From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography
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Establishing visual continuity - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography
Establishing visual continuity
- [Narrator] Creating a set of icons requires paying attention to the details in order to retain continuity as you create. In this movie, I want to help you understand what to watch for, what details need to be retained consistently to produce a set of icons that work well as a family. So here's a base black and white set of icons that I created for a medical facility, and I want to go over certain attributes that you need to retain in order to keep continuity to your total iconography set. Most people aren't developing just one single icon. If you do that, that's easy and very forgiving, because you don't have any other visuals to compare to it to see if you've kept a continuity. It's kind of self contained. But in this case, we have multiple icons, and they all need to work together and work well together. So the first thing that's important to consider is proportion. Once again, most iconic efforts are going to be a squarish proportion. Now, this is true on a user interface…
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