Topic on User talk:Qgil-WMF/Presentation template

I'll try this:

Focus on a select a subset of icons, free/public domain.

Eg. a small collection from The Noun project, for example.

Icons of this kind can be easily be turned into significant and beautiful pictures :

http://playhundreds.com http://responsivemuseum.com/ (ok, this one is a quick project my friend Geoffrey and I did to shake up museums. Still, he cleverly turned icons into a logo, some strong pictures in just a few hours)

That would allow us to build a very simple, clean, modular *and* distinct feel to the template.

I didn't know about http://thenounproject.com/ and it sounds like a very good idea!

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

Yes, the Noun project is fairly new, but it took off very, very fast in the design community. Nearly all my friends who design and/or need to build presentations use it at some point.

It host Public Domain, CC0 and CC-BY icons.

By the way, the great thing is that's a commercial project, AFAIK, so it's a nice exemple of a company creating both external and internal value with free licences.

I'm currently trying something with a small collection of icons - and we should use only CC0 or Public Domain icons.

(Rationale: CC-BY is great, but when building a template that will be used and re-used, it can be a little bit impratical to be sure that everybody will keep track of all the designers they need to attribute too. We don't want to be caught making that kind of mistake. So let's stay on the safe side and use icons that don't need attribution - of course we should be polite and say thank you to the project somewhere.)

Some days ago I found this Agora Icon Set. It makes sense to use those icons whenever they serve the purpose, since they embed the "W" look & feel.

Let's have a look at it to see if that is good, and if not what are we missing. If there are better alternatives for specific icons at The Noun Project then we can just use them and probably propose them to the Agora project.

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To complement the Agora icon set that is focusing more on UI design, here is a selection of CC0/public domain icons from the noun project that might be useful in adding something:

(didn't uploaded the whole selection, just some interesting examples)

Julien, you might also want to look at a similar discussion at Thread:Talk:How to contribute/Icons.