Intro to Icons
Learn the fundamentals of icon design in 1 hour
Intro to Icons launched on May 22, 2017 with 24 votes, #737 of 3,229 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
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"Intro to Icons" is an online course with 30 fast–paced videos by Matt D. Smith. Join the MDS email list and get it FREE. We’ll walk through a handful of existing apps, examine their icon usage, and cover the three most important traits all icon sets need. Rectangles, circles, and lines. That's really all we need to design most interface icons. Let's put simple geometry to work! SVG code can be intimidating, so we’ll demistify the language behind the shapes and learn how powerful it can be when used correctly. 👋 I’m glad you asked. My name is Matt D. Smith and I run my own independent design studio in Athens, GA—and have done so for the last decade. I design lots of websites, apps, and…from introtoicons.com
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