Designing the first icon and the building blocks of the set

A set of icons needs to be visually coherent. Naturally, the first icon has to set styles and define the visual rules for the rest of them. When we talk about rules, we mean guidelines that help you work faster and easier. The rules are creative, but once you have created them, try to stick to them.

Experiment on the first icon but think in a set. Once you have figured out the rules by working on the first icon, keep the line thickness the same, use the same set of colors, and use the same building blocks. All this is to achieve a similar feel for all the icons in the set.

Remember the icon styles we learned about a few pages earlier? During this project, we will design all the icons of the set in line art style. This means the icons will consist of simple strokes without fill colors.

The flexibility of Inkscape will help you establish and maintain your own design rules throughout the process. In this case, for the...