Icons are a simple, effective way to draw users into the content of your website. Today’s icon set consists of a set of icons in two styles (flat and light gradient). The icons have been carefully designed by PixelBuddha and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It’s completely free to use for commercial or personal applications without any restrictions.
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Today, we’re pleased to feature an icon set that will help make the wait for summer to finally arrive, worthwhile. In this piece you will find an icon set that includes 50 icons that have been designed by Elena Genova exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. If you’ve been looking for a way to freshen up your designs with even more colors, then this freebie will not disappoint you.
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This freebie contains 60 icons that have been designed in both round and flat styles, and can be used for free without any restrictions and serve various design purposes. Crafted with great attention to detail, today’s icon set is extremely easy to use and will most probably be the next ultimate resource for any of your design projects. Feel free to modify the size, color or shape of the icons, and use the icons in your commercial as well as your personal projects.
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Today, we’re honored to present to you a set of 60 vector round icons, Released exclusively for Smashing Magazine! Crafted with great attention to detail and cleverly designed by the creative trio at Roundicons, this icon set is extremely easy to use and will most probably be the next ultimate resource for any one of your design projects. Feel free to modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required. However, reselling of bundles or individual pictograms is not allowed.
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We usually export images for the Web from our favorite graphics software. Our eyes fixate on an image’s preview, adjusting the quality settings until we’ve found that sweet spot, where the file size and quality are both the best they can be. After having gone to all that care and effort, we would be forgiven for thinking that our image is in the best shape possible, but that’s not always the case. In fact, much more data is usually left in such files, data that keeps our users waiting just a bit longer than necessary. Thankfully, a number of popular tools can help us optimize images even further!
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Two years ago, Portuguese graphic and type designer Natanael Gama started to play with glyphs — as a way to discover typography. Doodling around, he created Exo, a font which he released for free in a Kickstarter project which turned out to be quite successful, and Natanael did a complete redesign. Today, he is no longer a student and Exo has evolved into Exo 2.0, an elegant, contemporary geometric sans serif typeface.
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In this article, we feature a set of 54 flat icons created and designed by Nick Frost and Greg Lapin. If you are looking for a way to make your design fresh and expressive, then this freebie is the answer. It includes 36 icons drawn from a full commercial set available on Smallicons, plus 18 icons designed exclusively for Smashing Magazine.
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Many designers and design teams make the mistake of thinking that their work is done once they’ve completed the visual design stage, and this is where Specctr can help. Specctr is a plugin for Adobe applications, which transitions a visual design to production by enabling you to specify form and function. It automatically generates a specification and creates a blueprint for the design, which saves a lot of time!
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In this article, we are honoured to present to you Nice Things a set of 128 original, beautiful icons that Chris Behr came up with while playing around with the Shape tools in Illustrator. He casually divided a square into a grid and then randomly colored it. Then he combined the grid with a couple of icons that he had been doodling. Let’s see the results!
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Today, we’re proud to feature a free Photoshop extension, BlendMe.in, that will help everyone access those font icons they need without even leaving Photoshop. Please note that this will reset all Photoshop settings to default. Enjoy!
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