Icons are also called user pics. They're 100x100. I think the user pics at Tumblr are 150x150 or even bigger? Maybe 200x200? They were really a big deal on Live Journal, and to a lesser degree on DW, because you can change your user pic with every post you make. On Live Journal there were probably hundreds of makers at one time, hundreds of communities, some for individual fandoms, some for stock, some for holidays, for art for sports. You name it, there was an icon community for it. It was something to behold. People who are really into icons can purchase more slots. I have a Seed account here, which means I ponied up some money to help get DW off the ground. Consequently I have 300 icon slots, 290 of them filled. There are users here with 600 icon slots. There are icon communities here on DW for makers to post their works. Some are just for fandom, some are general interest. There are challenge communities here for icon makers. I consider icon making an art form in miniature. I have made a few but my skills are rudimentary to the max. I can't even tell you how many icons I have saved to my hard drive.
I just typed icons into the interest search bar and got nearly 3500 matches, including users and communities.
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Icons are also called user pics. They're 100x100. I think the user pics at Tumblr are 150x150 or even bigger? Maybe 200x200? They were really a big deal on Live Journal, and to a lesser degree on DW, because you can change your user pic with every post you make. On Live Journal there were probably hundreds of makers at one time, hundreds of communities, some for individual fandoms, some for stock, some for holidays, for art for sports. You name it, there was an icon community for it. It was something to behold. People who are really into icons can purchase more slots. I have a Seed account here, which means I ponied up some money to help get DW off the ground. Consequently I have 300 icon slots, 290 of them filled. There are users here with 600 icon slots. There are icon communities here on DW for makers to post their works. Some are just for fandom, some are general interest. There are challenge communities here for icon makers. I consider icon making an art form in miniature. I have made a few but my skills are rudimentary to the max. I can't even tell you how many icons I have saved to my hard drive.
I just typed icons into the interest search bar and got nearly 3500 matches, including users and communities.