Icon and graphic resources

[jesperanda]

Last modified: 19 August 2008, to add "Hip circles." Note to self: last anchor used -- 6; edit.

Icon keywords and comments don't always have room for as much credit as I'd like to provide, so I've created this list. Most of these icons are on my User Pictures page. I've posted some additional icons in my LJ Scrapbook; their credits are listed there.

Some images in my icons have Creative Commons licenses. A link to the appropriate license, along with attribution information, is included in the listing for each icon where such references apply. A summary of the main types of Creative Commons licenses is here.

Icons on my Userpics page that aren't listed here were made without others' resources, were made by (and are credited to) someone else or have their full credits listed in the comments (not always possible).

Some resources may have changed Web location or become unavailable.

I endeavor to provide credit properly for everything I use and to follow each resource creator's terms of use. Please let me know if I have failed to do so.

CURRENT ICONS
10000 pixels
Abandon all despair
Brushes are love
Challenger
Cheaper than therapy
Creative urge
Curb your drama
Earth cozy
Festive
Foodie
Frabjous
Hip circles
Jesperanda
Jesperanda (green)
Love & pleasure
Micromovements
Mortgage
Point/Counterpoint
Post no bull
Rain
Raya
Shoes-Dance
Unanimous
Weekend Cookbook Challenge
Word up
WTF meter
WTTF

CONTEST ENTRIES
DreamVac
On the other hand

ICONS FOR OTHERS
Gobucksgirl48
Lilbookworm48

RETIRED ICONS
Serenity now

10000 PIXELS

Brushes

• Brackets01 by stargarden_

Fonts

• FF Absara-Light by Xavier Dupre at FontFont.com
• Parma Petit Small Caps Italic by Manfred Klein

ABANDON ALL DESPAIR

• Photo taken by Drain and posted here at Flickr. Drain says: "i like this sign everytime i see it. it is in the window of city lights bookstore" (in San Francisco, CA). I simply cropped and resized the photo. The original photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.

BRUSHES ARE LOVE

Fonts

• Devroye and Devroye Extra from Apostrophic Lab

Brushes (via screenshots of my brush palette)

• Red, orange and green brushes: Included with my version of Photoshop Elements
• Yellow brush: Natural Tapestry from truly-sarah.com (Site doesn't seem to be working, but she apparently has an account at DeviantART.)
• Blue brush: Charcoal Swirlies by Microchaotic
• Purple brush: pekeana_iconborders by pekeana

CHALLENGER
A character from my 2005 NaNoWriMo attempt.

Image

• Doll created with the Devika I dollmaker at Josie's Dollz (www.over-the-moon.org/dollz; link is no longer valid). Used with permission.

Fonts

• GFY Erin Burkett from Chank Fonts
• Kleintenna by Apostrophic Lab
• Grudblitter from Graham Freeman (Grudnuk Creations)

CHEAPER THAN THERAPY

• Font: Laura from Font Garden. Despite the name, it's not my handwriting.
• Background: I drew my own notebook paper. Getting the hole to come out right was a pain. (The hole is visible against colored backgrounds.)

CREATIVE URGE
So I was thinking about creative urges, and then my mind leapt to the title of the Ed Wood movie/MST3K ep The Sinister Urge, and, well, THIS happened.

• Fonts: Komika Small Caps and Komika Boogie, part of the Komika series from Apostrophic Lab.
• Image: Mine, with much help from this tutorial.

CURB YOUR DRAMA

• Brush: angelic-trust.net
• Fonts: Franklin Gothic Demibold and Arial Black

DREAMVAC
An entry for the "Once Upon a Dream" icon contest in obsessiveicons.

Fonts

• Tiny text: Kleintenna by Apostrophic Lab
• Larger text: Xiparos by Pia Frauss

Other

• Photo taken by Andy Smith and posted here at Flickr. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.
• Quotation attributed to "Anonymous" at ThinkExist.com

EARTH COZY
This icon is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike). (Note: I substituted in some new photos because some creators apparently changed their CC licenses. If you snagged this icon before 22 November 2007, please snag the updated version.)

Font

• Auto 3 by Underware

Photos

• From Flickr, with the Creative Commons License Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike unless otherwise specified:
• little hedgehog / Noelle | source
• lux2night | source | CC License: Attribution - NonCommercial
• mybloodyself / Dan Machold | source
• LollyKnit / Lauren "Lolly" Weinhold | source | CC license: Attribution
• nep / Nep Smith | source | CC License: Attribution - NonCommercial
• From elsewhere:
  • Image of Earth courtesy of NASA and found here.
  • The knitting covering the Earth is from a photo (and a dishcloth) by me.

FESTIVE

• Font: Pendulum by Canada Type
• Brush: From this set by meleada
• Picture: Taken by me

FOODIE

• Font: Parma Petit by Manfred Klein
• Photo taken by minusbaby / Richard Caraballo and posted here at Flickr. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.

FRABJOUS
I needed something cheerful. *shrug*

• Font: Showboat by CanadaType and Sharpie by Typadelic
• Brush: By sanami276 at fangirls_inc
• Dots: From an image set by gender

GOBUCKSGIRL48
For gobucksgirl48.

• Bases: colorfilter
• Font: Bickham Script from Adobe

HIP CIRCLES

• Font: Ministry Script by Alejandro Paul
• Background: girlboheme
• Text: From a joke at Shira.net.

