by Cesare Rocchi

Icons are a language

Brilliant post by @designjokes. Some icons are verbs, some are nouns. I have recently written about icons and labels but I skipped the part about the grammar, which is covered in the linked post.

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Icons labels or both

A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting thread that started with this Tweet: “The Best Icon is a Text Label” http://t.co/eqVi82nAAN pic.twitter.com/cig7ZYVwAg — iA Inc. (@iA) April 10, 2015 I studied semiotics so this discussion resonated quite a bit with my studies. I looked up some of the notes I took at the time and got back to the roots of semiotics, to the founder Charles Sanders Peirce.

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