 Click the name in the index to have giffed version of an icon appear in the top left frame.The default color of your browser window will be used as the background color. The number at the end of each entry [ 9 ] refers to the version number in which the icon was first released; this provides a sort of chronology for potential Ph.D. candidates. The following are mostly included. |
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| 0000000 | A subtle indication that those icons that are not already copyrighted are nonetheless still copyrighted (by me) [6] |
| 2000 | The Millennium is coming: characters 2000 in the sky over some mountains: wow. Awesome. [4] |
| 2K | Icon created on December 31, 1999: HOORAY! for the new year! [10] |
| 2K2 | The first calendar month of 2000 [10] |
| 2THBRUS2 | In support of dental health and hygiene [3] |
| 2THBRUSH | Much the same [3] |
| 3DDOTS1 | Dot figures of two people bustling to the left; becomes a random pattern of elevated dots with 3-d viewing; see README.3-D below for this and for the other 3D*.ICO icons [4] |
| 3DFACE1 | Face for 3-d viewing [4] |
| 3DIAMOND | Three diamonds; logo of Mitsubishi [10] |
| 3DOS2 | Characters O, S, and 2; with 3-d viewing, the 2 is closest to the eye. [4] |
| 3DSPECS | Red/green glasses atop a button, for 3-d displays; NOT a true 3-d icon, so don't cross your eyes at it [3] |
| 3DSTEPS1 | Steps; with 3-d viewing, the lowest step is the highest (huh?) [4] |
| 3DTEST1 | Pattern of dots to practice 3-d viewing [4] |
| 3DTEST2 | As with 3DTEST1 [4] |
| 3DTEST3 | As with 3DTEST1 [4] |
| 3DVOL1 | Volcano; left of a stereo pair with 3DVOL2.ICO [4] |
| 3DVOL2 | Right of the stereo pair with 3DVOL1.ICO; you can stare DOWN into the fiery heart of the volcano! [4] |
| 3PALMS | Logo of my sister-in-law's pasta company [9] |
| 8BALL | An 8-ball, as per billiards [7] |
| A&B1 | Assault and battery; sigh. Idea not original. [4] |
| AALINES | Logo of American Airlines; Just Another Boring Airline Logo (JABAL*) [9] |
| ABBA | Celebrating the late, great Swedish singing group [10] |
| ABE1 | Attempted portrait of Lincoln; put a white pixel or so in each eye for a disturbingly demented look [4] |
| ACORN | From which great oaks grow [10] |
| AEROMEX | Logo of AeroMexico Airlines; JABAL* [9] |
| AFRICA1 | Outline map of Africa [8] |
| AFRICA2 | Outline map with word "Africa," in case you thought it was South America [8] |
| AIUM | Logo of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine [4] |
| ALAMO | to help you Remember the Alamo [8] |
| ALIENS1 | Weird creatures in silhouette [4] |
| ALIENS2 | More weird creatures, in eerie white-on-black [6] |
| ALIENS3 | More of those strange creatures [10] |
| ALOE | The healing vegetable [10] |
| AMONLINE | America Online: U.S. map with telegraph lines, triangle [2] |
| ANARCHY | Oh, the hideous scarlet letter of ANARCHY! On a field, sable, the letter A, gules, or something along those lines [8] |
| ANGIOPLS | A catheter opening a cholesterol-clogged artery, hooray [8] |
| ANKH | Egyptian life symbol [10] |
| ANNOY | It even annoys me [8] |
| ARBOR | A tree in the form of the letter A [10] |
| ARCH | The Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris [10] |
| ARRWHEAD | A flint projectile point [10] |
| ATLAS2 | Non-representational Atlas holding up the world [7] |
| ATTACK | WWII fighter attack out of the sun [10] |
| AUTORACE | Well, an auto race [4] |
| B17 | WW2 bomber [6] |
| BADBOYS | Color code of electric wires: BBROYGBVGW: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, etc. But Violet gives willingly. [8] |
| BADSEEP | Bad seep [10] |
| BALLOON | Hot-air balloon [6] |
| BANDIT2 | Jaundiced desperado with pistol [3] |
| BANG | Asteroid stikes Earth; the Birth of the Moon, heigh ho [5] |
| BARN01 | Ruin of the barn by moonlight [10] |
| BARN02 | The barn in a healthier state [10] |
| BARN03 | The barn from a different angle [10] |
| BARN04 | The barn now oh aging badly [10] |
| BATTERY | Battery, no salt [7] |
| BBQ3 | A happy home barbeque [6] |
| BEACON1 | The beacon, from above [9] |
| BEACON2 | The beacon, from the side [9] |
| BEE | Honey bee [8] |
| BELL01 | Bell hanging batless in a belfry [10] |
| BELL02 | The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia [10] |
| BIKE1 | To meet that ever-present need for a motorcycle icon [4] |
| BIKE2 | To meet that same need with a slightly larger motorcycle [4] |
| BIKE3 | Ditto, but motorcycle has high-speed fairing [4] |
| BIKER | Motorcyclist getting it on in the countryside [3] |
| BINOCS | Binoculars [6] |
| BIOHZRD | Biohazard symbol [10] |
| BIRD01 | A nonspecific but pleasing bird [8] |
| BIRD02 | Rock painting from Chicoasen; Mayan or Archaic [10] |
| BIRDPARA | Bird-of-paradise flower [10] |
| BLAIRWCH | From the movie "The Blair Witch Project" [9] |
| BLDING01 | Nonspecific building with columns [10] |
| BLIMP2 | Blimp over a nameless city [10] |
| BLIVET | Or widget, as you like [7] |
| BLUBIRD1 | Well, a silly bird [7] |
| BLUBIRD2 | Another; perhaps the Bluebird of Happiness? No? [7] |
| BLUE1 | Blue words "BIG BLUE" [5] |
| BLUE2 | Same, only cutely done in red; yes, I know.... [5] |
| BLUEJAY | Image inspired by, if those are the words, a postage stamp [8] |
| BLUEMAN | A strangely electric entity [10] |
| BLUHERO1 | Blue heron standing in water [4] |
