FamFamFam Silk Icons converted to gifs
October 18, 2007
Sometime in your career, you’ve used the famfamfam silk icon set for a project. If not, shoot yourself right now. This icon set should be the defacto in icons for websites. They’re incredibly drawn and FREE! Problem is though that they only come in PNG format and IE6.X has a problem displaying them natively. The only way around this is to convert them to GIFs. So I took it upon myself to convert them to GIFs using Photoshop’s Batch processing and made them available to download.
October 18, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Sweet! Thanks for doing this Tony!
October 19, 2007 at 12:45 am
I always aim to please.
October 19, 2007 at 4:36 am
>> The only way around this is to convert them to GIFs.
No it’s not.
You can either convert to 8-bit PNG (always a better choice than GIF if you don’t need animation), or keep at 24-bit and simply use the transparancy hack ( http://www.bpsite.net/miniemotes/iepngfix.html )
October 19, 2007 at 1:00 pm
@Peter,
Touche!
You’re absolutely right in the workarounds you propose, however I wanted that worked across all browsers.
October 31, 2007 at 11:04 am
… except that the only browser that needs this fix is IE anyway, isn’t it?
November 8, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I’m curious as to what fix I should use for my sprite library. http://www.ajaxbestiary.com/2007/11/08/announcing-silksprite-a-css-sprite-plugin-for-blueprint/
It uses a 24px png of the silk right now. I’m contemplating simply dropping it down to 8bit.
January 7, 2008 at 1:38 am
Sometimes pngfix is not an option, e.g. when the images are lazy loaded via css within a menu hierarchy.
I tried converting to 8bit png with unsatisfactory results – may well have been the program I used.
January 23, 2008 at 5:30 pm
thaks
April 2, 2008 at 9:26 am
Thank you! Is hard to convert every icon to GIF, this help a lot with IE4.
April 7, 2008 at 5:49 pm
there are some artifacts on the image borders,more visible with certain background colors(like red), can we achieve better results changing some Photoshop conversion options?
June 21, 2008 at 6:05 am
Thanks very much for this! You’ve saved me lots of work. The icons are indeed great, and it’s a pity about Internet Explorer’s problem in displaying PNGs. Thanks again!
August 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm
For anyone who needs to quickly find icons, I wrote an extension for Ext JS that allows you to quickly filter through the thousands of icons.
tdg-i.com/52/tdgiiconmgr-and-iconbrowser-update
November 7, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Really neat, thanks!
December 19, 2008 at 2:21 am
Thanks man!
January 6, 2009 at 6:13 pm
thx a lot, very usefull
February 11, 2009 at 10:03 am
Thank you so much for this good job !!
April 1, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Thanks!
June 22, 2009 at 11:41 am
Thank you ! u made my day =)
July 9, 2009 at 5:41 am
Thanks a lot man !
August 10, 2009 at 11:18 am
Do you know about a different URL where i can download the GIF icons?
Thank you!
November 4, 2009 at 4:45 am
You are my hero. Saved a lot ot time.
November 5, 2009 at 3:34 am
Hi,
I’ve created an alternate version which is backwards compatible with IE6 and doesn’t have the blue border.
For more information and free download visit the blog article at:
http://www.deepbluesky.com/blog/-/backwards-compatible-silk-set-icons-with-fireworks_73/