Icon Design · Reading
Icon Design in Reading
Custom icon sets for Reading businesses whose product or website needs symbols that mix badly when taken from three free libraries. Icons are unforgiving at small sizes — line weights, corner treatment and optical balance all have to be consistent or the set looks accidental.
Why this comes up
The problem
Icons get taken from wherever is convenient, so a page mixes three line weights and two visual styles. Individually each looks fine; together they read as assembled rather than designed.
What you get
What we deliver
- A defined grid, line weight and corner treatment applied across the whole set
- Optical adjustment per icon, since mathematically identical icons look uneven
- Drawn at the size they will be used, not scaled down from large artwork
- SVG output optimised, with the ability to inherit colour from CSS
- Accessible naming and labelling guidance, since an icon alone is not a label
- Source files and rules, so new icons added later match the existing family
Want this scoped for your business in Reading?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what icon design would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Reading
South East
Reading anchors the Thames Valley technology corridor, and local firms are often part of large enterprise supply chains where security review and integration standards are set by someone else.
Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains.
Sectors we work with in Reading
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Adobe Illustrator
- Figma
- SVG
- SVGO
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- SaaS platforms
- Ecommerce
- Healthcare
- Financial services
- Education
Why us
Why Reading businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Icon Design in Reading — common questions
- Why not use a free icon library?
- For most websites that is entirely sensible, and we will say so. Custom sets earn their cost when you need concepts no library covers, or when your product's interface is dense enough that a mismatched set becomes visibly untidy.
- Do icons need text labels?
- Almost always. Very few icons are universally understood beyond a handful — a magnifying glass, a printer. Icon-only interfaces test poorly and create accessibility problems, so labels are the default and icon-only is the exception.
- Why do icons need optical adjustment?
- Because the eye does not measure. A circle drawn to the same bounding box as a square looks smaller, so it is drawn slightly larger to appear equal. A set built purely to a grid looks subtly wrong without anyone identifying why.
- What format do we get?
- Optimised SVG that inherits colour from your stylesheet, so one file works in light and dark themes. Icon fonts are a legacy approach with accessibility drawbacks and we would steer away from them.
- Do you work with businesses across Berkshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South East, including Reading and the surrounding Berkshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Reading businesses do you usually work with?
- Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains. Beyond that we work across Technology, Telecommunications, Financial Services and Professional Services.
- Do you cover the areas around Reading?
- Yes — we work throughout South East, including Oxford, London, Milton Keynes, Southampton. Reading is an urban area of roughly 340,000+, and we take on work across the wider Berkshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Icon Design in Reading
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise