Selfish plug here, but I'm maintaining a library of Feather Icons components for angular 2+ applications. Current version is 3.2.2 as feather version: https://github.com/michaelbazos/angular-feather
Feather: Open-source icons
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#12I understand this is not inherently presented here as any particular solution or competitor, although its presence here elevates it as such, so why use this or do this instead of using the library at thenounproject.com ?
One of the challenges I often find is in licensing/copyright. Some Creative Commons attribution requirements can be a pain, for instance, rather than something that's simply MIT like my code. I don't mind a license file in a repository, but anything that says I have to include a credit line somewhere in the end product is off-putting. Some places offer free icons, but if you modify it... say, by changing the color of the icon or converting it's format, you may be violating their terms.
So I'm always up for a clearly-defined set of MIT-licensed icons.
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#13Seems like a good time to mention an absolutely awesome - https://icomoon.io/app It allows cherry-picking icons from dozens of different SVG icon packs (including Feather) and packaging them into a custom (web)font. It can also be used to package your own SVG assets into a single font file and then use resulting .woff as an SVG sprite sheet.
I use http://fontello.com/ for that.
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#14What benefits does this provide over using Font Awesome icons?
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#15Cool
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#16What benefits does this provide over using Font Awesome icons?
You can include the directly in HTML source code. No extra requests needed. In some circumstances it might be a better trade-off. Especially when you use a small amount of icons.
Also, you can style each path individually using CSS or SVG. That means you can easily have multi-color icons.
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#17What benefits does this provide over using Font Awesome icons?
I know I at least am getting skeptical and a bit unsure of the licensing guidelines of font awesome. A fully-MIT product might be a bit reassuring for some people. Font Awesome seems to be more transitioning to wanting everyone to pay for licenses (yes, there's a free model, but they're pushing pro pretty hard)
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#18All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to complain when they give it for free).
For example, this one looks really nice, but it only has 'battery' and 'battery-charging'. In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging.
Then I think that this would be small to add, but again I don't want to complain. Then maybe someone will need a battery with a sliding charge, so they can represent as many charge percentages as the pixels allow. And then this becomes a whole other things, and not just an icon collection..
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#19All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to complain when they give it for free). For example, this one looks really nice, but it only has 'battery' and 'battery-charging'. In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging. Then I think that this would be small to add, b…
This is the full SVG source code for the battery icon:
It shouldn't be too hard to add another rectangle with whatever width you want. Just open up the dev tools and play around with it.
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#20It mildly bothers me that the stroke for phone-off is the opposite direction to all the other *-off icons.