Keylines for Icons

Recently learned an iconography secret: use Keylines. Maybe of you icon genius' out there are probably shaking your heads.. well, you have to learn somehow right? I had been creating all my icons in divisions of 8 (16, 20*, 24, & 32). (20 is cheating but I don’t care.)

Then I did some learning with Noah Jacobus on Icons and he pointed out that you don't need to make every icon a perfect square (what I was doing). You can modify your icon set as long as they still feel like they're part of a family. The Keylines are there to let your icon family be a bit more flexible in the scenario where you're designing a document icon, or an envelope. Doing a square every time gets difficult.

Good stuff Noah. Good to know. 🧠