| BLUHERO2 | Blue heron in flight; from photo by Henry Holdsworth [7] |
| BLUHERO3 | Yes, another blue heron; I LOVE those guys! [8] |
| BLWIDOW1 | Black widow spider seen from the bottom [10] |
| BLWIDOW2 | Black widow spider from a U.S. postage stamp [10] |
| BMW | Emblem of a car; design based on an airplane propeller [8] |
| BOA | Bank of America logo, I think now defunct [3] |
| BOAT1 | Indifferent sailboat with spinakker sail [3] |
| BOAT2 | Sailing vessel under full sail [3] |
| BOAT3 | Line drawing of a boat [8] |
| BOAT4 | Merry little red boat bounds over the waves [10] |
| BOAT5 | More of the same [10] |
| BOMB | Well, a bomb, an infernal device, with word "TICK" stupidly included (TOCK implied) [4] |
| BOOK | Generic book, with illustration and ribbon [9] |
| BOOKS | A shelf of books, archaic things that they are [7] |
| BOTTLE | Is it part empty, or part full? [6] |
| BRAIN1, BRAIN2, BRAIN3, BRAIN4 | Four renditions of a brain; colored versions show lobes. My favorite is the colored version on black, but the others may have their uses. A few pixels of red on the plain version give a freshly-dissected look, but may be a tad revolting. [3] |
| BROCCOLI | A delicious sprig o' broccoli (ugh) [8] |
| BSNO | Defecating bull, yuk, with negation symbol [2] |
| BTTLSHIP | Battleship firing its guns [9] |
| BUDDHA1 | Silhouette of The Buddha [9] |
| BUDDHA2 | Temple Buddha from Bangkok [10] |
| BUDDY | The late, great rock musician [9] |
| BUG1 | An insect, conceivably an ant [6] |
| BUG2 | The dreaded huge, ugly giant root borer (Prionus spp.) [6] |
| BUG3 | Weird green insect [10] |
| BUGKILL | Insecticide [6] |
| BULLET | Cartridge, helpfully labeled 9 mm [4] |
| BUNSEN | A Bunsen burner [7] |
| BURGER | A delicious hamburger a la The Whopper [3] |
| BUTFLY01 | Butterfly from, I think, Costa Rica [10] |
| BUTFLY02 | More fanciful butterfly [10] |
| BUTTON | With a finger-like thing pushing it [5] |
| BUZZARD | A buzzard in flight [8] |
| CABLECAR | San Francisco cable car, climbing halfway to the stars [7] |
| CADUCEUS | Caduceus [1] |
| CALENGL2 | Calendar girl (female torso with calendar) [1] |
| CALGIRLS | Two calendar girls, with simulated calendar to meet minimal standards of decency and social worth [3] |
| CAMEL | Yes, from a cigarette ad [6] |
| CAN | This, together with CANT.ICO, becomes pretty self-explanatory [10] |
| CANDLE | Greenish candle in a candle holder [7] |
| CANOE | A canoe on a mountain lake, where I wish I were when Fiji fantasies fade. I had in mind Lake Louise, in Alberta. [3] |
| CANT | As part of a pair with CAN above: nor can it [10] |
| CAPETOWN | A Cape Town logo; depicts Table Mountain, more or less [8] |
| CAR1 | I guess the word is "whimsical" [7] |
| CAR2 | Odd car before cityscape, or something [7] |
| CAR3 | Front of oldish car, from a bulk-rate postage stamp [8] |
| CARDINAL | The bird, not the cleric; a favorite of many correspondents [1] |
| CART | Shopping cart, I guess [7] |
| CARTER | Logo of Jimmy Carter's Carter Center [8] |
| CASTLE1 | Scene through a ruined battlement [6] |
| CASTLE2 | The chess castle (see Chess04) seen as real [9] |
| CAT01 | Detail from a 15-16th century Inca tunic [7] |
| CAT02 | Silhouette of a plump cat [9] |
| CAT03 | Another seated cat silhouette [9] |
| CAT04 | Another cat silhouette [9] |
| CAT05 | Yet another; somewhat startled cat [9] |
| CAT06 | Halloween-style cat; my cat actually does this [9] |
| CAT07 | The endless series of cats continues [9] |
| CAT08 | Another cat silhouette, and on and on it goes [10] |
| CATCHER2 | It combs dreams out of the aether and such [10] |
| CATSEYE2 | Drawn from life: Her Royal Hairness < |
| CBS | CBS eye logo (not as interesting as NBC's peacock) [4] |
| CELLULAR | Cellular phone [6] |
| CENT | One red penny, a nearly useless coin [7] |
| CHAINS4 | A symmetric design [7] |
| CHAOS1 | Mandelbrot set; there exist better versions of this [1] |
| CHAOS2 | Says here this is an I CHING ideogram meaning chaos, copied from a calligraphy print by Yunn Pann [5] |
| CHEMLAB | Lab apparatus [7] |
| CHESS03 | A knight chess piece against a chessboard [6] |
| CHESS04 | Similar, with a castle or rook [9] |
| CHESS05 | Again, but with a bishop [9] |
| CHESS06 | Just a pawn in your game [10] |
| CHESS07 | The queen Herself [10] |
| CHESS08 | The king, a fairly useless piece, actually [10] |
| CHESS09 | Another knight; different style [10] |
| CHESTCT | Computerized tomographic slice of the chest [7] |
| CHILI | [ 10 ] |
| CHKRBRD3 | A checkerboard [8] |
| CIGS2 | Two cigarettes in their natural states, unretouched [3] |
| CIGS3 | A nameless packet of cigarettes: fear it [6] |
| CLOCK | That annoying little OS/2 clock, cognate with the Windoze hourglass, q.v. [6] |
| CLOSPIN | Yes, a clothespin [6] |
| CLOVER | The lucky, four-leafed variety [7] |
| CLUBLJ | Modified from the logo of my gym (Club La Jolla) [10] |
| COLUMNS1 | Columns with white figure [9] |
| COLUMNS2 | Similar, but more enigmatic [9] |
| COMANCHE | U.S. Army cybercopter [9] |
| COMBLOCK | Plain old boring combination lock [9] |
| COMET | Comet, telescopic view [5] |
| COMPASS | Compass rose [5] |
| CONTOUR | A steep place on a contour map [10] |
| COOLER | A water cooler, with characters H20; thrilling, huh? [4] |
| COSMOS | Moon and stars, mostly for EZ-Cosmos [1] |
| COWBOY | Just a lonesome cowpoke [8] |