JESPERANDA

• Font: Bickham Script from Adobe
• Texture: From Vered (veredgf); I cropped/resized a portion of her texture to make the background, then cropped and layered additional portions of the same texture over top of it. In the end, I liked her colors so much that I reconfigured my LJ to match. Thanks, Vered!
• Picture: A previous version of this icon had a self-portrait.

JESPERANDA (GREEN)

• Font: Democratica from Emigre
• Brushes: Fresh Foliage [Part I] Set from Jason Gaylor.
• Inspiration: Patterned after my layout, Slapping Someone With Silence by grrliz, posted at thefulcrum.

LILBOOKWORM48
For lilbookworm48.

• Texture(s): alaskanicons (can't remember whether I used one or two)
• Brushes: forbiddenstorm
• Font: Bickham Script from Adobe

LOVE & PLEASURE
Fonts

• Silver Script by Typadelic
• La Danse by P22
• The alternative version here uses Plumero Script by Diego Giaccone and Silver Script.

Photo
White Dress #2 by qui_parle at Flickr. (Direct link no longer available.) This photo was licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution).

Words
From someone on LJ who didn't feel a need to be credited.

MICROMOVEMENTS

• Font: PhonebookFont by Manfred Klein
• Ruler: Mine, which I scanned in
• Inspiration: See the Micromovements support sheet at PlanetSark.com

MORTGAGE
An 1894 mortgage.

• Photo taken by Rev Dan Catt and posted here at Flickr. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.

ON THE OTHER HAND
An entry for the "Take My Hand" icon contest in obsessiveicons. I won second place! Results are in this entry.

• Base: Creator unknown; enriana, one of the maintainers/designers of obsessiveicons, supplied it for use in the contest. If you have an attribution for it, please let me know.
• Font: Grudblitter from Graham Freeman (Grudnuk Creations)
• Quotation: Stephen Wright, found at ThinkExist.com

POINT/COUNTERPOINT
This is no mere chat log; this is online sketch improvisation!

• Inspiration: http://thegeekhost.com/moosey/fupdate.htm#dec21
• Hot fontin' action: http://www.katsfunfonts.com/ | http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap/ | http://www.pixilate.com/ | http://users.cwnet.com/shoshana/serendipity.html | http://grudnuk.com/fonts/grudblitter.html | http://www.aenigmafonts.com/ | http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fountain/zanzibar/ | http://www.larabiefonts.com/ | Copperplate Gothic | Impact

POST NO BULL

• Photo taken by Jake Dobkin and posted here at Flickr. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.

RAIN
"When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'" -- Shunryu Suzuki

Commentary? See this entry at the WoodMoor Village Zendo blog.

• Image by roshi
• Fonts: Bayern Handschrift from Nick's Fonts and Zapf Humanist 601

RAYA
A character from my 2005 NaNoWriMo attempt.

Image

• Doll created with Candybar Dollmaker 3 at eLouai.com. Used with permission.
• Base by hownovel

Fonts

• Linotype Zapfino
• Parma Petit Italic and Small Caps Italic by Manfred Klein
• Grudblitter from Graham Freeman (Grudnuk Creations)

SERENITY NOW

Brushes

• Squares and swirls by Microchaotic
• stars01 from 17wings.net

Fonts

• screenhorn10 by Markus Ernst
• Tom's New Roman from Divide by Zero

Other

• Transparency template: Templates Resource (Note: Current version does not use template.)
• Inspiration: A quote from the "Seinfeld" ep "The Serenity Now"

SHOES-DANCE

Fonts

• Grudblitter by Grudnuk Creations
• Mireille by Typadelic

Photo
Image by Deborah Ripley / virgorama at stock.xchng.

Words
Paraphrased from Eat Mangoes Naked by SARK.

UNANIMOUS

Fonts

• Snell Bold
• Fairfax Station by Nick Curtis, available at the Nick's Fonts page at TypOasis

Other

• Image of Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe courtesy of Are You Being Served? Forever
• "And I am unanimous in that" is, of course, one of Mrs. Slocombe's catchphrases.

WEEKEND COOKBOOK CHALLENGE

I'm a sometime participant in the Weekend Cookbook Challenge, a blogging event dedicated to exploring one's cookbook collection. I post my contributions at dustycookbooks.

• Font: Jeana from Font Garden
• Textures (for some very subtle color): 44suburbia.org
• Calendar image: By Drift Words / Matt Whyndham; posted here at Flickr. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike), and because of the terms of that license, so is this icon.
• Bookshelf image: mine.

WORD UP
A tribute to National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words in one month? I failed in '04 but did it in '05. Give it a try.

Fonts

• The ubiquitous Scriptina from Apostrophic Lab
• System fonts MS Mincho and Franklin Gothic Medium

WTF METER

• Font: Radio Stars by Ray Larabie

WTTF
My homage to the eternal question: "What is that font?" with a spoof on the icon Windows uses for TrueType font files.

Fonts
In the background, as displayed in The Font Thing:

• Incognito Septentrio & Small Caps (Gábor Kóthay for Fountain)
• Inkster (Typadelic)
• Jeana (Font Garden)
• Jelly Bean (Typadelic)
• Jennifer (Font Garden)

In the foreground:

• Showboat by Canada Type
• Georgia