01 · Relationship / woven
Keepsake Knot
Two people keep one ritual tangible. No heart, chat bubble, or linked-circle shorthand—just two unequal bands sharing one offset opening.
Signature · shared asymmetric crossing
Open source · runs on your machine · built for AI agents
One master.
Every surface.
Proven at 16px.
IconFlow is a local CLI and agent workflow that turns one editable SVG into the web, PWA, desktop, and tray assets you select. Automated checks catch mechanical risks; shipping stays blocked until a current six-axis review is recorded against the exact source.
- 20
- techniques
- 6
- review axes
- 100
- gallery cases
- 137
- archive marks
semantic SVG · temporary mark
actual size
review gate passed · 6/6
The living archive
137 original marks, drawn with this method while IconFlow searched for its own logo. Every one opens in the archive with its exact 16px proof.
The expensive mistake
An icon is not finished at 1024px.
Details close. Counters vanish. Tray silhouettes become black squares. IconFlow makes the smallest output the first-class design surface—not the final surprise.
Interactive Proof Lab · a demo of the review surface
Do not trust the mockup.
Inspect the pixels.
These are exact Chromium-rendered PNGs from the approved semantic source. Change the size, surface, crop, or source state.
Actual size
16 × 16 px
16× pixel zoom
ears paired · petals detached · silhouette stable
Remix Lab · runs entirely in your browser
Change the design.
Watch the pixels answer.
One semantic source, three carried objects from one brief, and your own palette. Every thumbnail is rasterized by your browser at its native size—no upload, no image API, no account.
Alpha template = a featureless rounded square. This is why the brand ships a linked mark-only tray source.
Unreviewed remix. This lab shows consequences; IconFlow's gate decides what ships. Take it home and run it through check, review, and ship.
This bends IconFlow's own mark, so your remix carries its licence: CC BY 4.0 — change it, use it commercially, credit IconFlow. For a mark with no conditions at all, start from a public-domain scaffold with iconflow new.
A decision workflow, not a converter
Design. Review. Ship.
Then learn.
Generators make options. Converters make files. IconFlow makes the design decision visible, repeatable, and auditable.
- 01
Brief
Record the user job, essence, palette, clichés, and exact targets.
- 02
Explore
Force four different concepts and give the strongest one an ownable device.
- 03
Compare
Bake finalists into one silhouette-first sheet. Choose shape before polish.
- 04
Inspect
Review native pixels, alpha, crops, light/dark surfaces, and real targets.
- 05
Ship
Build only when automated QA is clean and every human score is at least 4/5.
- 06
Learn
Turn every failed pass into a reusable casebook rule for the next icon.
One pipeline · many worlds
Not another grid
of the same subject.
Relationships, companions, habits, original characters, games, collaboration, and folklore each begin with a different user job—then earn a silhouette that still reads at 16px.
Technique proofSame object
The Flow Gate stays fixed so construction—not subject matter—is the only variable.
Theme worldsDifferent objects
Every case below changes the job, noun, signature device, palette, and technique.
02 · Cat / clay
Catnap Focus
A curled companion turns settling down into one warm gesture. Its tail leaves a broad time wedge beside the sleeping face.
Signature · tail-to-cheek wedge
03 · Dog / line mark
Trail Tail
The dog is the route: one continuous walking contour, one open belly counter, one off-axis coral clasp. No paw or map pin.
Signature · route becomes companion
04 · Fish / stained glass
Koi Return
A single side-view koi makes daily practice feel like swimming upstream. Three bright panes meet one edge-open current cut.
Signature · upstream wake gate
05 · Original story / cel shaded
Quiet Hero
An original persona with no franchise imitation. The asymmetric profile crest and high collar identify the character before the face does.
Signature · crest meets collar notch
06 · Original story / ink brush
Sky Courier
A spoiler-free chapter alert becomes a hand-carried dispatch. The satchel flap rises into one swept wing; the broad dry cut stays open at 16px.
Signature · the prop carries the motion
07 · Collaboration / glass stack
Co-op Lock
Two uneven teammates become ready together. Their translucent keycaps share one opaque square counter—no controller, check, or avatar pair.
Signature · one counter, two arrivals
08 · Animal folklore / woodcut
Forest Familiar
A carved horned owl guides a small companion home. Unequal ear tufts and a split tail name the bird; two edge-open gouges only describe the print.
Signature · species before texture
09 · Game / chrome
Boss Helm
A hard-won raid memory without a trophy, crown, sword, or gamepad. One horn is structurally missing; the ember fracture explains the scar.
Signature · damage changes silhouette
Twenty visual languages · one fixed test object
Same subject on purpose.
Different construction.
The Flow Gate repeats here as a controlled specimen: holding the noun constant exposes each technique's topology, 16px contract, and monochrome strategy. The Theme Worlds above prove the system is not limited to that subject.
Relationships
Woven
Interlaced bands with explicit knockout gaps.
Collaboration
Glass stack
Translucent planes around an opaque skeleton.
Original stories
Cel shaded
One ink contour and one decisive shadow plane.
Craft & culture
Ink brush
A tapered gesture with one broad dry cut.
Games & music
Chrome
Six hard value bands inside one solid contour.
Animals & folklore
Woodcut
A closed relief mass with edge-open gouges.
The living archive · every mark IconFlow drew while searching for its own
Not one logo.
A whole living archive.
Machines, companions, hidden-brand anatomy, an orchard, a canopy, a cat. Every direction is an original SVG drawn with the method, rendered by the same engine, and compared at native size — and every one is one click from its exact 16px proof.
The ones that passed review.
Each of these passed review: clean check, static review, exact color tray and alpha template, a receipt bound to the SVG hash, and ship with every axis at 4/5 or better (legibility / distinctiveness / balance / color / scalability / craft). The rest stayed honest studies — and they are in the archive too.
137 directions · 7 rounds · 19 passed review or were promoted, including the current temporary mark
The proof is visible
Every claim has
an artifact behind it.
Concept bake-off
Petal Haypile was chosen from a 28-direction living exploration; here it sits beside four gated finalists at native sizes.
Target-aware review
Actual pixels, not a decorative device mockup.
$ iconflow ship \
--config iconflow.toml \
--review master-review.json
✓ source hash matches
✓ 0 automated warnings
✓ all six axes ≥ 4/5
23 files built03 · Ship
Fail-closed release
A stale receipt or weak score stops the build.
Run the five-minute proof
Your icon deserves
an honest final mile.
Choose the agent-assisted path or drive the CLI directly, then build the packaged IconFlow brand family. Five minutes proves the engine, not a new identity; setup downloads Chromium once, and nothing else leaves your machine.
python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install iconflow
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m iconflow demo --setup `
--out iconflow-demo