One of the last things I need to do before putting together my user interface in Figma is to have a set of icons.

Before starting the design of my icons, I needed to do a little research in order to decide what styles of icons I should go for

The first place I looked was the Figma community, I like all the icons samples that I see, but most of them was a little too simplest for me (won't fit my illustration style);

I did find one set of icons that I liked on Figam, it was called "doodle icons" and it fitted in with what I was looking for in terms of that hand-drawn quality, I even customised one of the icons to see what it would look like in colour;

Overall even though I really liked this set of icons, it just didn't seem very exciting. Thus I turned my attention to an online source. Through research, I actually found a really good tool called flaticon.com, and it was very usual in explaining to me all the different coomon types of icons;

From the first look, I know that my icons will have a black outline/blue outline to match my illustrations. I think a slight gradient may suit my icons nicely as my illustration background is a gradient.   The only one that I didn't really understand the is "hand-drawn" explanation, I don't see how it differs from the rest, but I understand what it is saying.

At the moment I have yet to decide whether I want my icons to be flat or more 3D, I remember seeing a set of  icons in my teacher paul's lecture and really loving the style;

Although at first look I thought it was a flat icon, now I would actually say it's mixed. Even though it is leaning towards more flat, I can see the strokes of white highlight on certain icons.

I like this icon set a lot because it's exactly how I want my icons to feel like, with simple and clean lines yet very playful and fun at the same time.

Back to flaticon.com, even though to own the download the icons you need to have a membership, it is actually a very good sight to just search for the latest icon trends and look for inspiration. Here are some of the icons That I really liked;

This is the first icon set that I really liked, there is a treasure hunting feel to it. I thought the style will suit the idea of my travel app well.

I really liked this one as well, from the first look its' build is simple but the illustrative element is very fun. I especially liked the match icon and the ice cream icon. There is a holiday campsite feel to this icon set, which I also thought would fit my travel app very well.

Now we come to the 3D icon sets instead of the flat ones. And this is the icon set that convinced me to do my icons more 3D. I think the 3D icons stand from the white background much better ( my app background will be white), add that extra special detail and a bit more unique to the more popular flat icons.