Standard icons

An Swedish company (Funka.nu) has together with the Swedish Riksdag (something like the parliament) developed standard icons to use freely. Standards are good, right? But standard icons, is this really any good? First of all, I think the icons used do not look any good. They are only one size, why not a vector format so the sites can use the size they want, check out the Tango project as an example. They say that it is OK to change the colours. But they are also inconsistent , mostly with the PDF document, the word document icon and the rest. Also check out the famfamfam icons, they look good, I understand most of them, and they look great. Maybe it would have been better if they could agree on a metaphor for an icon, then let the designer decide how they would look like.

What do think?

• Standard icons at Funk.nu (Swedish)
• The Swedish Riksdag (Swedish)
• The Tango project
• Famfamfam

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