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Adam Whitcroft
adamwhitcroft.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Adam Whitcroft is a designer who makes free icon sets, weather icons, wireframing kits and a simple Apache directory theme.
What HN saysCommenters praise the Batch icon font for simplifying their workflow and applaud his refunding of earlier buyers when it went free; Climacons is also noted.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design5 people · 821 points · first shared 2012 · 98 comments on HN
- 2Climacons: free weather icons3 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 3Apaxy: A simple, customisable Apache directory theme2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Batch is now free, read why2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5WireKit - An iPhone App Wireframing Kit1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6Batch (a suite of 300+ icons) is now free, read why (2012)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7A Markdown Proposition1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Gjhfjhg1 people · first shared 2012
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Andrex · 2013-02-01
I'm using the Batch icon font[1] in a prototype web app right now and it's literally the best thing to happen to my workflow in years.
No redoing the icons in Photoshop or Gimp to get them in a different color, or shadow, or emboss, or size.
No messing with background position and constantly updating your sprite file, being careful not to place anything in the wrong place.
Just... data-icon="&#whatever;" It's incredibly beautiful and useful and I know it's going to be hard to go back whenever I end up having to.
[1] http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
muratmutlu · 2012-11-23
Adam this is awesome, the fact that you refunded people who had already purchased is even more awesome
http://adamwhitcroft.com/2012/11/on-batch/
Really great work
arnorb · 2014-07-18
Looks like a stylized version of Climacons http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/
Metapony · 2013-03-18
I can see the value in this, but I probably wouldn't use it. I run a WAMP server on my desktop and have made an Alias in my httpd.conf to my Github Repos directory, allowing me to cruise in and see example html pages very easily. I just clone the repo in windows, and then I can use /git/REPO/coolthing.js in a script tag. I use a chrome extension for rendering README.md (markdown) files.
I use Apaxy (http://adamwhitcroft.com/apaxy/ ) to get a better folder view. The instructions for setting up an Alias are here: http://serverfault.com/questions/7323/httpd-conf-and-setting-up-an-ali…
Hope this helps someone out there. It's really simple to do.
rplnt · 2013-01-04
Some other icon sets (probably appeared on HN before, don't know where I got them from):
flags:
https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons
user interface:
https://www.gosquared.com/resources/165-vector-icons and
http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
radley · 2012-11-23
Whitcroft is also responsible for Climacons (weather icons) which have become standard for many apps. #hatTip
http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/
ChrisArchitect · 2013-11-21
inspired by Batch or what? http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
Ramp_ · 2013-04-14
They forgot Batch.
http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
olalonde · 2012-11-24
Awesome 404 page. http://adamwhitcroft.com/gjhfjhg