Comments on: Standard Blog Icon

By: Our search for a generic and recognisable blog logo | Events Northern Ltd

Our search for a generic and recognisable blog logo | Events Northern Ltd — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:53:01 +0000

[...] were in agreement with this advice and luckily we then stumbled across a solution in the form of a blog post by Brendan Mitchell from March 2009. Brendan had come up against the same problem years earlier and couldn’t [...]

By: Keatonian

Keatonian — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:32:30 +0000

Thanks! Great job… saved me hours of Photoshop-ing.

By: Lethbridge Marketing

Lethbridge Marketing — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:16:49 +0000

[please delete the first post - major typo]

WOW, thank you! I didn’t want to use the wordpress icon as many people who aren’t bloggers or heavy in to the internet would not know what it meant.

The icon is up at http://www.davidhowse.com/ which is the temp site and will soon be moved over to http://www.davidhowsemarketing.com/

Cheers!

By: A standard, universal blog icon | Mark Hesketh

A standard, universal blog icon | Mark Hesketh — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:08:14 +0000

[...] files, PNG and GIF) and sizes can be found over at http://www.theblogicon.com/Or you can read Brendan’s original blog post. Tweet Posted in Inspiration, WordPress | Tagged blog, design, icon, wordpress | Leave a [...]

By: Brendan Mitchell

Brendan Mitchell — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:19:49 +0000

You’re welcome Mark, glad you like it, and please remember to pass on the links http://www.facebook.com/theblogicon and twitter @theblogicon
brendan

By: Mark Hesketh

Mark Hesketh — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:02:21 +0000

Hi Brendan,

I was making a new iOS style nav bar for my portfolio website and ran into the same problem… I wanted an icon for the blog that wasn’t just the WordPress/Blogger icon or something.

I’d seen this icon flag up on Google Images (it’s obviously circulating) and thought it was very clever.

Just wanted to say cheers, its just what I was looking for!

Mark

By: Brendan Mitchell

Brendan Mitchell — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:13:14 +0000

Hi Threethirty, thanks for the comment.

I guess I haven’t made it clear above, I shall update the post, but the blog icon is registered at Creative Commons as Attribution-ShareAlike http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
ie anyone can use it, modify it, pass it on etc, but they must do so with the same rights, ie they shouldn’t charge anyone for it or add any restrictions, hope that answers your question
thanks again
Brendan

By: threethirty

threethirty — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:50:24 +0000

This is awesome the only problem I see with adoption is there isn’t clear licensing.

By: Brendan Mitchell

Brendan Mitchell — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:55:42 +0000

you’re welcome Kirk

By: KirkH

KirkH — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:38:13 +0000

Thanks for coming up with this Brendan. We’re looking for a blog icon to use in our emails to our customers so we’re going to roll with yours- I’ll send you some examples when we’re up and running.