{"id":17342,"date":"2012-01-11T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2012-01-11T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:57:50","slug":"the-icon-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/the-icon-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Icon Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Jon Hicks (famous for things like creating the Firefox icon via Fireworks) has written\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hicksdesign.co.uk\/journal\/the-icon-handbook\">The Icon Handbook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve set out to create the manual, reference guide and coffee table book that I always desired\u2026\u00a0Along the way, I talk to icon designers such as Susan Kare, David Lanham and Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory and many more about their process behind well known icons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The book promises to get into technical details, too, as in this <a href=\"http:\/\/24ways.org\/2011\/displaying-icons-with-fonts-and-data-attributes\">excerpt about using fonts in lieu of bitmaps<\/a> to present icons. I can&#8217;t wait to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivesimplesteps.com\/products\/the-icon-handbook\">get a copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Jon Hicks (famous for things like creating the Firefox icon via Fireworks) has written\u00a0The Icon Handbook: I\u2019ve set out to create the manual, reference guide and coffee table book that I always desired\u2026\u00a0Along the way, I talk to icon designers such as Susan Kare, David Lanham and Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}