The Icon Handbook
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    • The Icon Handbook
    • Acknowledgements
    • Image Credits
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • Introduction
    • What is an icon?
    • References
    • How I started
    • Susan Kare’s original icons for the Macintosh System Software 1.0
    • Continuing my journey
    • User workflow
    • Overcoming language barriers
    • McDonald’s nutrition icons
    • Expressing emotion
    • New Skype emoticons
    • Icons as souvenirs
    • Gowalla
    • Everything in moderation
    • Summary
    • Before you start
    • Drawing at 16 pixels
    • Five Details favicons
    • Summary
    • The brief
    • Finding the metaphor
    • Stephen Horlander’s RSS icon
    • Starting from scratch
    • Using combinations
    • Using colour
    • The exception to the rule
    • Summary
    • Rules for drawing
    • Tools
    • Sizing
    • Drawing for balance and consistency
    • Drawing for scaling
    • How much detail to include?
    • Draw, pardner! Getting practical
    • Drawn icon set
    • Step 1: What icons do I make?
    • Step 2: Making ’em
    • Step 3: Converting to shapes
    • My three trade secrets
    • Using colour
    • Draw, pardner! №2: This time in colour!
    • DoubleTwist icons by Sebastiaan de With
    • Summary
    • Modern challenges of icon creation
    • Image formats
    • Displaying icons on websites
    • Pictos font
    • Peculiar icons
    • Summary
    • Resolutions
    • LittleSnapper icon (Bartelme Design)
    • Metaphor
    • Process
    • Jono Hunt (Iconaholic)
    • Application icon process drawing inspiration from others
    • Coda icon
    • Windows Vista icons
    • Kaleidoscope icon by Sofa
    • Exporting and testing
    • Conclusion
    • Common icon badges
    • Drawing and creation tools
    • Icon utilities
    • Icon reference chart

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