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Quick answers
When should I pick Open icon systems?
When the story is: slides, product UI, posters, school worksheets.
When should I avoid Open icon systems?
Skip it in cases like: mixing five icon styles on one slide.
Who invented or popularised it?
Feather to Lucide and other ISC/MIT SVG icon families on GitHub
What does it encode?
stroke or fill metaphors at a shared grid and weight
Is it OK in ads?
Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in Meta, Google and retail print; otherwise link to a full figure.
Will a teacher accept it?
Yes for lab reports and poster boards if axes, units and a source line are present.
Open icon systems encodes values as stroke or fill metaphors at a shared grid and weight. Feather to Lucide and other ISC/MIT SVG icon families on GitHub.
In reports, ads and assignments it fits slides, product UI, posters, school worksheets. Skip it when mixing five icon styles on one slide.
Make shapes, diagrams and charts in the browser. Download SVG or PNG — nothing is uploaded.
Work
- Work 1 — PowerPoint weekly: Open icon systems for slides, product UI, posters, school worksheets.
- Work 2 — One Open icon systems on a quarterly bridge or KPI tile — not four.
- Work 3 — Build in Excel or Google Sheets, export SVG/PDF rather than a screenshot.
Ads
- Ads 1 — Meta, Google and retail print: one number, one shape, one arrow.
- Ads 2 — Keep callouts inside safe zones. No type in cropped corners.
- Ads 3 — If Open icon systems will not fit a banner, keep the number and show the chart on the landing page.
School
- School 1 — lab reports and poster boards: does Open icon systems answer the rubric?
- School 2 — Axis names, units, a source line. Markers read them.
- School 3 — Start with a mind map if you must; submit a figure that reads like Open icon systems.
Steps
- Steps 1 — Write the claim in one sentence.
- Steps 2 — Check that Open icon systems fits the claim. If not, switch.mixing five icon styles on one slide
- Steps 3 — Draw it flat in Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint.
- Steps 4 — Direct labels, faint grid, claim-title.
- Steps 5 — Check greyscale and a color-blind simulator.
- Steps 6 — Add source, period, units; export SVG/PDF.
Open icon systems: honour stroke or fill metaphors at a shared grid and weight, and switch when mixing five icon styles on one slide.