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smashingmagazine.com

In Search Of The Ideal Privacy Icon

Icons are capable of enhancing the content that surrounds them, but they have to be self-explanatory for that to happen.

iconbundler.com

Iconbundler

Convert and optimize SVG icons to React, Vue, and Svelte components

iconbuddy.app

Iconbuddy — 180K+ open source icons

Iconbuddy is a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons.

uxdesign.cc

Iconic icons: Celebrating design’s nifty little helpers

The power of iconography in our everyday lives.

flowbite.com

Flowbite Icons: Open-source SVG icons

Get started with a collection of free and open-source collection of SVG icons compatible with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS.

evilmartians.com

Icon transcendence: customizing icons to complement fonts

There are many lovely open source icon sets out there, but sometimes, we just need to ‘transcend’ them.

blog.chromium.org

An Update on the Lock Icon

Due to the ubiquity of HTTPS and to make settings more accessible Chrome plans to replace the address bar lock icon with a new "tune" icon.

darkroom.co

The art behind the Darkroom app icon

Learn why the logo and app icon have changed and the reasons behind each variation.

shakuro.com

Icon Design Trends For 2023

Check out these icon design trends for future years before diving into work.

futicons.com

Futicons - Icons for the future

Figma designed icons for niche segments like VR, AR, Interplanetary Travel, AI, Crypto, Blockchain, Cyborg, Future Transportation and Sustainability.

bjango.com

Pushpin Icon Speedrun

When viewing my vector icon speedruns, it can be difficult to see precisely what’s going on.

designsystemsforfigma.com

Brand Expression In Design Systems: Icons & Illustrations

Elena Searcy, the Director of Product Design at PlayVS writes about how to infuse a design system with brand energy.

icones.js.org

Icônes

Open-source vector icons search engine.

lucide.dev

Lucide - Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.

Open-source project and a fork of Feather Icons. We're expanding the icon set as much as possible while keeping it nice-looking

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Sketch Design Challenge: App Icons

The recent sketchDesignChallenge on Twitter got me admiring all the beautiful app icons folks were making.

elttob.medium.com

Vanilla is Ripe

Years ago, I did a concept redesign of Roblox Studio’s interface.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

A Short History of iOS App Icons

The following was originally written by me and published as a chapter in “The iOS App Icon Book”.

material.io

Material Icons: Sehee Lee

An interview with Senior Visual Designer leading icons and design systems for Google Fonts

iconfactory.com

The Iconfactory Remembers Corey

The design studio pauses to remember the life, art & legacy of founder Corey Marion who passed away recently.

appiconbook.com

The iOS App Icon Book

A book celebrating the art of app icon design featuring icons from designers around the world. Now backed & shipping.