Icons for the things African products actually need.
01What needed changing
Mainstream icon sets cover generic interfaces but miss local transport, food, clothing, market objects and household routines. Teams settle for a generic symbol, redraw from scratch or leave the idea out.
02Decisions we made
What we chose, and why.
01
Draw the missing references.
Not more interface symbols: danfo, okada, suya, talking drums and naira, so familiar references become ordinary design material.
02
Make every icon work at interface size.
One 24-pixel grid and one stroke, so each icon reads small and sits beside the rest of the set.
03
Ship a library, not a gallery.
Open source, so designers and developers can browse, reuse and extend it in real products.
03The work
One family of icons, drawn from everyday life.
- Danfo
- Okada
- Suya
- Talking drum
- Agogo
- Naira note
- POS terminal
- Jerry can
04What followed
What followed
Open sourcefree to use in any projectSource: Published licence
—Who leads the workAbout us →
The same people, from the first call to launch.
Tomiwa OgunmodedeOwns framing, product, brand, experience and the critical creative and commercial decisions.
Adejoke AdedapoOwns client strategy, communications, media thinking, delivery and the commercial rhythm around the work.
Balogun AbiodunOwns engineering architecture, feasibility, integrations and turning decisions into resilient working software.
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