Icons – Google Fonts
I am sorry but I am going to be <i>that</i> guy. Iconography has regressed so much, it&#x27;s all the same optically to me. Designers keep pushing minimalism and line-graphics to &quot;reduce crud&quot; like its some sort of a religion. We can&#x27;t distinguish icons well. There is no effort put into making them more unique and recognizable. What a horrible cult.<p>Check out these glorious past remnants that we&#x27;ve forgotten about, they were so uhhh <i>iconic</i> : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.famfamfam.com&#x2F;lab&#x2F;icons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.famfamfam.com&#x2F;lab&#x2F;icons&#x2F;</a><p>We love to see someone take Fam Fam Fam icons and create SVG versions of them. Iconography takes time and effort and enormous amount of patience, skill. You can&#x27;t do this in a week in illustrator which is how it seems most icons are designed today. We&#x27;ve become lazy, want free stuff and no one is incentivized to spend 2 years creating amazing icons. The market for paid icons doesn&#x27;t exist and we&#x27;ve done this to ourselves because we&#x27;re addicted to free stuff.<p>Google services icons? All impossible to tell apart now. Apple macOS dock? They use to be different shapes and sizes, now they are all chicklet squares in macOS Big Sur. Apple fired the guy (Forstall) that was the brilliant mind behind Apple&#x27;s approach to UI way back in 2013. Since then, Apple UI design sucks.<p>It is all getting worse, day by day, icon by icon. Iconography was a discipline people took seriously before 2010&#x27;s. Windows 95, 98, XP icons were so amazing. They thought deeply about it. No one gives a shit anymore.