The Many Faces of Iconfu

Not all colours are equal, and not all backgrounds are white. What do you do when you're designing an icon for a site with a dark background? You change the background of your favourite icon editor, of course!

It's easy to do: in the colour chooser, choose the colour you want to use for the background, open the "appearance" panel on the bottom right, and click "use current colour" for "background". Voilà!

New iconfu

The latest and greatest iconfu is here:

• A shiny new colour selector with HSV sliders as well as RGB sliders and a palette of basic colours (with instant conversion between HSV and RGB)
• Automatic preview-as-favicon of your work in progress
• Comment on icons
• "who's online" so you know you're not alone
• Three quick built-in tutorials so you can start using the most powerful iconfu features straight away
• Gravatar integration so you have more control over your online identity
• Search for icons within a particular collection while editing
• Easliy draw anti-aliased straight lines
• Fixed GIF downloading - some icons would fail to download as GIF due to internal errors

Enjoy! And go vote for iconfu at killerstartups.com