Small dents in the IndieWeb · Paul Robert Lloyd
Paul has been doing so much fantastic work with the indie web community, not least of which is co-organising Indie Web Camp Brighton—just ten days away now!
A cohesive and unified identity for IndieWeb protocols · Paul Robert Lloyd
I really enjoyed hanging out with Paul at Indie Web Camp in Nuremberg last weekend. And I like the iconography he’s proposing:
This design attempts to bring together a set of icons that share the concept of a node – a line and a point – and use this to add counters to each letter shape.
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Remix Icon - Open source icon library
I love how easy it is to use these icons: you can copy and paste the SVG or even get it encoded as a data URL.
Round 1: post your ideas / designs · Issue #1 · works-offline/logo
This is an interesting push by Remy to try to figure out a way we can collectively indicate to users that a site works offline.
Well, seeing as browsers have completely dropped the ball on any kind of ambient badging, it’s fair enough that we take matters into our own hands.
The ineffectiveness of lonely icons | Matt Wilcox, Web Developer & Tinkerer
When in doubt, label your icons.
When not in doubt, you probably should be.
Evolving the Firefox Brand - Mozilla Open Design
I’m impressed by Mozilla’s commitment to designing in the open—one of the hardest parts of any kind of brand work is getting agreement, and this process must make that even more difficult.
I have to say, I quite like both options on display here.