Add social media icons to your designs: platform marks and contact icons on transparent backgrounds for adverts, business cards and design footers.
Start designingWhere should social icons sit in a design?
Their natural home is the footer or the bottom bar, because a reader reaches them after the message rather than before it. Keep them one size and one colour matched to the text, since icons each in their own brand colour pull attention away from the content.
What can you design with them?
Business and contact cards
Adverts and posts for shops and services
Footers for designs, signage and brochures
Contact and booking information cards
Presentation covers and templates
How do you keep an icon sharp at any size?
Use a ready icon on a transparent background rather than cutting a logo out of a screenshot, because a cut-out shows ragged edges when scaled up. Leave clear space of at least half an icon's width around each one so the marks do not collide in the bar.