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obligatory susan kare mention - her icons were amazing.

I started making my own small, monochrome icons for a personal project (https://anachronomicon.coldewey.cc/), trying to make them reasonably small while also intelligible, and it's hard once you go below 24 pixels or so! I haven't stuck to any standard size either, but I might later. 32 seems luxurious to me now.

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> I started making my own small, monochrome icons for a personal project (https://anachronomicon.coldewey.cc/), trying to make them reasonably small while also intelligible,

It's hard to actually tell from the images on the site (they are all really really large and you can usually only tell the quality of an icon by seeing it at the size the user would).

Any chance you could make a small addition to your site so that your set of icons is displayed at 100% size? Right now it's scaled up about 1500% of the original size.

heh yes I do plan on doing something like that. it was just a little hobby thing I threw together last year. I've been meaning to harmonize the styles a bit and put small versions in the body text. Putting them at pixel-perfect size though they are very small!

She sells great prints of the original icons, I have two on my walls and I really enjoy them: https://kareprints.com

had no idea, thanks for the link.

Nice project. The icon sizes seem a bit too inconsistent, but if that's what your projects need, I guess you must have your reasons.

oh for sure I made no attempt to make them regular, not to mention some are Kare's. I was trying to make them as small as possible but that leads to its own kind of confusion.

That just adds to my confusion. Some like the chain icon are really small and have minimal detail. Others like the trashcan are huge, and definitely not as small as it could be while still conveying it's meaning clearly

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