Posts Tagged Icons
I came across these interesting icons on IBM’s site today, which are all part of creating a smarter planet, whatever that means. I’m trying to decide what I think of them.
While they are quirky and interesting to look at, most of them don’t convey any sort of meaning, which I believe is an important component of a good icon.
Nor do they scale very well, as you can see from their use in the mega menu below:
What’s also interesting is that many of these icons have avoided following any conventions for how certain icons should look. For example, the security icon does not include a representation of a lock and the analytics icon does not use any kind of graph or chart in its design.
I imagine that they represent part of a larger branding initiative, which you can see when you click through to a page represented by an icon. However, it’s questionable whether this is more important than actually making the icons useful.
At the end of the day, these icons are clever but are they any good?
Currently, Twitter is 1 of the most popular social networking sites. Most blogger are therefore interested in adding some twitter icons to their blog, so that their readers can submit their article to Twitter quickly, or just find their Twitter account and follow it. Here we’ve collected together some of the best twitter icons we have come across online. Surely you’ll find one that suits your site!
For the code to add a twitter button to your blog, read Social Bookmarking Link Codes . And if you want to add some RSS buttons to your blog, you can visit the RSS Icons and Best Free Icons that we collected together to choose a great icon for your blog.
