[open-energy] Icons

Thu Jan 27 13:03:37 GMT 2011

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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