without screwing up the accessibility?
The first consideration is: do you really? If you can, having text next to your icons is proven over and over again to be the most accessible and clearest UX (see Apple's latest blunder). But if you...
View ArticleHamburger ☰ Heaven
A pleasant little romp through iconography and culture from Sophia Lucero. The "hamburger" menu icon we're familiar with now is really a sign from Taoist cosmology. Besides ☰, which represents heaven...
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SVG Title vs. HTML Title Attribute
You know the title attribute? I can do this: <div title="The Title"> I'm a div with a `title` </div> And now if I’m on a device with a mouse pointer and hover the cursor over that element,...
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System UIcons
This is a great collection of icons by Corey Ginnivan that’s both free and with no attribution required when you use them. The style is super simple. Each icon looks like older versions of the icons...
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Some New Icon Sets
I’ve bookmarked some icon sets lately, partly because I can never find a nice set when I need to. I figured I’d even go the extra mile here and blog them so I can definitely find them later. Aside...
View Article$1,076,940
High five to Dave Gandy and the Font Awesome team: The Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter raised $1,076,940 with 35,549 backers, making it the most funded and most backed software Kickstarter of all time....
View ArticleEtsy’s Evolving Icon System
Etsy moves away from an icon font in production to using SVG. It’s going to be an inline <svg> system, but abstracted as a <etsy-icon> custom element for ease of use. Two cents: I could see...
View ArticleHow Can I Make My Icon System Accessible?
Here’s a question I got the other day? Would you suggest icon fonts or inline SVGs for a complex single page application? And are there specific accessibility concerns for either? Accessibility is...
View ArticleExtinct & Endangered
I’ve been watching a lot of nature documentaries lately. I like how you can either pay super close attention to them, or use them as background TV. I was a massive fan of the original Blue Planet, so...
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