# Icon-wise

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 12, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114 "2008-06-12T17:49:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![w1sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@w1sh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/w1sh)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/1 "2008-06-12T17:49:52Z")

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Icon-wise, what do you think of when you think of (1)Articles, (2)Projects, (3)Community, (4)Account, and (5)Information.  
I was thinking (1)sheet of paper, (2)open file cabinet, (3)msn people, (4)msn person, and (5)the letter “i” in a blue circle, respectively.  
But… that seems so boring. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/2 "2008-06-12T17:57:51Z")

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1. Sheet(s) of paper

2. Tools (Screwdrivers/hammers)

3. Msn-type logo (lol)

4. Singular msn-type icon

5. circled question mark

so pretty muhc similar to what you have, remember icons are first an interface tool, not a design tool… they need to reflect what they represent more than they need to look pretty/interesting

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**Author:** ![w1sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@w1sh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/w1sh)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/3 "2008-06-12T18:01:07Z")

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lol.

■■■■ you Captain Conformity!! You’ll rue the day you agreed with me!

(1) Open book (2) Building blocks (3)…msn people (4)pictures (it’s a picture uploading site) (5)an upside down exclamation mark

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**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/4 "2008-06-12T18:02:36Z")

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Honestly I wrote those down before I even looked at what you had lol

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**Author:** ![w1sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@w1sh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/w1sh)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/5 "2008-06-12T18:17:28Z")

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I bet A List Apart has an article on this. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/6 "2008-06-12T18:32:40Z")

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Just look at the silk icons, they are a great judgment of what icons should probably look at (but they take a while to reproduce the same graphically quality).

What you guys said is the first things that come to mind for me.

Don’t forget rollovers don’t just leave an icon without a rollover description.

//edit, Flash develop uses the block icon for the projects and i think it fits perfectly. If you can do larger than 16x16 do a special folder with different files in it.

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**Author:** ![ajcates](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ajcates/32/2435_2.png) [@ajcates](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ajcates)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/icon-wise/263114/7 "2008-06-12T19:52:21Z")

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A lot of it depends on how your site looks. Your site design plays a big part in what icons you use.