I just tied up a couple of loose ends left over from previous versions of the site; I wound down two rss feeds which I’d stopped updating long ago, and I added a link to the new mofaha.com blog feed on the main navigation menu. Then I spent some time looking for a plain little rss feed icon to put alongside the link to make it easy to see.

Here’s the thing: I’m probably too impatient, but it didn’t look to me as if I was ever going to find what I was looking for. Pretty much everything I saw had that shiny web 2.0 sheen. I have a couple of problems with that, but let’s stick with the easy stuff and say that those kinds of icons don’t generally scale down very well to small sizes. Gradients in particular suffer when they’re over-reduced, and lots of the glass effects rely heavily on gradients.

Anyway, I’ve ended up making my own set of rss icons for use on the site. I’ll only really need the smallest sizes, and those are the ones that work best. They’re simple, flat, 3-colour icons with slightly rounded corners. All of them are in .gif format, and the transparency at the corners has grey matting, which should let them work fairly well on most backgrounds.

I’m pleased to offer them here under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. You can download the individual sizes you need right from the page, and there’s a zip archive containing all of them. Enjoy.

… and here’s the zip file of them all.