Really, I shoudl be asleep right now...

[gnomi]

...but instead I'm pondering icons. I have decided that I need icons for the following:

-- Language geek (not that I don't use and love my Prescriptivist Hardass one, but not all of my Language Geek posts are PH-type posts)
-- Something knitting related
-- Something celebration-y (I'm thinking something fireworks-y, but that's just one possibility)

Do any of you have good sources of icons that you tend to like? LJ has tons of icon-related communities, but I'm convinced I don't have the patience to dig through them all.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you have been asleep when you posted this? :-)

Maybe I should get new icons as well.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :-)

[madfilkentist]

Speaking of language geekery, I came upon this passage in Aristotle's Nicomachaean Ethics while reading on the train this morning:

The faculty called gnomi [spelled in Greek letters] ... is "the right judgment of the equitable man."

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I should look into what "gnomi" means in Greek.

I know that in modern Italian it is the plural of "gnome."

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I very rarely gack icons. I prefer to make them myself. If you can come up with the right concepts, why not be creative and make them yourself?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I don't have appropriate icon-making software for anything more complicated than scaling down a photo and possibly adding text. So I've been looking for base photos and stuff and not hitting anything I like.

Alas. I shall keep searching.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Well, that's all I do when I make icons. *shrug*

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

How about this?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute! Knit Zaphod! Hee!

(I know they're selling them as a tie-in to the movie. I should ponder finding patterns for the assorted HHGTTG folk.)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

You might want to look here...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll take a look, see if they have anything I like.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'll watch for new icons! :-)