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First Icon Glyphs

by Sara Menefee Pro Jan 10, 2012
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9 Responses

  1. Pro Me Sara Menefee

    Here are a few rough renderings of what I'll be doing for my first glyph set.

    I realize they still need a lot of work. This was a ~1 hour project.

    Any advice and suggestions for creating (mini) glyphs would be appreciated.

    Once complete these will be available for free for developers to use privately and commercially.

    5 months ago

  2. Pro Curious me Anthony Lagoon

    Love the direction. I wonder how those thin lines will render when the icons are smaller… if you intend for them to be smaller.

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    5 months ago

  3. Pro Me Sara Menefee

    @Anthony This is my first time making glyphs. :-\ Definitely something I should think about. Haven't decided what dimensions these icons will be available in. Most likely in 32 × 32, 24 × 24, and 16 × 16. We'll see. Hm.

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    5 months ago

  4. Pro 5f6fc93e412a5e447d3e5d99a653fbe9 Jake Downs

    Great start. Love the style. Some tips for going even more mini:
    • Try showing the pixel grid and zooming wayy in.
    • Use the pencil tool to draw instead of vector shapes.
    • Make sure image resampling is set to nearest neighbor when scaling.
    • Turn off type anti-aliasing.

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    5 months ago

  5. Pro 5f6fc93e412a5e447d3e5d99a653fbe9 Jake Downs

    I think the only thing that stands out to me is the seal on the letter looks off. Maybe try filling the negative space. (Kind of comes off as a weird camera or something at first glance)

    5 months ago

  6. Pro Me Sara Menefee

    @Jake I actually tried that and it looked strange. I can try messing with things and try to get something that looks less strange.

    5 months ago

  7. Pro Nor Nor Sanavongsay

    Looking good. great start. +1 What Jake said. But if you want to keep them in vectors, you'll have to reshape the shapes at various sizes. Vectors scale best x2. So going from 16 to 32 or vice versa will retain it's shape better than 16 to 24. Vectors are math coordinates after all. For glyphs, I always work at the smallest size first, then scale up. More detailed icons I do largest, then scale down. But I find reshaping vectors a lot less stressful than repainting pixels. Just my 2 pennies. Hope that helps! good luck!

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    5 months ago

  8. Curved Matthew Westrik

    These look pretty cool. Has potential for sure!

    5 months ago

  9. Pro Untitled-2 Mani

    nice!

    4 months ago

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