Comments on: Microformatique + MF Icons

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By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:33:53 +0000

Chris

The convo has turned ‘techy’ on my post here about Microformats for the Non-technical. I don’ have the ability to answser some of these comments (a great one from Michael), could you take a look?

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/08/27/understanding-microformats-for-the-non-technical-web-professional-or-marketer/#comments

By: Jan BraÅ¡na

Jan BraÅ¡na — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:51:52 +0000

Great to hear! Looking forward to them. It could be a nice standard as e.g. the RSS icons. Good work.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:52:37 +0000

Hey Jan,

I agree. I do need clean artwork — and as such I’ve asked a friend or two to start work on a new icon set just for microformats.

Not sure how long it will take, but I do take your point!

By: Jan BraÅ¡na

Jan BraÅ¡na — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:33:39 +0000

Maby the “contact-new” from Tango Projcet (http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery) would work? It is far less familiar than the OSX one, but should be “without string attached”…

By: Jan BraÅ¡na

Jan BraÅ¡na — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:15:55 +0000

Maybe the MF icon would fit in the card itself better than the man? I’m also sort of afraid of the licencing issues as the original card and plus sign artwork are copyrighted by Apple if I’m not mistaken. There might be alternatives in the OS/CC world for these.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:16:57 +0000

I actually would just leave the picture out.
For me the card presents ‘information’ and with feed, that is kind of clear. As with address, perhaps something in the background indicating the kind of information (very transparent and a plus sign.

But then again, my dearest brother always said I should not try to do design.

(The man on the picture thing though bothers me a lot more each time I look at it.)

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:04:42 +0000

@John: yup, as stated on the wiki, they’re released under a CC license.

@Josh: agreed.

@Chip: fair enough. The hcard designs are actually ripped off from Apple’s Address Book cards with custom mods… The MF icon came from simplebitsdan. I just cleaned it up and iconized it.

@Nicole: Thanks… I think? But yeah, they are a bit anonymous — would be good to get some real designer on the case!

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:24:53 +0000

They look nice (although a bit anonymous which seems to defeat the purpose).

Good to use though – for a guy.

By: Chip Cuccio

Chip Cuccio — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:01:03 +0000

Great j0rb on the icons.

But .icns?

Where’s the source, Luke? Even Matt hooked up up w/his.