| COYOLXA2 | The deceased goddess Coyolxauhqui, from the monolith found at the Great Pyramid in Mexico City; colors arbitrary [10] |
| CPM | Letters CP/M; for all those old CP/M programs hanging around on your hard disk, of which I'm sure there are myriads [6] |
| CRAB01 | A crab [8] |
| CRASH1 | Word CRASH, with explosion [6] |
| CRASH2 | Two racing cars, one of which is in trouble (recall the racing motto: "Keep the rubber side down.") [6] |
| CREATIVE | Supposedly Chinese symbols meaning Creative Power; see also CRISIS.ICO for my confession of Kanji helplessness [10] |
| CREATUR1 | A two-headed inhabitant of my dreams [8] |
| CREATUR2 | Another [8] |
| CREATUR3 | Another dream creature: it develops inside a banana skin, and it has a single eye like an egg yolk [10] |
| CRISIS | Supposedly Chinese for "crisis" or "danger;" would appreciate confirmation from someone knowledgeable. Round- [4] |
| CROSS04 | A four-pointed star; fun to tinker with the colors [6] |
| CROSS05 | A just slightly boring Maltese cross [7] |
| CROSS06 | Nonrepresentational thing; vaguely Christian [8] |
| CROSS07 | Another cross, more strongly Christian [8] |
| CROSS08 | Christian variety cross, uh, floating [9] |
| CROSS09 | Starry crosses [9] |
| CROSS10 | Irish Celtic cross [9] |
| CROSS11 | The crosses in this collection never seem to end [10] |
| CROSS12 | Patriarchal cross with an odd shadow [10] |
| CROW | [10] |
| CRUCFIG | Rock painting from Cueva de la Malinche; Colonial or Late Postclassic Mesoamerican [10] |
| CRUISE1 | Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines logo [3] |
| CRUISEMS | Just your routine little cruise missile [6] |
| CRYPTO | From cover and chapter heads of "Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson [10] |
| CURVES | Colored holes overlapping one another [10] |
| CUT&PSTE | Scissors and paste pot [6] |
| DAGGER | A dagger [3] |
| DANCER | Tripping the light fantastic [8] |
| DARWIN | Fairly self-explanatory: fish with feet [9] |
| DATA | Data both analog and digital, being processed or something [10] |
| DAYODEAD | Mexican Day of the Dead image: half face, half skull [9] |
| DBLDKR | London double-decker bus [9] |
| DDAY44 | Shot-up Nazi flag; actually completed June 6, 1994 [4] |
| DELTA | Delta Airlines logo; (JABAL*) [3] |
| DERRICK | Sunset view of an oil field [7] |
| DESIGN01 | "Aztec" design from a painting by Diego Rivera [10] |
| DESIGN02 | B/W design [10] |
| DESIGN04 | Another B/W design [10] |
| DICE | Pair 'o dice [6] |
| DISH | Satellite dish [7] |
| DISKETTE | Everybody's gotta make one of these [7] |
| DOG01 | Silhouette of a dog [9] |
| DOG02 | Another [9] |
| DOG03 | Silhouette of plump, seated dog [9] |
| DOG04 | Dog silhouette [10] |
| DOLPHIN1 | Dolphin grinning, his head out of the water [6] |
| DOLPHIN2 | Lonesome dolphin lurking in deepish waters [10] |
| DOLPHIN3 | Dolphin merrily leaps from the water [10] |
| DOME | A dome [6] |
| DOMINO | Homage, more or less, to the television series "Twin Peaks" [10] |
| DOOROPEN | Same door as DOOR_3 but opened; some sorta dumb message here? [2] |
| DOOR_3 | Door in a battered brick wall (into Hotel California?) [2] |
| DOPPLER1 | Color-mapped Doppler ultrasound examination of the carotids [5] |
| DOVE | Peaceful little critter [8] |
| DRAGON | The English rather than the Chinese variety [10] |
| DUALBOOT | Two boots, for OS/2 literalists who are still running DOS and who want to do that "dual boot" thang; or for foot fetishists [1] |
| DUMMY | From the wonderful "For Dummies" series of books [6] |
| Electronic mailbox or whatever [9] | |
| EAGLE1 | Face shot of an eagle [4] |
| EAGLE2 | Aztec design of eagle-warrior, unless it's a vulture [4] |
| EAGLE3 | Eagle, stretching its wings, I guess [4] |
| EAGLE4 | Eagle stooping [9] |
| EAGLEMAN | Painterly drawing of an eagle-man [10] |
| EAR | Ear, with musical notes [6] |
| EARRING | One of the earrings my Significent Other makes [7] |
| EARTH | Portrait of our magnificent planet from space [9] |
| EASTER1 | The Tomb, with stone rolled away; from the Gospel of Mark, not Luke [6] |
| EATATBLU | Okay, a frank but unpaid plug for Blues, my favorite Cape Town restaurant [9] |
| EBUNNY | Easter bunny, with eggs [6] |
| ECG | Electrocardiogram tracing [6] |
| EIFFEL | The tower in Paris [10] |
| ELEPH1 | Elephant silhouette, sniffing the air for danger [9] |
| ELEPH2 | Very similar to ELEPH1, but animal is just ambling along [9] |
| ELEPH3 | Another elephant silhouette [10] |
| ENTWINED | Male and female symbols [6] |
| EQUUS1 | The front end of a horse, neighing or threatening to bite [4] |
| ESTERISL | Stone head from Easter Island (a "Long-Ear," if you like); I have seen a way better one of these, somewhere [4] |
| EYECON1 | Eye and eyebrow, for the delightful EYECON program which is unfortunately an OS/2 program: an eye on the screen follows the cursor around; one of the many things I miss about OS/2 [5] |
| EYECON2 | Bloodshot eye [6] |
| FACE07 | Man's face; no, not a Kennedy [1] |
| FACE08 | A less representational face [6] |
| FACE09 | Sort of scrambled and nonrepresentational [7] |
| FACE10 | A doubled, exaggerated Black stereotype [7] |
| FACE11 | Odd; grey with headdress; okay, I < |
| FACE15 | Profile; sort of nonrepresentational [7] |
| FACE16 | Profile with shadow [7] |
| FACE18 | Another in a profile series [7] |
| FACE19 | Face it, I continue to like faces [10] |
