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Monday, June 15, 2009

Free Buttons: Top Ten (CC-BY)

A long time ago I created a set of buttons for use on my old art website, to number pages.

Back in those days, I was kind of careless and stupid concerning saving the original templates for my artwork. Instead I saved one blank button with a black background, to match that site, which means I can only use those buttons on sites with black backgrounds.

I really liked those buttons a lot, so I recreated them from scratch today, in much better quality than the originals.

sample: Top Ten buttons
(shown actual size)

With transparent backgrounds, they can now be used on any color website. I also made a set with a slight drop shadow, so they would stand out more on lighter backgrounds.

Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license, suitable for both personal and commercial use. Just give credit by linking back to this site on any page that you use them, or in your about box if you use them in a desktop application.

Besides using them to number pages, I think they would be great for numbering items in all those “Top 10” lists that so many bloggers seem to be fond of.

And in case you want to do a top 20 list, I have included .psp and .psd source files of both versions, so you can edit and make more buttons (or change the font).

This item has been moved to my art site.


font used on buttons: Adorable

4 comments:

Online Printing said...

You made another nice set of buttons. Thanks for sharing! I hope you continue making these... :)

Phone Number Lookup said...

I like the button images quite a bit. And you cannot beat the licensing you placed on them.

loadcells said...

the buttons look pretty nice, but aren't they a little too big for showing pages? on the other hand, it's more comfortable to click large images than aiming an 8pt font...

App said...

@loadcells - Did you see how I used them on the original site? They fit in quite well and were not too big at all.