Thanks for this. I came across the site back when it first started, and thought "this would be a promising thing to keep my eye on" - and, in typical fashion, forgot about it completely thereafter.
It has progressed much and I can think of many uses I would put this to.
this is great, thanks James. I looked through your other projects as well, all have very light and appealing graphics. Would you mind saying what tools you use to pick up colors, templates, etc?
This actually isn't something I made. Just thought it was cool. :)
I use Photoshop 7 for image editing. I look for color inspiration on sites like cssmania.com and dribbble.com. I've used Adobe Kuler a few times. For design, gedit or EditPad Pro. The designs are from scratch but inspiration comes from the sites I mentioned. Sometimes I do rough mockups in Photoshop before I start writing the layout.
thanks. I webdesign little bit by myself. can you point me to javascript you used for hovers and sliding of icons and that "bubble" effect popping up when you click for details? its not jQuery I think. i would like to use this functionality, if this is not copyrighted.
The donate button that goes straight to paypal kinda sucks. Would be nice to have an in-between page to tell us how donations are used and all that other goodness. Also, don't I recall considerable problems for non-charities to collect "donations" via paypal?
The problem was soliciting donations with the promise that the funds would be given to a particular charity/cause. Presumably in the past that has often been done in a fraudulent manner.
Just asking for money isn't going to have that particular issue... :)
This was one of the first projects I donated to on Kickstarter and one that I am sooo happy I did. I use it as an example to other web developers when I mention why I think the Kickstarter model is really the future of creating useful things.
I don't like the website, the way that all the icons are listed without any sort of indication to how far I'm scrolling through the set. Also, icons are sorted by tags but to find tags I must either search and hope there is a tag or find a tag via specific icons pages, why is there no directory? Feels like the focus was look pretty over efficiently store a large collection of icons. Nice icons though.
I find the layout irritating as well. While The Noun Project is good for common nouns, if you're looking for something slightly out of the norm, you'll have to scroll through endless pages to find something that will fit.
Other than this, it's an excellent resource for any iOS project (or anything else, for that matter.)
Agree, and unusable on a mobile unfortunately. It says my browser is not up-to-date - more like someone's web dev skills are not up-to-date. It's a very good project but just feels like it's trying to be too clever.
Was curious about how many HTTP requests were used to load all the Icons, but found that those are not separate 'images', instead SVG is being used to 'draw' them, thus just taking one HTTP request to load a bunch of icons.
Luckily they have a very good guide on how to attribute[1]. If you are using them on a site or in an App you can simply put the attributions in your about page.
The requirements listed on that page are still kind of silly, though, especially for a commercial project, where it requires you to list the attribution right near the use of it. For example: "If your product is listed online, you must include the proper attribution on the same page next to the item you are selling. "
That kind of requirement is just begging to be ignored completely.
So what? 5 months is a long time, and I bet that they've added a lot of symbols.
(Also: I've been on HN for a really long time and there are plenty of things that are months — or years — old that I've forgotten about and wouldn't mind seeing again.)
Do you think HN would benefit from a bot that reposts 5-month-old resources where the resource would have updated since then?
I think this would only be valuable when the first post is more of a "show hn/looking for contributors" and the second is a "this project has come of age and is valuable for the general population".
Otherwise, if it was valuable then, you would've bookmarked it. If it wasn't, it shouldn't have been submitted.
Sorry you took offense to that. I just thought people would want to see the older thread since it was pretty popular at the time and the comments seemed useful. I love older posts too, and actually include a section in my weekly Hacker Newsletter project just for them.
Thanks for your careful clarity when describing the Butterfly Effect. (There's a typo there! "in the sense of providing the energy for the hurrincane,")
Search for sad. You get one result {the smilie :( } and you get a tag category. Clicking the tag cat gives me another result, of a broken heart. I couldn't see a way of suggesting a tag for the smilie.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 153 ms ] threadIt has progressed much and I can think of many uses I would put this to.
I use Photoshop 7 for image editing. I look for color inspiration on sites like cssmania.com and dribbble.com. I've used Adobe Kuler a few times. For design, gedit or EditPad Pro. The designs are from scratch but inspiration comes from the sites I mentioned. Sometimes I do rough mockups in Photoshop before I start writing the layout.
Just asking for money isn't going to have that particular issue... :)
Other than this, it's an excellent resource for any iOS project (or anything else, for that matter.)
[0] http://thenounproject.com/category/
http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject_co... http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject_np...
They are grouped by the different authors which makes it easier to find out what license applies. You can search in the different groups by adding a keyword e.g. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Anounproject+pl...
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doneedit: this is also useful
#!/bin/bash
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unzip svg_$i.zip;rm svg_$i.zip
done
Impressive work.
[1] http://blog.thenounproject.com/post/12554806140/the-noun-pro...
The requirements listed on that page are still kind of silly, though, especially for a commercial project, where it requires you to list the attribution right near the use of it. For example: "If your product is listed online, you must include the proper attribution on the same page next to the item you are selling. "
That kind of requirement is just begging to be ignored completely.
It works great, but you have to go to bed at 9PM if you want to get some good sleep. I think the hard part is to keep that habit.
(Also: I've been on HN for a really long time and there are plenty of things that are months — or years — old that I've forgotten about and wouldn't mind seeing again.)
I think this would only be valuable when the first post is more of a "show hn/looking for contributors" and the second is a "this project has come of age and is valuable for the general population".
Otherwise, if it was valuable then, you would've bookmarked it. If it wasn't, it shouldn't have been submitted.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981370
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986921
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003817
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022603
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2629937
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712978
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2720491
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359410
Looks more like a woman then a mermaid.
Thanks for your careful clarity when describing the Butterfly Effect. (There's a typo there! "in the sense of providing the energy for the hurrincane,")
Is there anyway of making the licence clearer?
Search for sad. You get one result {the smilie :( } and you get a tag category. Clicking the tag cat gives me another result, of a broken heart. I couldn't see a way of suggesting a tag for the smilie.