| FACE20 | The ki'i wahine lashed to the port hull of the Hokule'a (q.v.) during voyages [10] |
| FACE21 | Woman's face with suggestion of a cannon-ball hole in her head; just a suggestion, mind you [10] |
| FACES1 | Two faces, more or less [6] |
| FACES2 | White and black children's faces [6] |
| FATLADY | Yogi Berra's fat lady sings: it's finally over [6] |
| FAULTS03 | Geologic slips-n'-slides [10] |
| FAXN | Phone with a fax sheet eerily emerging from it [6] |
| FERWHEEL | A ferrous wheel; sigh [6] |
| FILEPEEK | Egyptian-style eye of Horus [1] |
| FIMO1 | 65 gm block of a popular polymer clay [4] |
| FIRE1 | Kanji character for fire [8] |
| FIRE2 | A merrily burning fire [8] |
| FIREGIRL | Sort of a fire-woman icon [8] |
| FISH08 | Fish [3] |
| FISH09 | Fish with ragged fins [8] |
| FISH10 | Colorful tropical fish [8] |
| FISH11 | Logo of El Pescador Fish Market, La Jolla, California [9] |
| FISH12 | A variety of butterfly fish, I think [9] |
| FISH13 | Moorish idol [9] |
| FISH14 | A fish getting ready to be eaten [10] |
| FISHTACO | Really handy fish taco icon: multiple applications [5] |
| FLMINGO | Flamingo [8] |
| FLOSS | A tooth hanging from floss; symbolism obvious [3] |
| FLOWR01 | Flower [6] |
| FLOWR02 | Flowers [6] |
| FLOWR03 | Flowers [6] |
| FLOWR04 | Flower [6] |
| FLOWR05 | Yet another; I wish I knew what kinds these are [6] |
| FLOWR06 | A rose on greenish background [10] |
| FNORD! | Ill-seen characters FNORD!; it is hard to see the fnords, but easier on a black background. Fnord is a mantra in the Discordian religion, as you doubtless already know. [4] |
| FORMAT1 | Floor mat (yes, admittedly, REALLY corny) [1] |
| FPRINT | Fingerprint; no two are alike [9] |
| FRGBIRD1 | Frigate bird puffing out its crimson chest [8] |
| FRGBIRD2 | Frigate bird in flight [8] |
| FRUIT1 | Still life with fruit, electrical banana [2] |
| FURNACE | The Biblical fiery furnace; see (weird) Daniel 3:25 [8] |
| GALLOWS1 | Icon for Hangman game [5] |
| GALLOWS2 | More of the creepy, dispiriting same [6] |
| GATEWAY | Gateway to what? and well might you ask [7] |
| GATOR1 | Ole Louisiana swamp alligator [4] |
| GEM | I had in mind a cut diamond [10] |
| GEMINI | Sonographic view of twins, early in gestation [5] |
| GESTURE | Upraised middle finger, symbolizing health and long life [2] |
| GIBRALT | Rock of Gibralter, a la Prudential Insurance [7] |
| GIRAFFE1 | Giraffe heading home in the sunset [4] |
| GIRAFFE2 | Giraffe face [7] |
| GIRAFFE3 | A giraffe running, with acacia tree in the background [8] |
| GLYPH1 | Mayan glyph "Cimi;" yes, Mayan glyphs were brightly colored, way back when they were new [3] |
| GLYPHS2 | Odd little piece [8] |
| GOLF1 | Folks trudging through a merry game on the links [6] |
| GOLF2 | A drive about to happen [6] |
| GOLGOTHA | Crucifixion scene [5] |
| GOLGOTHB | A somewhat less representational depiction of the Crucifixion [7] |
| GOLGOTHC | A single cross [8] |
| GOTHICA | Gothic letter A; advertisment for my collection of Gothic letter icons [7] |
| GOTHICD | Similar; letter D [7] |
| GRAIL | Yes, the Wholly Grail [8] |
| GRARCH | A Greek arch, overlooking the ocean [8] |
| GREBE1 | A grebe in the water [7] |
| GREBE2 | Back of the head of similar grebe [7] |
| GREEKHEL | Greek battle helmet, Corinthian style, 6th century B.C. [3] |
| GREENDOR | Really strange things happen behind the green door [7] |
| GRNSPOT | This is the green spot [10] |
| GRVYRD | Landscape of a graveyard, not quite as spooky as I'd wished [3] |
| GUILIN | The Li River, near Guilin, China; not exactly a handy, all-purpose icon, but you never know [2] |
| GUN1 | Semiautomatic pistol [4] |
| GUNS | Usually I try not to be political, but could not resist [10] |
| GYMNIST | Inspired by the Year 2000 Sydney summer Olympics [10] |
| HALOWEEN | Jack-o'-lantern [9] |
| HAMSICK | The hammer and sickle of revolution, etc. [10] |
| HAND1 | Kirlian photograph of a hand, with aura, sort of, I guess [7] |
| HAND3 | A version of that awful little pointing hand we all know and love [8] |
| HANDLERY | Logo of the (excellent) Handlery Hotels [8] |
| HANGOVER | Self-explanatory [10] |
| HARDHAT | Protection for construction workers [6] |
| HAWAII1 | Hawaiian islands, with text label [5] |
| HAWAII2 | Same, without label [5] |
| HAWAII3 | The big island of Hawaii [5] |
| HAWAIIAN | Hawaiian Airlines logo (JABAL*) [10] |
| H-BOMB1 | Touching portrait of a hydrogen bomb explosion [9] |
| H-BOMB2 | Similar; both are from photographs [9] |
| H-COPTER | U.S. military helicopter [9] |
| HCAPPED | Handicapped symbol [10] |
| HEART1 | Heart after cardiectomy (the famed Aztec procedure), for Valentine's Day use or whatever [4] |
| HEART2 | Valentine greeting [7] |
| HEART5 | Stylized heart formed by red dots on a yellow background [7] |
| HEARTS1 | A design of shrinking hearts [8] |
| HEARTS2 | Design of heart shapes [10] |
| HELP3 | A desperate face and "HELP;" face looks good in yellow, too [2] |
| HENCKELS | Logo of Henckels (excellent) knives [9] |
| HGLASS | The hideous Windoze symbol for wasting your time [6] |
| HIDDEN | [10] |
| HNGDMAN2 | [10] |
| HOCAL1, HOCAL2 | "There's plenty of room at the Hotel California." [The Eagles] There's plenty of room because the hotel spreads over two icons. What you do is, put the two icons together to make a single image. Ominous colors reflect the mood of The Eagles' song; cheer it up, if you like. Paint the hotel yellow. Lighten up the sky. Things can get too gloomy. [2] |
