[open-energy] Icons

Thu Jan 27 13:05:44 GMT 2011

Ok, thanks. Good to know.

Am 27.01.2011 14:03, schrieb Jonathan Gray:
> Dear Gregor,
>
> The icons you have pointed to are really nice, but, in order to make
> sure that we and others don't have problems reusing or redistributing
> the visualisations we produce downstream, it would be good to make
> sure that everything we do is open as in opendefinition.org.
>
> Here are some other fully open icon collections:
>
> http://ckan.net/tag/icons
>
> If you need further help looking for these I'd be happy to help look into this.
>
> As an aside I have had a long running interest in creating a large,
> beautiful and freely reusable collection of pictograms for use in open
> data projects (a bit like Otto Neurath's Isotype Institute did in the
> 1930s). I'd be very pleased if we now have an excuse to look into
> making this! ;-)
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich at pudo.org>  wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gregor Aisch<gka at vis4.net>  wrote:
>>> just thought a bit about the details of the visual style I'm going to use
>>> for the energy visualization. I kind of like the style of WDMMG and would
>>> suggest to adapt it as far as possible (fonts&  colors).
>> Great idea, if these two look related it would be fantastic.
>>
>>> What do you think about thís icon style?
>>>
>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-14220065-icon-set-energy-and-industry.php
>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11257146-icon-set-environment.php
>> There's also a lot of good icons on WikiCommons, see here:
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Symbols
>>
>> They're often PD, so its an excellent resource!
>>
>> Friedrich
>>
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