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20 July 2010

Nice Paul’s Nice Icons

By Keir Whitaker

Freelance user experience designer Paul Annett, formlerly of ClearLeft, has released a rather sweet set of social media icons which he describes as:

“…cleaner – simplified without all the bevels, gradients, and rounded corners”

For more on the inspiration behind the set and how the BBC News came to use them on their recent redesign read Paul’s article.

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Keir Whitaker

After a number of years working on web projects for the NHS Keir spent a few years freelancing before joining Carsonified in February 2008. Having helped out across all areas of the company he now focuses on Think Vitamin. You can follow him on Twitter

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  Darren

  # July 20, 2010 - 2:11 pm

  The BBC News link is returning a 404 for me.

  You can read about the BBC redesign on their Editors blog here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/bbc_news_website/

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  Keir Whitaker

  # July 20, 2010 - 2:16 pm

  Hey Darren, thanks for the heads up. It appears a trailing slash creates a 404 for that URL. It’s just a habit of mine to add them at the end. Should work fine now.

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  Jae Xavier

  # July 20, 2010 - 8:35 pm

  I’ve seen blogs that have more than 10 social media related icons. Its ridiculous and funny at the same time.

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  Brad Sherrill

  # July 21, 2010 - 2:00 am

  Nice clean icons I like them.

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