Comments on: Feed Icon: Trademark, Agreement, Guidelines, what?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:46:29 +0000

This post receives more spam than the rest of them put together. Therefore, I’m disabling comments on it.

By: Hosting Reviews

Hosting Reviews — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:56:37 +0000

Hey Matt,

I wanted to thank you a ton for your feed icon package for Photoshop. Before, I had an ugly white background that didn’t match my color scheme. Now it is seamless. I appreciate it greatly!

By: Oleg

Oleg — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:21:25 +0000

I’ve seen lots of different variations of the button made. 3D, Circular, Multi-colored but its still easy to pick out the feed button because of the design.

I use your buttons on a few of my blogs. Thanks!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:11:38 +0000

Thanks Matt. I tried the legacy versions on illustrator 9, and they didn’t work. Luckily a friend has 10, which had no problem. He was able to give me an even further downlevel version. Thanks for the tip and fast response.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:51:17 +0000

@Rob: Try opening the files marked with “legacy” in the file name. They were created with Illustrator CS2 I believe, but those files are compatible with older versions back to Illustrator 9 or 10 – can’t remember which.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:45:21 +0000

Any chance that we could get a vector version of the icon on feedicons.com that can be read by Freehand MX, or Illustrator? I want to make a version with a glossy finish and delete the gradient. Illustrator complains that the ai and eps were created with a newer version and you end up with pretty much nothing after the conversion. Freehand loads the EPS as a monolithic object; I can’t get rid of the gradient.

Sorry for being a pest, but I can’t afford the absolute latest and greatest of every app…

By: Avi Alkalay

Avi Alkalay — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:30:03 +0000

Oh, and I forgot to say:

4. It has different shapes for smaller export sizes, as 22×22, 16×16. The original shape is better for big sizes.

5. It has more icons

By: Avi Alkalay

Avi Alkalay — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:27:03 +0000

I redrawed the feed icon and used it as a base to design new icons or redraw well known icons related to blog ideas and actions.

The result is here: http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/05/blog-icons.html

The good thing about my release is this:
1. Is identical to your FeedIcon, in shape and colours.
2. Is created with open tools and open formats: XML:SVG. No more dependency on proprietary Adobe Illustrator.
3. It was simplified and made more precise in the XML level: all junk created by export tools were removed.

Personally I prefer your feed icon design than the one in Firefox.

By: marcel

marcel — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:24:11 +0000

I hate to be annoying, but… Doesn’t http://www.feedicons.com violate the Mozilla Feed Icon Guidelines by using the icon as the site’s favicon?

“The feed icon (or confusingly-similar variants of it) should not be used in the following contexts:
* as, or incorporated as part of, an application icon, a web site logo (including a favicon), or in any other way that would imply to a casual observer that the feed icon was exclusively or primarily associated with a particular application or web site…”

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/feed-icon-guidelines/

By: BigJ

BigJ — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:19:52 +0000

I believe that changing the color of the icon is out of question for me. When the user browses my site, i must give him a familiar interface to browse. Not something frustrating.

I have been a coder many years now and this is what my experience showed.