An app icon for a simple word game. The symbol mirrors the game’s pentagonal arrangement of letters, with radial starburst designs for en energetic, retro vibe. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ne...

An app icon for an organizer focused on personal relationships. A pair of woven friendship bracelets and a string of beads forming the app’s initials are painted in warm, dimensional detail. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/fr...

An app icon for a book collection organizer, featuring a fleur-de-lis printed in ink on toothy paper. Irregular edges and strong texture give it a tactile feel. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/st...

An app icon for a traveler’s to-do list, featuring an iconic foil-stamped passport and checklist in a subtly leather-textured sleeve. Purple matches the app’s tint color. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ba...

An app icon for a standalone music player that lives on your Mac’s menu bar. Brushed metal and sharp, glossy reflections embrace nostalgia for Mac OS X Aqua. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/co...

An app icon for a QR code generator, imagined as a friendly, colorful character. Just look at this sweet face! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/qe...

An app icon for a journal that works like a messaging platform. Stacked dynamic chat bubbles, all originating from the right side, represent a conversation with yourself. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/mo...

An app icon for theatergoers to track their theater trips, using a pair of soft-shaded spotlights to subtly form the app’s initial. Just the right amount of clever! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/me...

We tested the features of OS 27 Liquid Glass with some of our own demo icons. parakeet.co/blog/liquid-... #design #icondesign #apple

An app icon for a window manager, featuring a vibrant abstract symbol representing apps in motion. The fiery color palette and molten texture evoke the name, without being literal. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ph...

An app icon for an SVG optimizer by @lmnt.me, borrowing the rabbit glyph from our stock icon set Primaries, and Covik Sans from OH no Type Co. Fuzzy static and irregularities in the glow bring it to life. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/wh...

An app icon for a recycling schedule tracker, featuring a recycling symbol formed by bending branches, set in vibrant natural colors. Earthy, lively, groovy! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/bi...

An app icon for a Metal pixel shader, with bright RGB lights blending and bouncing off each other. A rainbow of crisp reflected light around the edge of the icon is where the magic happens. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/pi...

An app icon for a coin collection inventory app, featuring a coin, leather backing, and plastic protective case, all with Liquid Glass specular highlights. Check out the gold and silver variants! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ce...

An app icon for a text editor/calculator utility that make loops accessible to non-programmers. Simple and effective. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/lo...

An app icon for a timezone monitor, featuring earth painted in rich, luminous gradients, transitioning from day to night along the jagged line of a timezone division. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/zo...

An app icon for an internet connectivity monitor, using subtle gradients to suggest interwoven movement and dimensionality. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/or...

An app icon for a digital file cabinet used to organize limitless categories of information. Both whimsical and serious! #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ta...

An app icon for a video game library tracker, using layered elements and vibrant gradients to create something special in Liquid Glass. #design #icondesign #appicon parakeet.co/app-icons/ga...

New app icon for Text Port! 🔗 parakeet.co/app-icons/te...

It’s not every day we get to make a logo for a 175-year-old company like Hammacher Schlemmer. 🔗 parakeet.co/logos/hammac...

Since 2015, Parakeet has drawn nearly 4000 glyphs for our clients. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/

🏛️ We’ve been making some really nice app icons lately. Here’s one we think you’ll like, for a database app called Base. And how about that dark mode version? 🔗 parakeet.co/app-icons/ba...

Happy 10th Anniversary, Parakeet. 🔗 parakeet.co/blog/10-years/

Today is the 128th Icon of the Day! To celebrate such a nice, classic icon number, we’re celebrating with this really fun disco ball from the 285 glyphs we created for Patreon. It’s so abstracted from the actual object, yet still recognizable! 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/patre...

✍️What If We Had a Blog? 🔗 parakeet.co/blog/what-if...

A little while ago, we crafted a full set of chess glyphs for Deep Green on iOS. Each one was meticulously drawn from its 3D model in the app, with special care to clearly indicate their relative hierarchy in the lineup. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/deep-...

We don’t get to draw a fingerprint icon too often. But for Dailymotion, we needed one for biometric settings. It’s more airy / less dense than typically seen in other apps to match the overall vibe of this set of 187 icons. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/daily...

One of 56 emoji we created for the Playdate Developer Forum. Everyone needs a spa day, even Playdate. Kick back, pop in those cucumbers, and relax. *Do not actually put cucumbers on your Playdate, probably. That might not be covered by the warranty. 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

The twelfth day of Christmas. A few years ago we created this app icon for theDrumDictionary, with a simple overhead glyph depicting a drum and a pair of drumsticks resting on a cheerful, playful, and colorful background. 🔗 parakeet.co/app-icons/th...

