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Feed Me: The New Standard Icon

Posted by Derek Brown on December 24th, 2005.


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This is definitely worth a mention, if you have not already heard. Evidently, Microsoft has recently adopted the Mozilla Firefox “feed” logo as it’s feed icon as well. Instantly, designers and developers alike are, ahem, “Flock”ing to this new image. Where can you get yours? Check it out: Feed Icons. Matt Brett, of MattBrett.Com fame, has put together this delicious package of images and pdf files containing the new “standard”.

I’ve adopted it, as many people already have, as my site’s standard. Do you plan on doing anything with it? What do you think? Is this yet another move by Microsoft (after SSE) to a more standard web? Let’s all hope so.

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Funny, we are in the process of redesigning our company website and I was just recently thinking about what to use for an icon…I considered the standard XML/RSS orange buttons, but preferred to call them “feeds” which I think is a more user-friendly term. I will definitely use this icon, and plan to customize it for my company’s brand colors.

Rachel
December 28th, 2005
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Maybe I’m being narrow-minded, but I’m reminded of the movement early on to have all links be blue.
Simply because most people aren’t going to agree on using these icons (oh how confidently I make my prophecies), this particular movement is doomed to failure.
They’re pretty icons, though. And a pretty site.

fathima
January 2nd, 2006
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I can definitely see these catching on - but people will always want to be different and will break the rules.

Andrew Faulkner
January 3rd, 2006
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Sure they want it to be common among sites… but why not RSS (and the button associated with it)… the more we use the term the more it will become “User friendly”.

I always saw a “dot” or other glyph with radiating lines to mean Wireless… not Syndication or RSS.

I think user hand-holding has been going on for centuries in the English language and that is why we have so many words with so many meanings.

IMHO it should be called what it is rather than a generic term that already has many other meanings.

Tyroga
January 10th, 2006
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like the website mentions, a single icon across the web spectrum would certainly make an RSS feed easier to recognize, but at what cost? creativity, originality

While I have nothing against a universal shape (dot with audio waves), I think every website manager should have creative say over their final output. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great idea, but I’m not sure if it’s really going to catch on.

Zeerus
January 11th, 2006
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