Stock icons geared toward CMS use from the great folks at Firewheel. I wish we could use something like this in WP. Don’t buy them for us! Read the comments.
Stock icons geared toward CMS use from the great folks at Firewheel. I wish we could use something like this in WP. Don’t buy them for us! Read the comments.
Could we start up a collection to buy the rights to them?
Buying them isn’t a problem, but I think if they were distributed with WordPress they would be unfairly pirated and that would hurt the Firewheel guys. Also there are probably licensing implications with the GPL and whatever license they’re under. What would be awesome if we could get someone to let us use maybe smaller or a limited set of icons under the GPL and bundle them with WordPress, and then they could use that publicity to sell a larger set of icons.
How about using Scrow’s icons (or glyphs). They’ve been used in many applications (like wbloggar) for free.
It would be great if we could get someone to design icons of that quality. By “buy the rights to them” I mean actually buying the rights to them if those rights are available, putting it under the GPL and then distributing with WP. Maybe they’d be up for the advertising in exchange for icons idea?
This shouldn’t be a ‘Make-Or-Buy-Discussion’.
WP got a great community. They will find someone to make icons for WP… with fit to the standard layout.
I don’t like the idea of costumizing WP around some icons. The other way around is the true thing. 😉
Dan seems to be feeling the icon love lately.
To quote Dan after creating ‘Overcast’
Now I am stunned: Icons for more then ‘a few 50 bucks’.
Maybe I should think one more time about my current job…
Just an idea…probably the guys at IconFactory would be willing to “donate” icons for an Open Source project like WordPress.
This is a good idea, an icon contest could be the way to go. Or maybe somebody can get Dan Cederholm (he has some nice icons set) to make some on-purpose.
Matt, I saw the “don’t buy them for us” and it’s pretty clear that packaging the icons would be quite vile as you have noted. I’m sure we will not have a shortage of people who will be willing to help with making a WP icon set; although I am still confused as to its licensing. Should it be released under the GPL, or under some other licensing terms that other stock icon makers relase them under, like Everaldo, etc?
I second the contest idea. That way several good ideas or sets could come out of the process.
Yeah a contest would be a great idea, I’m sure there are lots of us out there who would eagerly participate.
What about taking some icons from a GPLed project like Gnome or Openoffice icons? Maybe we can ask Jakub “jimmac” Steiner if we can use some of his icons?
Don’t know if this is possible but I think it would be worth trying.
I was thinking about this idea of icons for WP, and I have some questions. First of all, do you think that one set of icons would be enough? Not just for esthetic reasons, but for functionality? Think of the international flavour of WP users; does icon ‘A’ mean anything to someone from culture ‘B’?
What of usability and accessibility concerns? Perhaps there aren’t many, but I’m just asking the question. Localization efforts surely must be easier with text-based buttons rather than icons.
I for one won’t jump on the icon bandwagon. I think that while icons can be really cool, they are very personal in that colour, size, and ease of indentification of function varies so much from person to person. There are more important things to be adding to WordPress than icons.