This is something of an experiment: Helvetica social Icons that are 99% made with the type tool in Photoshop.
The idea came about when I flirted with using icons on this blog, and didn’t really care for all the cartoony, glossy, and web 2.0 type ones available. Although so many are really beautifully made, they just aren’t really my style. So, I created these. Something a little different =)
Apart from the coloured backgrounds in some, everything is made with the type tool in Photoshop and variations of the Helvetica font. I would have dug to have done vectors for these, but at the moment I don’t have a good vector app like Adobe Illustrator in my pocket.
I’ve included all the Photoshop files, so that you can see how they were constructed. They are free to download and use.
As far as I know, there aren’t really any typographical icons around the web, so If anyone expands on this idea, please let me know – I’d love to see what you’ve done! Credit would be awesome if you use them, but I would just like to see more people creating these kind of icons, and maybe taking the idea to a new level.
Here they are: typo-icons.zip
Here’s a brief rundown of the 8 icons:
LastFM icon
Digg Icon
Delicious icon
Flickr icon
Twitter icon
Facebook icon
RSS icon
Design Float icon
As you can see, I’ve used them in the re-design of this blog. If you dig them let me know.
Good one dude!
Very cool icons man. Love the Twitter icon. :)
Thanks guys!
10 out of 10 for originality. Brilliant idea, as Matty said, the Twitter one is ingenious, love it.
Gonna link to it on LoveHelvetica if thats ok.
Graham
Amazing work – I love the DIGG and Twitter one.
And a brilliant idea too. Keep up the fantastic work :)
Jay
@im_Jay
Thanks for the comment Graham. I’d be honoured if you linked to it on LoveHelvetica!
Thank you for the encouragement Jay. I wish I could have also done the rest in the same way – by using type to create the image, but with the others it was just wasn’t possible =)
That RSS icon is sexy! Nice work!
Wogan, I reckon you must have an inner designer in you. Only designers call icons sexy =) Thanks for the compliment man!
Insanely cool icons and awesome new design. Belated congrats and well done!
Ah, thanks man Nico!
Found your work from sharebrain on the comment about Helvetwitca :D this is awesome! Very fresh!
Thanks Monika. Dig what you did Helvetwitca idea.
Nice job.
Very Rock’n'Roll
excellent. unique. inspiring. thanks.
Damn…the twitter icon is super-nice…love it!
Shot! Thanks for the cool feedback :)
Neat Icon Pack! :)
Thanks for stopping by Cheth. Considering all the awesome icon sets I’ve seen you do, that’s a very cool compliment.
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Love these icons! Definetly going to be using them in my sites redesign!
Cool Andrew thanks. Be sure to drop another comment when it’s done so I can check it out.
I think the RSS one using the Helvetica braces is genius
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