Universal Social Icon
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- set3
- speaks more to save than share... heart implies personal? kinda like an instagram like. I do like the icon a lot.monospaced
- I see what you mean. In a sense you are saving them though if you follow/like them on a social platform. It's showing an interest and keeping tabset
- Can't believe you're still stuck to this. This screams "I just got my heart checked at the health clinic". Way too medical.iCanHazQBN
- I don't think heart is the best symbol for social mediareanimate
- Anyway would it be problematic to use an icon that no one knows the meaning of?reanimate
- Most commonly used icons have taken years for the public to learn the meaningreanimate
- True but still, you have to start somewhere.qoob
- wut mono saidmoldero
- What moldero saidpango
- omg3
- Δomg
- the triangle is a universal iconomg
- yeah, but a triangle doesn’t stand for anything specific. It stands for delta in sciences and can mean a variety of things there depending on the field...pressplay
- ...but in the context of a website I wouldn’t know where it leads to...pressplay
- Um, we don't get icons from math Mr Spock. Try againqoob
- Of course icons come from math. Are you slow or something?reanimate
- georgesIII2
- also quite similar to the previous example, but I may say it looks strongergeorgesIII
- love this hahaset
- hahamoldero
- hans_glib0
nice idea, but doesn't the share icon already fulfil both roles?
ie the idea of shoving stuff out to your network.- i mean it's not perfect , but like the "hamburger", it has become accepted shorthand for share/socialhans_glib
- It doesn't, no. The share icon is to share a specific page or piece of content, the social icon simply takes you to the profile page on the social platformset
- For instance, in the header you have a row of social icons that take you off to the brands profile on each platform. The social icon would represent these iconsset
- (when there's not enough room for multiple)set
- set1
There are definitely a few out there, but nothing universal.
I like the idea of coming up with one, even if it's a cleaned up version of something that already exists, and maybe creating a dedicated website for it, sharing it and getting it to go viral so that we can finally have a widely recognisable icon for social.
Definitely a proverbial hole that needs to be filled...
- Who's up for a little project?set
- not a bad idea at all.renderedred
- cannonball19780
It's the share icon in reverse?
- set0
Fuck "...but there isn't a universal SOCIAL icon"
Let's create a universal social icon and spread it far and wide amongst the interwebs.
- CygnusZero40
Ive seen some use a profile of a head with the mouth open, like its talking. Hardly universal but it worked.
- monNom0
^ put these in a cloud, with a giant all seeing eye above them.
- docpoz1
I like the dung with the people in it and the eyeball. Seems right.