Check out ColorCons, a set of icons made freely available (CC, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License) in four different colours (blue, grey, green, and red [shown to the right]) from MouseRunner.com. Perfect for a website (as long as its non commercial) or app with a minimal yet candyish design — the use of symbols is great!
Checkout the screenshot to the right and head on over to MouseRunner to download the icon set you would like. All the icons are in PNG and ICO format and be sure to check out the full conditions of use.
Ken Saunders, the creator of these icons is Legally Blind. “…my greatest passion (ironically) is working with and creating graphics and content for my websites. While my vision is poor, I can see and appreciate colors very well, especially blues which is why you see a lot of them in my works. Detailed work can be achieved although it takes quite a bit of time, patience and the proper accessibility tools. [link]”
ColorCons look great, and I appreciate their design even more if I think in terms of accessibility. Ken (who operates mouserunner) also runs accessfirefox.com, a site he created to demonstrate accessibility tools and features available for FireFox.
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14 Aug 06
1:20 pm
Thank you for the write-up and for listing ColorCons, I’m honored to be listed on your site.
“All good things come around”
Ken
16 Aug 06
11:03 am
[...] Well, sorry to those who actually take the time to checkout this Blog. I haven’t updated in a while because I’ve had a lot of projects going on at once. The best news is that Mouse Runner’s ColorCons icons have been kicking butt. First, on deviantART.com, there have been well over 1,000 page views for them. Also MaxPower.ca has a feature on them, plus they’ve added ColorCons to their list of free icons. This is great because MaxPower.ca gets a ton of visitors daily. Checkout ColorCons and checkout the feature on ColorsCons on MaxPower . [...]
05 Sep 06
9:19 am
[...] Recently I profiled the work of Ken Saunders and his ColorCons icon sets which are available for free from MouseRunner.com. Over the course of our correspondence, I asked Ken if he would be interested in doing an interview for MaxPower about his work. Ken was gracious enough to accept and I eagerly sent him some questions. Here are the results of the interview: [...]
01 Dec 06
5:50 pm
I was wondering if you knew where I could get Icons to use on my XP desktop? Not for any web design or publishing
Thanx for your time
01 Dec 06
6:04 pm
My best advice is go to deviantART.com and browse through the icons there.
There’s thousands of icons.
11 Dec 06
3:35 pm
[...] need inspiration? Check this out if you are in need of some inspiration for your new web design jobs…This guy is legally blind and manages to create the best stuff: Recently I profiled the work of Ken Saunders and his ColorCons icon sets which are available for free from MouseRunner.com. Over the course of our correspondence, I asked Ken if he would be interested in doing an interview for MaxPower about his work. Ken was gracious enough to accept and I eagerly sent him some questions. Here are the results of the interview: http://www.maxpower.ca/an-interview-…st/2006/09/05/ [...]
11 Dec 06
3:49 pm
Hey Ken!
great site! just wanted to say hello and i found all this
11 Dec 06
3:52 pm
Thank you Jody.
23 Feb 07
7:28 am
Great post, thank you very much!
02 Mar 07
11:49 pm
hi ken,.
i say thanks for all you have done…
one again thank…
regards