LizaBuilds the tools
Liza is a software engineer and the one who builds everything on this site. She got interested in Yoto icons the way most people do — by wanting one that did not exist — and then went considerably further than the problem required, measuring the entire public icon catalogue to work out what actually makes a 16×16 image readable. She writes the pieces about how things work and why they break.
- icons
- formats
- tools
- how things work
- troubleshooting
3 guides by Liza
- Guide
How to make your own Yoto icons
Three ways to get a custom icon onto a Make Your Own card — draw it, download it, or generate it — and which one is worth your evening.
- Guide
Yes, Yoto icons can be animated
Little looping animations work on the player, and they delight small children. There's one upload setting that quietly ruins them.
- Troubleshooting
Why your icon looks fuzzy on the player
It looked perfect on your laptop and it's a smudge on the card. Here's what goes wrong, why, and the fix that takes two minutes.