{"id":37790,"date":"2022-12-01T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37790"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:45:37","slug":"vector-icon-speedruns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/vector-icon-speedruns\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Icon Speedruns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/iconspeedruns\/\">Marc Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/iconspeedruns\/\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s common to have to draw the same kinds of icons over and over &mdash; many different apps and websites use similar glyphs, but each instance typically needs to be tweaked for size and style, so they need to be redrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this repetition, I&rsquo;ve always been interested in trying to work out optimal ways to create them. This is to save time, but also as a fun challenge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/speedrunpen\/\">Marc Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/speedrunpen\/\">\n<p>When viewing my vector icon speedruns, it can be difficult to see precisely what&rsquo;s going on. Everything happens quickly, with many actions triggered via keyboard shortcuts, and Illustrator&rsquo;s interface is cropped out of view. That&rsquo;s just the nature of what they are, which means they provide more entertainment than education.<\/p>\n<p>This article aims to be a director&rsquo;s commentary for my fountain pen icon speedrun, noting the techniques used, and why they were chosen. I use Adobe Illustrator for all the icon speedruns, but many of the tips are relevant for other design tools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There are corresponding articles for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/speedrunpushpin\/\">pushpin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/speedrunflag\/\">flag<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/speedrunfingerprint\/\">fingerprint<\/a> videos, and also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e_hI4y4u2BE\">YouTube channel<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/11\/30\/icon-speedruns\">John Gruber<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Edwards: It&rsquo;s common to have to draw the same kinds of icons over and over &mdash; many different apps and websites use similar glyphs, but each instance typically needs to be tweaked for size and style, so they need to be redrawn. Due to this repetition, I&rsquo;ve always been interested in trying to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-01T21:45:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"c4207248-027e-4e27-aa72-4ce4ec36c7cb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-01T21:45:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxCBySAJ-Tieqckzk7DbHyw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[961,34,545,30,2223],"class_list":["post-37790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe-illustrator","tag-graphicdesign","tag-icons","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37791,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37790\/revisions\/37791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}