Categories: Icons

How to create a flat icon set

Have you ever wondered what tools you can use to cut your work time in half and have great results? Today I’ll to show you a quick and easy tutorial that will help you create awesome icon sets using basic shapes, the IconsFlow editor Tool and some trendy ready-to-use-styles!

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s define the term “Flat design”.

Flat design is a minimalistic modern style with a minimum of elements and excludes any types of highlights and other glossy, textured, shadowed effects.

The simplicity of elements makes the interfaces more responsive, faster and easier to use.

Let’s kick things off by pressing the main button “Create Amazing Icons!” to open the icon editor.

The first thing you’ll notice is the glossy and flat styles that you can pick for your icon set. Click to select a background style.

Now we can edit the colors. Open the Gradient Fill panel and click the sliders of the gradient to adjust the colors.

Now, we are going to add some icons from the left gallery. Go to the search box and type “phone”. Select the icons you need and delete the first default icon.

I hope you’ve enjoyed following this tutorial and understand the principles of working with IconsFlow editor in order to make the your designing process easier and much faster.

Continue designing your own fancy icons using this powerful icon maker tool!

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