It’s like the whole web has come to the conclusion that icons have to be monochrome and boring. Why? What is this group-think? Why do other styles of icons “look dated”? I have nothing against the “metro” or “modern” (by m$) style per se. Like all designs it has its strengths and weaknesses. But I miss variety, Icon-sets (or websites for that matter) with personality. “metro” used to have personality, but has long since lost it because everything looks the same.
Anyone here remember the silk icons? [1]
I’m not arguing they are superior.
But moar variety please: “silk icons”, “flat icons”, “silly icons”, “school icons”, “cartoon icons”…
</rant>[1]: http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/preview.php
nyanpasu64|3 years ago
Similarly, Visual Studio actually comes with an icon library at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/..., though 2012 sadly switched from 3D icons (a mixed bag, some beautiful ones and then some awful ones like a downscaled yellow-shaded XP-era exclamation point triangle) to flat line art indistinguishable from today's icon style except in having backgrounds. You can find "totally legal" offline downloads of VS2010 on archive.org (the online installer is down).
3dGrabber|3 years ago
Someone made the effort and ported them to .svg [1]
Donationware
[1]: https://codefisher.org/pastel-svg/