More and Better Collection Icons
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Norm Gilbert
The icon collection at present is skimpy and often unrelated to the bookmarks.
Suggest a number of new Icon collections in the same style:
1) World Flags icons
2) Great Cities Icons (Arc de Triomphe for Paris, Big Ben for London, the Onion topped buildings for Moscow, etc.
3) Sports activities and Sports Team icons worldwide.
4) Hobbies like Photography, Play Station, Painting, Guitar Playing, Stamp Collecting, Cats, Dogs, Sailing, Hunting, etc.
5) Money & Finance related symbols. Banks, Wall Street, Currency Symbols, Money Transfer, etc.
6) Brand names and logos like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Nikon, Canon, Ford, GM, Mustang, BMW, United Airlines, Delta, Iberia, etc.
7) Typical buildings. Apartment High Rise, Business Tower, Capitol Building, Bank, Restaurant, Church, Small store, supermarket, school, university, etc.
8) Modes of transportation, Cars, trains, airplanes, cruise ships, taxis,
9) Geographic features like a beach, palm trees, mountains, skyline, hiking trail, world globe, compass, amusement park, stadium
10) Anything else that is common and that users like to create bookmark collections around.
A good freelance graphic designer could crank this out in short order. Size, colors, style have already been determined. Just find public domain photos and convert them to stylized icons.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Thanks for such detailed post!
Does you tried to use our icons selector? You can find any icon that you mentioned. Give at a try!
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Norm Gilbert
Rustem Mussabekov: I am sorry Rustem but I do not see the icons sets to which you refer:
Here is the list:
Color Circle
Flat Fun
Hockey
Landscape
Materia Flat Baby
Materia Flat Food Vol 1
Materia Flat Food Vol 2
Materia Flat Halloween Free
Materia Flat Interior Vol 1
Materia Flat Kitchen Vol 1
Materia Flat Multimedia Vol 2 (Where oh where is Multimedia Vol 1?)
Materia Flat Security Vol 1
Materia Flat Security Vol 2
Materia Flat Space
Materia Flat Transport Vol 3 (Vol 1 and Vol 2 not found)
Mix
Round Varieties
Simple Round
Smashicons
Social Flat
Apple Apps
Game of Thrones.
Now the categories are in my opinion horrible for English Speakers.
Why does Social Flat have Microsoft Word, Windows, Adobe, a Basketball, McDonalds, Google Chrome, Mac Finder, One Drive, and Dropbox in that category. None of those are considered Social Media sites or logos.
Now, I just discovered as I was composing this reply, that so many icons are only visible by SEARCHING for them. Skiing, Bowling, Mountain Climbing, the flag of Italy all show up in ICONS8.
BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY ZERO DOCUMENTATION OF THIS SEARCH FEATURE. Search for ICONS in the FAQ and there are Zero results.
I struck out totally looking for San Francisco Giants Baseball Team, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco or Kansas City Chiefs Football team. But a football and a baseball are there, as is the New York Yankees logo. Go figure why only the Yankees, but that is what I found.
When I searched for Flag of Vietnam I got 200 flags in Icon8 and another 100 flags in Iconfinder. One of them is likely the flag of Vietnam. Would you be able to recognize it and pull it out of 300 other flag icons?
No legend or names under the icons but some of them are so obvious labeling them would be silly. But for some of them like flags and company logos, roll over pop up legends would be great and it would be a bonus if as the icons are rolled over, they get a little bigger when the mouse pauses over them, so we can see the detail.
I found icons for General Electric, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines (I think. Because it was just the tail), and Iberia. But Jet Blue, Alaska Airlines, Mexicana, Lufthansa, Air France, and many more were missing.
Again some famous cities were there. Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, New York and Los Angeles were all represented. But nothing suitable for Moscow, Athens, Amsterdam, Cairo, Istanbul, Tokyo or Chicago. The Golden Gate Bridge does not show up when searching for San Francisco, but can be found under Bridge.
Five icons for generic pizza but none for Pizza Hut. A few icons for live chickens, one drumstick, a taco, but not KFC the largest seller of fried chicken in the world.
We've got a excellent collection of car company icons. Ford, Tesla, Mazda, Toyota, Chevrolet, Land Rover, Cadillac, Buick, BMW, Porsche, Renault Dodge RAM, Volkswagen and Lexus. Only one notably missing is GM, General Motors. We've got GMC but no GM.
So I'd say there is still some work to do, but not as much as I originally suspected.
Document the need to SEARCH, implement the roll-over legends and enlargement and then try to fill in what's notably absent.
I'd say you are about 80-85% of the way there.