Icons are an essential feature of any website. These are usually small graphics or symbols that provide a high quality visual representation. A telephone icon for example, conveys the internationally recognized symbol for “call us”, without needing to include the words. So to help your potential customers find what they need, quickly and easily, an icon can be the best option. But finding the right icons can really slow down the web design process. That’s why, here at Pumpkin Web Design Manchester, we use the Noun Project. So what is this project? And why do we think its the bees knees?
What is the Noun Project?
Here at Pumpkin Web Design Manchester, we work with companies and businesses across Manchester, and the surrounding region, including Southport and Wigan . And no matter which industry these businesses work in, or what demographic these businesses are targeting, icons will be a necessary inclusion for any successful website. And that’s where the Noun Project really shines.
The Noun Project is all about creating and sharing globally recognized icons that are visually appealing and capable of breaking down communication barriers. In web design, icons are all about replacing words, so that designs can be as visual as possible, and as clean as possible. And this means that the Noun Project has the perfect goal in mind, for icons suitable for websites. In fact, they can offer more than 2 million icons created by graphic designers across the globe!
Professional icons made easy
You can access run of the mill icons from a range of different sources online. And these are great, if you want a run of the mill website. What the Noun Project provides are icons that are professionally designed, with intricate differences and nuances that allow different icons to suit different web design styles.
In addition, they also offer:
- Full customization- from the angle to the colour, you can edit these icons to fit your website perfectly. In fact, you can even use hex values to change the colour of the icons to blend in perfectly with your website coour scheme. So you can be sure that any icons you use, will make your web design pop.
- Collections- the collections of icons make it incredibly easy to find any icon you can think of. Even something as specific as a wrench has more than 4,000 different icon designs, organised into 90 different collections.
- SVG & PNG Files- so that you can work in whichever format suits you and your website.
- Global creators- one thing that can cause problems for websites and web designers is the meaning of different icons, around the world. Different icons can mean different things to website users in different countries. So if you are trying to reach a multi-national audience, you need to be aware of the cultural significance of your chosen icons. The Noun Project works with global creators, and this makes it easier for websites to be globally appealing.
So for professional icons made easy, check out the Noun Project. And for any professional web design support or advice, get in touch with Manchester’s leading experts today, here at Pumpkin Web Design Manchester.