Thousands of high-quality premium icon sets and hundreds of great free sets are available.Įvery icon set submitted to Iconfinder is reviewed and evaluated for potential appeal to our website users and for potential commercial value as premium icons. Icon and vector marketplaces like Iconfinder (where I work) are making well-designed vector icons an inexpensive and readily available resource for web and print designers. Part of becoming a great designer is learning when to break the rules and when to follow them, as we will demonstrate here. The six steps discussed in this article should be seen as a guide, not a dogmatic list of rules. The principles of effective icon design have been discussed at length by icon designer John Hicks of Hicks Design in his book The Icon Handbook, as well as by Google in its material design guidelines for system icons. The steps follow the basics of sound icon design, including consistency, legibility and clarity. This article discusses a set of design guidelines in six steps.
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