Luc Latulippe

A few months ago, I was twittering with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and he asked if I could make him a little Twitter bird which he could use on his blog to link to his Twitter account (up till this point he’d been borrowing the Twitterrific icon). I said yes, because I thought it would be fun. Next thing I knew, I went a little overboard and designed a whole flock of them. Twenty-four to be exact (click here to see the full collection). There are six different styles, each done in four different colours: Twitter blue, Cardinal Red, Robin Black, and Canary Yellow. Now here they all are, free, for your downloading pleasure. (I’m releasing them under this Creative Commons license.)

The ZIP file below contains four five files:

• an unflattened vector version
• a flattened vector version
• a large PNG version
• NEW! A flattened EPS file, saved down to Illustrator 8
• and a “read me” file

Download: Latulippe_Twitter_Birds_archive.zip

You can edit them to your heart’s content, just send a friendly linky-link back to my site to spread the word (preferably to this post’s URL). When redistributing, whether you modify them or not, all I ask is the following:

• Please do not remove the copyright notice
• Please do not try to pass them off as your own
• Please do not sell them, individually or as a set
• Please do not transfer them onto merchandise or any products which you intend to sell, for example:
  • printing them onto t-shirts you’re selling online: NO
  • printing one onto a t-shirt or sticker for personal use: YES!
  • using them as a logo or as part of a product branding: NO
  • using them on your blog: YES!
  • using them as avatars on services other than Twitter: YES!
  • using them in a book that is about social media: YES!

Essentially, this means they’re for personal use, not commercial use.

Whatever you end up doing with them, please post a link to it below in the comments; I’d really love to see them in action, as well as see what sweet new bird you turned them into.