The eleventh day of Christmas. Primaries is our stock icon set of 784 icons !⃝, available for only $100. In 2016, we added some instruments including this clarinet, which can also represent woodwinds as a whole. 🔗 parakeet.co/stock-icons/

The tenth day of Christmas. When we made 159 icons for Nike, we took many opportunities to tie metaphors back to the brand. For this glyph, we incorporated a basketball jersey as an alternate. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/nike-...

The ninth day of Christmas. For Messenger’s 331 icons, several were of people. Compositions included solo, as a pair, and in a group. In addition to gendered figures with hairstyles (like this feminine glyph), we also created a figure without hair. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/messe...

The eighth day of Christmas. In 2023, Parakeet made 24 icons for a Weber accessory that would display glyphs at a smaller, fuzzier resolution. This cow was drawn with that in mind, simplifying shapes down to simple angles and a blockier form. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/weber/

The seventh day of Christmas. Among Magic Passport’s 552 icons, there are two hotels that differ from the others. The Swan and Dolphin were designed by Michael Graves. They feature enormous sculptures on top, which were very useful to make glyphs. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/magic...

The sixth day of Christmas. Egg emoji vary significantly across vendors. When we created 964 emoji for Facebook, to reduce any possible ambiguity for recognition, the egg we made is brown with speckles. 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

The fifth day of Christmas. For the June oven, we made 108 illustrations over the years, like these baked apple rings in a very appetizing golden color. A few fruit and vegetables are presented this way to highlight different angles for those foods. 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

The fourth day of Christmas. *Calling* birds. Get it? Okay. This is one of the 964 emoji illustrations we made for Facebook, in our first year working on that project. Unlike other telephone emoji, this one has all 12 buttons on the face. 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

The third day of Christmas. For Notion, we made a whopping 876 glyphs, including a small set of animals. This chicken was—surprisingly—not the only chicken glyph we created for a client last year. But this one is distinctly geometric. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/notion/

The second day of Christmas. For Junior Hanafuda, we drew this pair of sparrows, which are commonly seen in wintry scenes accompanying bamboo. Only at a glance are they symmetrical, which is a fun, small detail. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/junio...

The first day of Christmas. This beautiful pear illustration was drawn by Luka a few years ago—just for fun—as part of a “Nook Produce” set of 6, with other fruit and bells from Animal Crossing. You can download them all for your Mac. 🔗 parakeet.co/fun/nook-pro...

Merry Christmas! In Notion’s set of 876 icons, we got to tackle holidays: fireworks and chocolate boxes, jack-o-lanterns and menorahs. This Christmas tree was really just a matter of strategically decorating the conifer icon with three circles. Done. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/notion/

Luka always loves to draw snacks. In late 2014, they drew 5 Christmas cookies which were later upscaled for an iMessage sticker app containing 63 snack emoji. Isn’t that subtly wavy frosting imperfectly perfect? 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

For a complex object with limited space, it’s a little tempting to draw a snowflake the same way as the last time, but every one of ours is unique. We’re quite fond of this one for Quill, one of 170 total glyphs made for the project. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/quill/

Symbolically, kiri (柳: paulownia) is used quite extensively in Japan, including as the face of the ¥500 coin. It’s also one of 39 icons we created for Junior Hanafuda to represent the month of December. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/junio...

Walnuts are some of the more unique shapes of food illustrations in the 108-icon June set. This is in the “trio” arrangement we used to show smaller foods, like pecans, almonds, pumpkin seeds, popcorn, carrots, mushrooms, and tater tots. 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...

The ginkgo (イチョウ) leaves are yellow and falling in Tokyo. Brings to mind Redd and his phony artwork in Animal Crossing. He uses that leaf as his personal mark. This hard drive icon is one of 17 in Volume 2 of the downloadable Nook Storage icons. 🔗 parakeet.co/fun/nook-sto...

There were a bunch of fun icons in the 44-glyph Empower set, though this gift box was really special. More typically, we’d draw a ribbon going down the center of the box with a lid, but this time opted for two ribbon ends cut out instead! 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/empow...

Bag icons are best represented with short, right-angle handles. If the handle is too tall or round, it can be confused with a padlock. In this set of 127 icons for Flow, we had to make both icons, so differentiating was very important. 🔗 parakeet.co/glyphs/flow/

Penne all’arrabbiata was one of 10 pasta illustrations we created for Barilla in 2018–2019. Most of the dishes in the set were long pasta with sauce coating the outside, but the penne meant painting sauce on the inside too! 🔗 parakeet.co/illustration...