| HOKULEA | Double-hulled, twin-sailed replica of a Polynesian long- [10] |
| HNGDMAN2 | The Tarot hanged man (upside down) [10] |
| HOMELESS | Homeless person with shopping cart; rather a sad icon [2] |
| HOODORN | Automobile hood ornament [7] |
| HORNET | Unless it's a bee [3] |
| HORSE | Horse silhouette [10] |
| HOTELDEL | Logo of San Diego's Hotel del Coronado [8] |
| HOUSDAY | A hillside house [3] |
| HOUSNITE | Same house at night [3] |
| HUH5 | Ugly Windoze 3.1 program group icon, saying what it says when you try to replace it with a more appealing icon [6] |
| ICON | Idiotic self-defining thing: delete immediately [2] |
| INFINITY | The symbol, with Swedish colors, for no particular reason [7] |
| INSTITUT | Ja, this is der Institute [7] |
| INTERNT1 | Network sort of maze; to celebrate The Internet [3] |
| INTROSPC | The joys of introspection [9] |
| ITFLIES | Maybe an angel, maybe something more ominous; in any case, it flies [7] |
| JACK | A phone jack [5] |
| JAGUAR | Overly cartoony view of his face [6] |
| JANITOR | Hunkish janitor, adapted from the logo of the National Sanitary Supply Company [10] |
| JANUS1 | The two-headed Roman one: guards doors and gates [8] |
| JANUS2 | Another version [8] |
| JOHNCASH | The singer Johnny Cash, complete with guitar [10] |
| JOLLYROG | The Jolly Roger; the classic pirate flag [7] |
| JOYSTICK | Joystick [3] |
| JUNGLE | Machete and vines [5] |
| KACHINA1 | A Pueblo deified ancestral spirit, with a rich tradition [10] |
| KACHINA2 | Another [10] |
| KACHINA3 | Another [10] |
| KACHINA4 | Another [10] |
| KACHINA5 | And another [10] |
| KANISZA | Can you see the Kanisza triangle, made of negative space? [8] |
| KAYAK | Kayak going downstream, as they typically do [8] |
| KEY | Well, this here is the key icon [7] |
| KEYHOLE | And this is the hole for the key [7] |
| KIBO1 | Unauthorized icon of the Usenet god Kibo (a Discordian heresy), with all due respect to James Parry [4] |
| KIBO2 | Another version, another mood [7] |
| KIBO4 | Yet another version; ask not what became of number 3 [7] |
| KILLWHL1 | Killer whale breaching in the Strait of Juan de Fuca [4] |
| KISS | Celebrating the rock group [6] |
| KNIFE | Of the useful Swiss Army variety [7] |
| KODAK | The red and yellow of the Mother of All Moments [8] |
| KOKOPEL | Kokopelli the water-bearer of the Southwestern desert; see also SOWEST3.ICO [10] |
| LAJOLLA2 | My home town, pronounced "La HOY-ya," and thought by some to mean "The Jewel" and by others "The Water Bottle," etc. [10] |
| LAJOLLA3 | The initials L and J, again [10] |
| LAWYER | A fish, of the great white variety; may you never have to use this icon [2] |
| LAZYDOG | A "Lazy Dog" missile, just over an inch long, dropped by the bushel from aircraft during WW II; they hit with the impact of a bullet; isn't that interesting? [5] |
| LENS1 | Camera lens [8] |
| LENS2 | Another [8] |
| LETBURN | The burning letter [10] |
| LETGRE | This is the damaged green letter [10] |
| LETMAG | This is the closely examined letter [10] |
| LETRED | This is the torn red letter [10] |
| LETYEL | This is the ripped yellow letter [10] |
| LIFE | Elements of Conway's game of Life [1] |
| LIFEFLIT | Life-flight air-rescue helicopter [6] |
| LIGHTER | A cigarette lighter [4] |
| LION | B/W lion face [3] |
| LION2 | Lion silhouette [10] |
| LIPSTICK | A lipstick [4] |
| LITEBULB | A light bulb [9] |
| LITEHOU1 | Lighthouse on Cape Cod, evening [4] |
| LITEHOU2 | Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island [6] |
| LITEHOU3 | From a painting by Elizabeth Mumford, Cape Cod, as reproduced on a potato chip package (truly) [9] |
| LITEHOU4 | Marshall Point Light, Port Clyde, Maine, at dawn [9] |
| LITNING | High-speed photo of an electric discharge [7] |
| LKETAHOE | Shows the best aspects of Lake Tahoe (NOT the casinos) [9] |
| LLAMA | Head of a friendly llama [7] |
| LOBSTER3 | Lobster claw and cracker; oh, yum! [4] |
| LOOKMA! | No hands! [9] |
| LONDTELE | London telephone booth [10] |
| MACAW | Scarlet macaw, Bolivia [6] |
| MACAW2 | A different bird from the above [6] |
| MAGNIF01 | Magnifying glass [10] |
| MAIZE | The Mesoamerican staff of life [10] |
| MALCHITE | A piece of a malachite stalagmite from Zaire [9] |
| MAP | Where you are going; where you have been; where ARE you going? and where HAVE you been? [10] |
| MAPLEAF | Canadian flag [4] |
| MARTINI1 | A chilled vodka martini up, shaken, not stirred; with olive [5] |
| MARTINI2 | Another, pleasingly similar [6] |
| MASK1 | Polynesian mask [3] |
| MASK2 | Greek tragedy mask [7] |
| MASK3 | For the masked ball, New Orleans [10] |
| MATCH | A match head igniting [9] |
| MATHORN | Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland [4] |
| MAYA1 | From the Bonampak murals [8] |
| MAYDAY02 | Airplane in trouble [10] |
| MAYDAY04 | Another airplane in big trouble [10] |
| MAZE1 | A little maze, perhaps for confusing programs [5] |
| MAZEMAN | A maze-man, I guess [8] |
| MDCTLOGO | Logo of the UCSD Medical Center [9] |
| MEDUSA | The head of Ms. Medusa; usually she is seen as beautiful; well, not here [10] |
| MELON | Slice of watermelon [5] |
| MENSA | Mensa logo [1] |
| MEXICANA | Logo of Mexicana Airlines (JABAL*) [10] |
