Mezzoblue
17th Sep 2007, 09:58 pm
There's a whooole lot of new stuff to see in the Icon section of this site. I released my initial set, Chalkwork Basic (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/basic/), earlier in the year with the intention of continuing the family at some point. And today it does, with a new set specifically designed with content and information management systems in mind. It’s called (creatively enough) Chalkwork Information Management (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/information-management/).
http://www.mezzoblue.com/i/articles/2007/sept17-chalkworkupdate.jpg (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/)
I didn’t stop there though. The more I’m doing this, the more tricks I’m picking up along the way. I went back to the first set (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/basic/) and gave some of the original icons a visual refresh. Subtle things that you probably won’t notice unless you have them side by side, but updates that bring the styling of the old set a little more in line with the new one, along with a couple new icons to boot.
Even then, I still wasn’t content to let it rest. Oh no, there’s more. I’ve noticed that it’s common for other icon sets to include minor variations such as "add" and "remove" actions as full-fledged icons within the set. I’m doing things a little differently. For select icons — roughly half of each set — a series of 5 actions is also provided: Add, Remove, Edit, Secure, Sync/Share. Every icon that receives one of these actions receives all five. There’s almost no editorial discretion over which might be more useful than others, just a huge dump of icon variations that are there if you need them.
To give you an idea of how many icons we’re talking about here, Chalkwork Basic originally had 70. Now there are 10 times as many. I count 177 base icons in the Chalkwork family, with an additional staggering 520 variations. All 697 are available in 3 different sizes. And 6 file formats. Yes that was a lot of work. Yes that post gushing about IconBuilder (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/08/30/iconbuilder/) happened for a reason.
If you bought a copy of Chalkwork Basic prior to yesterday, please get in touch for a complimentary upgrade to the new version of the set. Everyone else, go check out the new icony goodness.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/09/17/chalkwork_up/)
http://www.mezzoblue.com/i/articles/2007/sept17-chalkworkupdate.jpg (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/)
I didn’t stop there though. The more I’m doing this, the more tricks I’m picking up along the way. I went back to the first set (http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/basic/) and gave some of the original icons a visual refresh. Subtle things that you probably won’t notice unless you have them side by side, but updates that bring the styling of the old set a little more in line with the new one, along with a couple new icons to boot.
Even then, I still wasn’t content to let it rest. Oh no, there’s more. I’ve noticed that it’s common for other icon sets to include minor variations such as "add" and "remove" actions as full-fledged icons within the set. I’m doing things a little differently. For select icons — roughly half of each set — a series of 5 actions is also provided: Add, Remove, Edit, Secure, Sync/Share. Every icon that receives one of these actions receives all five. There’s almost no editorial discretion over which might be more useful than others, just a huge dump of icon variations that are there if you need them.
To give you an idea of how many icons we’re talking about here, Chalkwork Basic originally had 70. Now there are 10 times as many. I count 177 base icons in the Chalkwork family, with an additional staggering 520 variations. All 697 are available in 3 different sizes. And 6 file formats. Yes that was a lot of work. Yes that post gushing about IconBuilder (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/08/30/iconbuilder/) happened for a reason.
If you bought a copy of Chalkwork Basic prior to yesterday, please get in touch for a complimentary upgrade to the new version of the set. Everyone else, go check out the new icony goodness.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/09/17/chalkwork_up/)