This week’s Design Share is a website called The Noun Project.
The Noun Project is basically a search engine platform for monochrome icons. For a subscription fee, they also offer downloadable files of the icons. It’s one of the best icon websites I’ve ever encountered, with sleeker polished designs and a search-engine algorithm that seems smarter and more intuitive, showing you the results you want rather than throwing so many variations at you to sell files as much as they can.
Why I shared: In our work, there are often times that we need visuals for vague topics like “integrated islet distribution program,” etc. The Noun Project has helped me key in words like “distribution” or “research” and reveal monochrome-icon results that are varied, tidy, and creative — above all, the search is fast. I easily discover ideas for the visuals I need using this tool much more quickly than skimming through hundreds of istock/getty or google search results.
I have only recently found The Noun Project, so let us know if you discover anything else cool about it and which tools you use if you have any!
Have a great weekend!
– Jane