| MISCOPE | Skinny microscope [6] |
| MOBY1 | Moby Dick cutting up real ugly, as was his wont [7] |
| MODEM_1 | Old-style telephone (OS/2-variety folder) [1] |
| MONARCH | Butterfly [6] |
| MONEY3 | George Washington's head with traditional mushroom hairdo [6] |
| MONKEY | Fun-loving colobus monkey [7] |
| MONSTER | From the cover of the REM album of the same name [6] |
| MOON | Full moon rising [8] |
| MOONAZT | The Aztecs, like the early Asians, saw a rabbit in the moon [10] |
| MOONPIE | Delicious Lookout (TM) Moon Pie; tastes way better than it looks in this icon [5] |
| MOOSE1 | Moose by a lake under the northern lights, yes [7] |
| MOOSE2 | Moose silhouette [9] |
| MORPHOSE | From probably defunct Morphose game [3] |
| MORTMAIN | The dreaded Dead Hand [10] |
| MRI_T1 | Magnetic resonance image of the brain, with T1 weighting (say WHAT?) [3] |
| MTFUJI | Mt. Fuji, after rendition by Hokusai (1760 - 1849) [5] |
| MUSTANG | North American P-51, in style of WW II aircraft spotters silhouettes [9] |
| NEBULA1 | Nebula, sort of; astronomically impefect [1] |
| NESSIE | From the famous photograph of the Loch Ness monster [9] |
| NEWORLNS | New Orleans street light and horn player [7] |
| NO1 | The word NO [6] |
| NOEL | Christmas greeting: a mail box with Noel, you see (groan) [4] |
| NOSMOKE | Puritanical, health-nut stuff; to be ignored; light up! [4] |
| NOVA01 | A star busy blowing up [10] |
| NUCLEON | Board piece from Nucleon game [3] |
| OAKLEAF | Close to the icon of The Nature Conservancy [7] |
| OLDCAR | Front end of a classic [7] |
| OLDE1 | Ivy-covered folder for those archaic files we still haven't gotten around to deleting [4] |
| OLDE2 | Similar, but not associated with a folder [6] |
| OLYMPIC1 | Olympic games logo [3] |
| OPUS | The penguin from "Outland," by Berkeley Breathed (copyright, presumably) [6] |
| ORGCHART | An organization chart [5] |
| OSTRICH | Face of an ostrich [4] |
| OVTHERE | Finger pointing left [2] |
| PAINTS | Tube of oil paint and brush [9] |
| PANDA | Bai Yun, at the San Diego zoo [7] |
| PARIS | Cribbed from Klee or Miro or somebody Impressionistic [8] |
| PCLIP05 | Paper clips [10] |
| PCOM1 | Telephone receiver with P COM (as in ProComm) [1] |
| PDERNAL1 | Mt. Pedernal, the mountain so often painted by Georgia O'Keeffe [7] |
| PDERNAL2 | Similar, with trademark O'Keeffe-style cow skull [7] |
| PEACOCK | Symbol of N.B.C., sort of [4] |
| PEASIGN | Okay, this is from MY generation, so I can do what I want with it: semaphore for N and D, as in Nuclear Disarmament, which is still a good idea [10] |
| PEDALS | The one on the right makes it go, the one on the left makes it stop [10] |
| PEGASUS | The flying horse from Greek mythology [8] |
| PELICAN1 | Face view of brown pelican, South America [5] |
| PEN1 | Tip of fountain pen; for word processor [5] |
| PEN2 | Tip of ballpoint pen; for ditto [5] |
| PENGUIN1 | Actually, a couple of 'em [4] |
| PENGUIN2 | There is no such thing as too many penguins. [6] |
| PGLYPH1 | Southwestern petroglyph [7] |
| PGLYPH2 | Hawaiian petroglyph [8] |
| PIG | Kind of a non-representational pig [8] |
| PLANE1 | Passenger jet taking off into the sun [8] |
| PLANE2 | Passenger jet taking off, period [8] |
| PLANE3 | Another plane taking off (Southwest Airlines, I think) [8] |
| PLANE4 | Much more bellicose plane, against Maxfield Parrish sky [9] |
| PLANE5 | Fatter version of Plane4 [9] |
| PLANT | A stylized plant [9] |
| PLATYPS1 | I find a platypus nearly impossible to draw [8] |
| PLATYPS2 | See what I mean? [8] |
| PLUMB1 | In honor of the wonders of the plumb line [9] |
| PLUMB2 | Similar honor [9] |
| POISON | Poison bottle [8] |
| PORN | Gynecological view (vile and < |
| POWER | Southwestern non-representational design [1] |
| PRAM | Baby carriage [6] |
| PREGNANT | Pregnant woman line-drawing [7] |
| PRINCE | The artist formerly known as Prince [10] |
| PROMETH1 | Prometheus, who stole fire and gave it to man [9] |
| PROMETH2 | Another Promethean image [9] |
| PUEBLO | Near Santa Fe [8] |
| PUFFIN | Just a friendly little puffin, off the coast of Wales [8] |
| PUKE | Folder with puking face; for programs that belong there [4] |
| PUSH | A heavy-duty push-button [7] |
| PUSHING | Yes, pushing the envelope. Sigh. [10] |
| PYRAMID1 | The eye in the pyramid, with apologies to Shea and Wilson [4] |
| PYRAMID3 | Nocturnal view of a Mayan Pyramid (Temple II, Tikal?) [4] |
| PYRAMID4 | Something similar in subject matter [8] |
| PYRAMID5 | Representation of the Great Pyramid in Tenochtitlan, 1519 [10] |
| QUAIL | Logo of the California State Parks Foundation [10] |
| QUOTES | Lips, quotation marks: for any of several quotation programs [4] |
| RABBIT | Rabbit silhouette [10] |
| RACCOON | Nocturnal face view of raccoon [4] |
| RACECAR | Frontal view of a sports racing car [7] |
| RADAR | Radar screen [10] |
| RADIOAC1 | International symbol for radioactivity [2] |
| RADIOAC2 | Same, plus skull and h-nu [2] |
| RAKUPOT | Raku-fired pot, cleverly labeled RAKU, not a spittoon [3] |
| RANDOM | [10] |
| RAT1 | Friendly little rat, just sniffing the breeze [9] |
| RECTAN01 | Design o' rectangles [10] |
| RECTAN02 | Design o' rectangles [10] |
| RECTAN03 | Design o' rectangles [10] |
| RECTAN04 | Design o' rectangles [10] |
| RECTAN05 | Yes, more o' the same [10] |
