We've built a CSS based language to enable designers to easily make their SVG graphics dynamic and customizable. You're right though, it makes no sense to put it there while it's pending, I'm removing it. Thanks for asking!
Well sure, but obtaining a patent is no small thing (if done seriously). So I'm curious why they feel it's so important to protect this.
Basically I'm wondering if it's just a purely defensive move, (maybe an investor asked them to file a patent or whatever), or whether they are aiming for a business model where people create things using a language that they control and can obtain fees for its use.
Of course they don't have any reason to share this info with us at this point.
Very cool! I initially thought it was just color swapping, but the percentages section in particular is fantastic.
Led by the CTA arrow: http://i.imgur.com/odtBsuE.png, I clicked on "Illustrations" first, which I actually think is the weakest example of cool customizability. Percentages and Words are both more compelling IMHO.
I'm not clear on the licensing here. Are all files under the "illustrio license", and why does the summary that pops up seem to say something different than the detailed license text? I would be much more comfortable with a standard license being used - say, the Creative Commons licenses. At least let users filter their search by license terms, unless they're all under the same terms in which case that should be clearer.
I like the idea of being able to customize, but is that simply changing the colors? Or is it the ability to commission edits to the work? If it's just color changes I have trouble seeing the value; if it's substantial edits to the work then the pricing looks too low and the license terms are too restrictive.
Basically, what does this offer me that the Noun Project doesn't, except far more restrictive licensing terms?
Thanks for the feedback. The illustrio license applies to all graphics. What differences have you noticed between the pop up and the detailed text? We might need to clarify if anything is unclear right now.
Also, you may customize other things than colors by playing with the inputs in the left side-bar under each "product". Try to play with the slider under Percentages for example. You need to click on Percentages first.
Ah, it's only in some categories. That is definitely a neat feature now that I see it. Unfortunate that the licensing makes this something I can't use. I'd never get your license text past the legal team at my day job, and almost all of my side projects are FLOSS. Plus, having a policy of never using anything that I can't either own the rights to or use and modify under a permissive license makes my IP management so much simpler.
The summary license says that you can't redistribute the graphics. Admittedly, I'm used to licenses such as GPL where including the file in an app's package file would be "redistribution" - it looks like you mean "no redistribution of JUST the graphics file" which could perhaps be clearer.
Also, the license seems really concerned with not putting any of your graphics in a theme or template. Why is this? I'd consider offering a licensing option which permits this, perhaps on a different pricing structure.
You say can't use in/on a paid product, but can use in a paid service. That's confusing because I'd think of my paid website service AS my product - I think you might mean "no use on physical goods for sale" which is another restriction I don't particularly understand but okay. Again that might be something to offer an option for.
All good points and we certainly need to clarify a couple things. The reason why our license is restrictive is because we target non-designers who are generally not making a living out of design. This way we can offer our own pricing and not compete with all the already good icon and graphic providers out there targeting designers. It happens non-designers are also happier with our limited editing features than Adobe illustrator's for instance. Hope it makes sense.
Thank you! We're currently working with a few designers in private but we're working on tools that would enable designers to upload packs of .svg graphics and make them automatically customizable on our platform.
I'm having a hard time trying to reproduce the modal bug although you're not the first one to report the issue. I'm working on it!
I can see myself paying for this to improve my next presentations, the value proposition is really good!
I'm not sure of the business model for big customers though, the gap between 100 and 5000 downloads being huge. Maybe unlimited downloads would be better, maybe not, only time will give you an answer.
I was interested until I realised you can't get the icons in SVG. Why use raster images for icons? SVGs are smaller, crisper and always the correct resolution.
Cool! Currently we don't have the tools to accept requests automatically. Still, we're closely monitoring the search terms/expressions users make that return no (or close to no) results.
We try to be as reactive as possible, so feel free to contact us (bottom left of sidebar) and ask for what you need!
Indeed thank you!
edit: Are you referring to the placeholder "Your company email..." in the signup modal? If it's the case, we're planning on creating a color scheme automatically from the company's logo. Currently, it can be done by picking colors manually from any logo the Clearbit API can find. Try to create a new color scheme :)
