From the course: Design Your First Infographic
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Use icons
- [Instructor] Wherever possible, replace text in your infographic with icons. These icons should be in a consistent style. Here are some icon resources. Font Awesome is an incredibly useful picture font comprised of many useful icons including social media icons. You can combine it with the Font Awesome Cheatsheet to help you find the icon that you're after. Then, copy and paste it into Illustrator. The noun project is a crowd-sourced repository of vector icons. You can download these icons in SVG format. Photoshop has the, often overlooked but useful, custom shape tool. In the 2020 version of Photoshop, the number of custom shapes has been expanded. Once drawn, the custom shape can be copied and pasted into Illustrator as a compound shape which is completely scalable. In addition, a browser search for Photoshop custom shapes will return many results of sites from where you can download custom shapes. As well as using…
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