| RECTBEAR | With different coordinates, you see, it becomes a polar bear [7] |
| REMOTE03 | The device with which I manipulate my television set [10] |
| RHEA | Lesser rhea of Patagonia; a flightless bird suggestive of the ostrich [10] |
| RHINO1 | Rhino by moonlight, uttering a mating call; good luck, rhino! [4] |
| RHINO2 | Still ugly and still painfully endangered [10] |
| ROACH | Roach (St. Gulik in the Discordian faith) fetchingly displayed on tile [4] |
| ROCKET01 | Implausible rocket [7] |
| ROCKET02 | Another implausible but lovable red rocket [10] |
| RONDEL | Formerly mostly a decoration of British warplanes [10] |
| ROO1 | Kangaroo, hopping along at a merry rate [7] |
| ROO2 | Similar; the red thing on the horizon is Ayres Rock, natch, or Uluru; sound effects by didgeridoo [7] |
| ROSE1 | A rose [5] |
| ROSE4 | A less representational rose [9] |
| ROSY | Rosy-fingered dawn, a phrase used a lot by Homer [4] |
| RULER | The end of one of those yellow wooden rulers [8] |
| SAAIRLNS | Logo of South Africa Airlines, and no recommendation is implied whatever, and I mean NONE AT ALL (JABAL*) [8] |
| SAFLAG | South African flag: The New South Africa [8] |
| SAFLAG2 | Beehive version of the South African flag [10] |
| SAFLAG3 | Pointillist version [10] |
| SANDIEGO | Outline map of San Diego; just what everyone needs [1] |
| SANTAFE | From a carved door in Santa Fe [8] |
| SAONOFRE | A portion of the San Onofre nuclear generating station [10] |
| SATURN | Saturn automobile logo; as with Toyota below [3] |
| SCALE1 | Balance-type scale; I use this for a unit conversion program. SCALE1 is balanced, SCALE2 is not. [5] |
| SCALE2 | See previous [5] |
| SCALE3 | Bathroom scale: step on it and weep [10] |
| SCALLOP1 | Chlamys islandicus: Iceland scallop [7] |
| SCALLOP2 | A scallop shell; colors arbitrary [10] |
| SCHCAT2 | Cat's paw, poison bottle, and radioactive source [4] |
| SCHROCAT | Schrodinger's cat, in its living mode, complete with poison bottle [4] |
| SCREAM | Face from "The Scream," by Edvard Munch [5] |
| SCREAM1 | Oh horrifying face from the "Scream" movie series [8] |
| SCREAM2 | Another version of this [8] |
| SEAWOLF1 | Submarine, for Seawolf game [4] |
| SEAWORLD | Minimally boring logo of Sea World, San Diego [10] |
| SELFPORT | Me, with jaundice (see BANDIT above) [6] |
| SF1 | San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge [6] |
| SF2 | San Francisco skyline, on a foggy day [8] |
| SHADES4 | A nonspecific design [10] |
| SHADES5 | Very similar indeed [10] |
| SHADOW | An ominous sort of shadow [10] |
| SHIELD | Design from a shield made by the Urapmin people in Papua New Guinea [10] |
| SHIP02 | Ship sailing straight toward viewer [3] |
| SHIP03 | Three-masted sailing ship from a bygone age [7] |
| SHIP05 | A simpler ship, or boat [7] |
| SHIP06 | Cruise ship on the horizon, near dusk [7] |
| SHIP07 | Vaguely cartoonish ship [8] |
| SHIP08 | Adapted from the logo of Kingdom Age Software, makers of Godspeed [10] |
| SHIP09 | Sailing off the Seychelles [10] |
| SHOE1 | High-heeled shoe [10] |
| SHOE2 | Another; no fetishism here [10] |
| SHOUT | Open, yelling mouth, complete with uvula [3] |
| SHRED2 | A hydrocephalic dwarf devouring a file: originally for the OS/2 shredder [3] |
| SHRED3 | Gory version of the default OS/2 shredder icon [3] |
| SKATEBOA | Politically very incorrect logo of Bitch Surfboards, Los Angeles, founded by Sal Rocco, Jr. Really. [4] |
| SKULLE01 | Skull with cross(ed) bones [1] |
| SKULLE02 | Similar [1] |
| SKULLE03 | More o' the same [1] |
| SKULLE07 | A yin-yang figure [10] |
| SKULLE08 | Small skull on confusing background [10] |
| SLIDE2 | Photographic 35 mm slide [1] |
| SLIDE3 | 35-mm photographic slide [10] |
| SLUG | Large, black, garden-eating slug from Vancouver Island [10] |
| SMILE | Fairly toothy smile: my secretary's reminder of a dental appointment [4] |
| SNAKE2 | The business end of a diamond-backed rattlesnake [8] |
| SNAKE3 | A snake in the grass [10] |
| SNOWCAT | Winter scene with snowplow [3] |
| SNOWFAL1 | Semi-abstract snowfall [7] |
| SNOWFAL2 | More o' the same [7] |
| SOCCER | Hexagons [5] |
| SOLITAR1 | Heart on a spade [1] |
| SOWEST1 | Southwestern desert scene [3] |
| SOWEST2 | Another: still trying to get it right [4] |
| SOWEST3 | Kokopelli dancing and playing his flute in front of a fire [5] |
| SOWEST4 | Cow's skull and cactus; oh, where is Georgia O'Keeffe? (Answer: floating just above Mt. Pedernal; vide supra) [7] |
| SOWEST5 | More of this Southwestern theme, here from nonprofit organization postage stamp [8] |
| SPHINX1 | The classic Egyptian sphinx [9] |
| SPHINX2 | Another view of the same [9] |
| SPIDER | A common or garden spider [10] |
| SPIRAL01 | Spiral design [10] |
| SPIRAL02 | Another spiral design [10] |
| SPIRAL03 | Another spiral design [10] |
| STAPLE | Stapler [6] |
| STARFISH | Starfish [6] |
| STAT2 | Bell curves, for statistics programs [1] |
| STAT3 | Pretty much the same, with sigma [6] |
| STEALTH1 | F-117A Stealth aircraft, front view [5] |
| STEEPLE | New England church [8] |
| STEPS | Going up or perhaps down [7] |
| STNHENGE | View of Stonehenge, minus the hordes of tourists [8] |
| STOPLITE | Stoplight [4] |
| STP | The oil treatment logo [1] |
| STRIPES1 | An abstraction, I guess; sorry, I guess [7] |
| STRIPES2 | More of the same [7] |
| STUKA | Junkers JU 87, in aircraft-spotter style from WW II [9] |
