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Update #13: Glyphish has grown!

Posted on October 16

Two years after this Kickstater project, I'm pleased to say Glyphish now contains 400 amazing icons, each in two sizes, two colors and vector format.

They're used in many well-known iPhone apps, plus some big names like Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, IDEO and CERN.

Head over to the Glyphish website to preview the whole set of 400 – still just $25!

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Update #12: Icons sent to backers, project closed

Posted on June 25, 2009

Thanks very much for your support. The full icon set has been sent out to everyone backing this project.

Be on the lookout for more icons and resources in the future. I have a set of icons for Android apps in the works, and a bunch more for iPhone toolbars/navbars.

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      Joseph Wain on June 29, 2009

      Lorelei -- I sent you a message. If you don't receive it, please send a message to me with your email address.

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      Jameson Quave on April 13, 2011

      I never received the icons, can you message me with a valid link or e-mail the icons to me? I pledged $25.

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      Joseph Wain on April 13, 2011

      Hi Jameson -- drop me an email: hello at glyphish dot com

Update #11: Backers: download your icons here!

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Update #10: Icons for backers coming tomorrow

Posted on June 21, 2009

If you're a backer of this project, tomorrow night you'll receive a message with a link to the full set of 100 icons in bitmap and Illustrator format. (The last 20 are cool; check 'em out here: http://twitpic.com/817wq ) The "public" set only contains the first 80, so use those extra 20 while they're hot.

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      Marcel Mansfeld on June 23, 2009

      Hey Joseph. Thanks for your good work! With the new iPhone 3GS Google Maps brings now two different icons for locating me and rotating the map in the right direction (by using the compass). You can see that here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g-s/maps-compass.html.

      Would be nice if you could add such an icon, too. I will need that for my first iPhone App :)

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      Andre Deutmeyer on June 24, 2009

      Joseph out of curiosity have you sent out the URL for the backers set yet? If you have I have not received anything. :(

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      Sebastiaan Kooijman on June 25, 2009

      I was also wondering if you have sent out the URL yet? The latest new icons are lovely!

Update #9: Weekend update

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Update #8: Project closed - success!

Posted on June 15, 2009

I raised 364% of my initial goal! I've been busy putting together a package of icons and stuff for everyone to download, and it'll be available later this week.

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      George Mandis on June 15, 2009

      Awesome. Are there going to be vector versions? I actually started using a couple of these in a project recently and would love to be able to scale them up just slightly.

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      Andy Baio on June 15, 2009

      Congratulations!

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      Joseph Wain on June 15, 2009

      George: yes, the full set in vector format will be available later this week.

Update #7: Seven days and five icons remaining

Posted on June 8, 2009

Huge thanks to everyone backing this project. It's pretty gratifying to see such interest.

This kickstart closes in 7 days, and sometime shortly there after I'll publish the entire set of (what will be) 100 icons. You can see the existing 80 on glyphish.com currently and 15 not yet released here: http://www.twitpic.com/6vnc7 I need to make just 5 more to make the set a full 100.

Probably what I'll do is put the existing 80 up for download, and email all project backers separately with a link to the full 100. That means the last 20 in the set would be exclusive to backers for a while.

Two bits of cool news:

* If you're at WWDC -- on Thursday the 11th at 5pm, check out the session titled "View Controller Techniques" wherein Apple engineer Evan Doll uses some Glyphish icons in the presentation. Evan also plugs Glyphish icons in a Stanford iPhone developer on on iTunes U http://bitly.com/RNeL

* I've started preparing a set of icons suitable for Android. More on that later in the summer.

Finally, I wish I could think of some additional way to thank people who are pledging funds. If I can get 10 more backers, this project would be 300% funded, so tweet it up, tell your developer friends, post on iPhone dev forums and blogs, and let me know if you can think of some extra special icon-related way I can thank everyone who's supporting this project. (hit me on twitter or at hello [at] glyphish dot com)

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Update #6: Twenty days, twenty icons

Posted on May 25, 2009

Twenty days remaining, and in that time I'm going to attempt to make 5 icons every 4 days. If I can pull it off, the total number in the set will be a nice round 100. (Check out the six I just added if you haven't already.)

I'm ready to publish a layered Photoshop file containing all icons and layer styles needed for comps, plus as a PDF contact sheet with everything in scalable vector format, and maybe even SVG files too if there's any requests for that.

Thanks again for your support, and note that I'm just $95 short of *doubling* my original goal -- so tell your friends, spread the word, post on your blog, give it a digg and so forth.

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      Andre Deutmeyer on May 25, 2009

      You are the first person I have backed through Kickstarter... and I gotta say I am glad to have found this site. Can't wait to see what icons you have coming... I am more excited than I should be about this.

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      Christian Kraemer on May 25, 2009

      I second that!

Update #5: Goal met, still rockin'

Posted on May 11, 2009

Wow, this is awesome: pledges up to $665!

If I hit $1000 I'm going to do something extra extra special:

* Publish a full 100 icons total (20 more than planned)
* Include a cool Photoshop file devkit for making comps
* Include an Illustrator devkit, plus distinct SVG/EPS files
* Set up a way for folks to buy icon tshirts
* Get one of the icons temp-tattooed on my arm

Thanks again for all your support.

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      Charles Adler on May 28, 2009

      Woo hoo! Looks like we're getting extra bonus icons & source files now that you've hit the mark. Nice work!

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      Dominik Pich on May 29, 2009

      :) yay

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      Zsolt Kiraly on June 4, 2009

      Dude, that tattoo better be the PERMANENT kind! I suggest the fish.

      Nice job!

Update #4: Thanks for your support

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Update #3: Backing goal is met!

Posted on May 7, 2009

Hooray, the $500 goal has been met and there's still a whole month left to go!

If possible I'll shorten the finish date, but even if not, I'll publish the whole set of vector icons in the next week or so.

Thanks much for your support.

Update #2: $410 raised so far

Posted on May 4, 2009

15 new icons have been added to the collection since this project was kickstarted, and as of May 4th, $410 out of $500 has been pledged. I've got more icons on the way; hoping to hit a full hundred in June. (Maybe a t-shirt too...)

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      Charles Adler on May 4, 2009

      Awesome!
      T-Shirt you say? That would be dope. T-shirt + Icons = wicked.

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      Ramin Firoozye on May 4, 2009

      You think you might be able to get a T-shirt out before WWDC? ;-)

Update #1: Almost halfway there

Posted on April 30, 2009

Thanks much for your support so far, guys!

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