NA City Icons - 544 custom icons for North American cities
Show HN: An icon for every city in North America
NA City Icons is a free, open-source collection of 544 custom-designed icons representing cities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each icon captures the unique character of a city, from Mexico City to New York to Toronto, making it easy to visually identify locations in maps, apps, or presentations. The icons are available in PNG format and can be downloaded individually or as a complete set. With a searchable interface and an interactive map, users can quickly find and preview icons. Whether you're a designer, developer, or map enthusiast, this library provides a consistent and attractive way to represent North American cities in your projects.
An icon for every city in North America — 544 custom designs that give each city a unique visual identity.
- Supermancho
AI icons, ofc...some of which are questionable (as it is with AI). Many of them are generic clock tower icons with small variations, while some are showing an icon that is based on a marginal attraction in the area. eg Irvine is known for the Irvine Company, John Wayne Airport, not for the symbolic amusement park hot air balloon raised in 2007.
- frmersdog
I'm enthusiastic about the idea, but I think the approach is flawed. "Cities over 100k" misses the real regional keystones (some of which are really counties, not cities), so I'm seeing ones that I would expect to be there missing. And the ones I do know aren't the best represented.
Specifics: Alexandria is basically DC, and probably shouldn't be included without several places that are missing in Maryland. I have no idea what Baltimore's icon is supposed to be (edit: wait, is that supposed to be the Domino Sugar sign?), and while the Capitol dome is a decent choice, the Washington Monument would probably work better as a symbol of Washington.
This could really be a launching point for crowdsourcing a more handcrafted set, though.
- throwaway2016a
Interesting idea but it is weirdly inconsistent. Their own icon shows Burlington Vermont only has a population of 44k yet it was used as the poster city in the example.
Meanwhile, cities like Nashua, New Hampshire (the second largest city North of Boston in New England) is absent because it only has about ~93k people despite being driving distance to BVT.
It is also worth noting that in the US, city status is not directly tied to population.
Portland Maine is 66k people and it has an icon.
Edit: also interesting that for Boston it is the Zacim Bridge, which is iconic but wouldn't have been my first thought. I would have thought a lobster, or a pilgrim hat, or Fenway park or something like that.