| SUB | Submarine, surfaced, front view [5] |
| SUITCAS1 | Well-traveled suitcase [3] |
| SUITCAS2 | About the same [6] |
| SUITCAS3 | More contemporary suitcase, with wheels [10] |
| SUNSET1 | Fiji dreams with palm trees [1] |
| SUNSET2 | About the same [6] |
| SUNSET3 | More stormy version [6] |
| SUNSET4 | The sun never sets on the British Empire [10] |
| SUPERTET | Super Tetris (typical dull Tetris icon) [1] |
| SURF1 | A surfer [1] |
| SURF2 | Another surfer [1] |
| SURF3 | Yet another; I live in Southern California [6] |
| SURF4 | In the tube [6] |
| SURF5 | Surfer coming out of tube [9] |
| SWAMP | Swamp, from U.A. nonprofit organization stamp [9] |
| SWAMPMA | Icon of the remarkable Swamp Mama Johnson, singer from the Pacific Northwest; may she prosper and thrive [8] |
| SWAN2 | Swan [8] |
| SWCHEGG1 | A Swiss-cheese egg [10] |
| SWCHEGG2 | Another Swiss-cheese egg [10] |
| SWCHEGG3 | Swiss-cheese eggs pleasantly overlapped [10] |
| SWOOSH | Nike trademark logo [8] |
| SYDOPERA | The Sydney opera house, with yacht [8] |
| TAJ | The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (1648) [8] |
| TAKEOFF | Jet liner over airport, headed for Fiji, oh yeah [4] |
| TALKHEAD | A talking head; a suit [6] |
| TAO | The Way; calligraphy originally by Alan Watts, from the cover of his autobiography [10] |
| TAP | A water tap, leaking [6] |
| TARGET | Bullseye with red holes; shooter is pulling up and left [5] |
| TEACHR | Teacher at chalkboard [6] |
| TECHSUP | Cobwebbed phone and skull that have formed while waiting for any generic technical support [4] |
| TEMPHEAV | The Temple of Heaven, in Beijing [8] |
| THUMBSDN | Thumb(s) down [5] |
| THUMBSUP | Corresponding [5] |
| THURNITE | A pair of legs. If you need an icon for every day of the week, this is Thursday. [2] |
| TIBET | A stab at the complex flag of poor, hapless Tibet [9] |
| TILES1 | A label in my beloved bathroom tile code; the first person to decipher this will NOT be awarded the matching vinyl luggage set or the stainless-steel cutlery [10] |
| TILES2 | Another bathroom tile encoded label that may be slightly more difficult to decipher (but not much more) [10] |
| TITANIC2 | R.M.S. Titanic at an unpleasant moment in her career; certain artistic liberties have been taken with reality. [3] |
| TNC | Trinitrochickenwire, a steroidal compound (the hydroxide) [6] |
| TOOLS01 | Some tools, cleverly labeled TOOLS [6] |
| TOTEM1 | Face on totem pole, Tlingit Indian, north of Juneau [7] |
| TOTEM2 | Pacific Northwest Haida Indian totem [8] |
| TOUCAN | A toco toucan; lives in Bolivia [6] |
| TOUCAN02 | A happy toucan with joyous blue feet [10] |
| TOWER | The Tarot ruined tower card XVI [9] |
| TOYOTA | Toyota logo [3] |
| TPAPER | A roll of toilet paper on a blue background [2] |
| TRASH_2 | Trash can [5] |
| TREE_02 | Just a tree [1] |
| TREE_03 | Directory-type "tree" [1] |
| TREE_07 | [10] |
| TREE_08 | A sort of hierarchical tree [8] |
| TREE_09 | Okay, I like trees [8] |
| TREE_10 | Yellow tree [10] |
| TREE_11 | Red/black tree with cross at its base [10] |
| TREE_12 | Large tree with sprouting tree at base; adapted from Finca International logo [10] |
| TREE_13 | Monterey cyprus in typical Monterey gloom [10] |
| TREEFROG | Lil' ole' Louisiana tree frog [7] |
| TRIPE1 | Fokker Dr.1 triplane. #1 is in combat situation. #2 has black background; okay, these planes didn't fly at night; this again is artistic license, because it makes a dramatic icon. As with BRAIN?.ICO above, I couldn't make up my mind. [3] |
| TRIPE2 | See previous [3] |
| TRISTERO | Muted post horn with W.A.S.T.E., dots implied; for "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" or whatever [4] |
| TROLLEY | Logo of San Diego trolley system [3] |
| TSHIRT | A tee-shirt with a T, for Throop Polytechnic [10] |
| TUBTHUM1 | [10] |
| TUBTHUM2 | [10] |
| TUNNEL2 | Oh, no: the light at the end of the tunnel IS an oncoming train! [3] |
| TURTLE | Kemp's Ridley sea turtle [9] |
| TUT1 | Sarcophagus cover of King Tutankamen [7] |
| TUT2 | Ankh and cartouche of King Tutankamen [9] |
| TUT3 | Cartouche of King Tutankamen's birth name [9] |
| TUT4 | As with Tut2 [9] |
| TWSTER2 | Tornado [10] |
| UCSD2 | Complete with the UCSD Undergraduate Library, or the "UGLY" [4] |
| UCSD4 | Oh, the official logo of UCSD! Use it everywhere. [6] |
| UCSD5 | More UCSD symbolism [8] |
| UFW | Logo of the United Farm Workers [10] |
| ULURU | AKA Ayre's Rock, central Australia [8] |
| UMBRELLA | Let a smile be your umbrella! [10] |
| UMBSMILE | Or, let an umbrella be your smile! [10] |
| UNDRGRND | London subway symbol [8] |
| UNIT7 | Self-centered logo of my company, Unit Seven Concepts [6] |
| UNITED | Logo of United Airlines; (JABAL*) [3] |
| UNODOS | Counting in Spanish; like several in this collection, looks best on a dark background [2] |
| URINAL1 | Actually, a pair of the tall variety [10] |
| URINAL2 | One of the smaller, wall-mounted sort [10] |
| USA1 | Gun on a red/white/blue background [6] |
| USA3 | The capitol [6] |
| USADE | Generic outline map of USA [1] |
| USFLAG | More or less [10] |
| VA2 | Design [10] |
| VA3 | Related design [10] |
| VASE | Typical figure/ground image; see FACE16.ICO. [7] |
| VIKING01 | Viking ship [10] |
| VIKING02 | Viking helmet [10] |
| VISACARD | VISA card [2] |
| VOLCANO1 | Erupting at night [8] |
| VOLC | |