[Yourtopia] YourTopia Icons

Wed Apr 25 14:14:36 BST 2012

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Rosamaria Bitetti <
rosamaria.bitetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> what about this for health?
> http://thenounproject.com/noun/family-practice/#icon-No579 the other one
> is too similar to the education one...
>
>
Yes, they are similar , we could use this one for health.

> something more nature-like for environment?
> http://thenounproject.com/noun/tree/#icon-No2141
>

Similar to the Millennium Development Goals icon, yet I would bet on the
renewable energy aspect for this one

>
> dirk's one for inequality is cool, but should be like the others
>

@Dirk, do you still have the original raw file as a vector image - you can
try to turn it black and white and see how it looks like.

>
> i'm not really sure I get the safety one... I know is a negative image,
> but I only found the gun as a more understandable alternative
> http://thenounproject.com/noun/gun/#icon-No138
>

Confused, we have the gun currently which is negative.

Alternatively, we could have a lock:
http://thenounproject.com/noun/gun/#icon-No138

or teddybear? http://thenounproject.com/noun/teddy-bear/#icon-No610 (à
la Millennium Development Goals)

>
> and social life: not that I want to bias the user toward this indicator,
> but can we have something warmer? is weddings and divorce and friends, can
> we have a hearth or shaking hands?
>

The current one is the standard community icon, but alternatively:

http://thenounproject.com/noun/handshake/#icon-No767
http://thenounproject.com/noun/couple/#icon-No1014

>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 05:59, Velichka Dimitrova <
> velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Could we do it in black and white to match the other ones.
>>
>>  You can upload it as well to the Noun Project, what do you think?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Dirk Heine <dirk.heine at cantab.net>wrote:
>>
>>> It is good that we are replacing the previous icons with ones in public
>>> domain. There was one, however, that we made ourselves for Yourtopia 1 -
>>> the one for inequality. Is the alternative from noun project communicating
>>> equity better?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Velichka Dimitrova <
>>> velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have marked with bold the Noun Project icons that we should use for
>>>> the categories:
>>>>
>>>> Labour Market - http://thenounproject.com/noun/briefcase/#icon-No401
>>>> Education - http://thenounproject.com/noun/report-card/#icon-No729
>>>> Health - http://thenounproject.com/noun/medical-clipboard/#icon-No1675
>>>> Environment - http://thenounproject.com/noun/wind-farm/#icon-No2075
>>>> Equality / Family Income -
>>>> http://thenounproject.com/noun/human-rights/#icon-No759
>>>> Science - http://thenounproject.com/noun/laboratory/#icon-No584
>>>> Safety - http://thenounproject.com/noun/police-lineup/#icon-No1262
>>>> Social Life - http://thenounproject.com/noun/community/#icon-No288
>>>>
>>>> This is maybe how it would look like to have a combined image of all
>>>> eight: http://i.imgur.com/yrPRy.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Are you happy with these icons or do you have other suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Velichka
>>>>
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