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max388
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4h ago
Am I the only one who thinks designers should hand-code their own icon sets instead of buying them?
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hugo37
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1d ago
Just realized I burned $340 on a 'hand-coded' icon set I could have drawn myself in an afternoon
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zarak18
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2d ago
A print shop guy told me my font's lowercase g was broken and now I check 3 sizes before exporting
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bailey.xena
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3d ago
TIL my hand coded px font from 3 years ago still renders sharper in Safari than the variable one I built last month
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nancy3
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4d ago
Spent 2 hours last night trying to hand-code an SVG icon grid, and my viewBox math was off by 0.5 the whole time
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green.mason
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4d ago
Showerthought: a font designer at a meetup in Chicago told me to draw my lowercase 'g' backwards first, and it actually worked
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the_brooke
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6d ago
A guy at a Portland type meetup said my kerning tool felt 'too smart' and he was right
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riley58
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6d ago
Spent 6 hours chasing a 1px gap in my hand coded icon set, and I blame the grid
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ivancoleman
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7d ago
Hot take: your hand-coded icon set does not need 24 styles and 3 weight variations to be useful
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rowan_anderson
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8d ago
Update: I spent 3 weeks hand-kerning my font's lowercase g and the fix was in the export settings
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the_ben
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9d ago
Shoutout to plain CSS variables over my old Sass setup for icon sizing
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olivia_barnes97
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14d ago
Went from hand-coded SVGs to a font tool for my icon set, honestly relieved
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lily_sullivan82
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15d ago
One critique about my icon set's corners changed everything, and it stung
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jamesblack
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15d ago
My kerning script was silently distorting every glyph for 8 months
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barbara429
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21d ago
Hand-coding color palettes vs using a generator, which side are you on?
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