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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by wongarsu »

criddell wrote: post #8
bubaflub wrote: post #2

From https://github.com/colebemis/feather/blob/master/README.md#l... : License Feather is licensed under the MIT License.

Are the trademarked icons (Github, Slack, maybe others) also covered by the MIT License?

I'm not a trademark lawyer, but to me the icons look generic enough that they shouldn't cause trouble unless you use them as logo for a competing service.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by ISL »

To pull criddell's important question to root-level:

How can the trademarked logos (Facebook, Instagram, Github, etc.) be provided without licensing terms?

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by usaphp »

sb8244 wrote: post #9
huhtenberg wrote: post #7

Seems 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.

Icomoon is amazing but so frustratingly slow with large sets

I don't know how large your set is but I have about 50 projects loaded into icomoon and each has at least 100 icons in it and i have not had any issues with speed. I love the app and it's one of the apps that I can't do any work without.

Also I had once accidentally deleted a project, contacted them and they were able to recover it within a few hours after my request. They are superb

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by sb8244 »

usaphp wrote: post #23
sb8244 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Icomoon is amazing but so frustratingly slow with large sets

I don't know how large your set is but I have about 50 projects loaded into icomoon and each has at least 100 icons in it and i have not had any issues with speed. I love the app and it's one of the apps that I can't do any work without. Also I had once accidentally deleted a project, contacted them and they were able to recover it within a few hours after my request. They are superb

I loaded streamline font set into it and it's actually close to unusable on my machine.

I'm glad to hear it works for others though.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by usaphp »

pvinis wrote: post #18

All 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…

> In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging.

These icons are provided in svg format. You can open it in Sketch app, draw a rectangle to show Desiree battery level, the click on the path and click "export/save as SVG".

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by onli »

ISL wrote: post #22

To pull criddell's important question to root-level: How can the trademarked logos (Facebook, Instagram, Github, etc.) be provided without licensing terms?

Which licensing terms? That has nothing to do with each other. This icon set is foss, that means the sources are free and you can use the icons as you wish, as long as not otherwise encumbered. For the brand icons the source code is free, but if you use them in a way that conflicts with the trademark holder rights they can sue (depending on your jurisdiction).

That's why patents are such a big danger to FOSS software, because that's an equivalent situation.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by usaphp »

fwx wrote: post #14

What benefits does this provide over using Font Awesome icons?

I personally hate using font awesome. I think it looks dated and already too generic. Every website that uses default unedited bootstrap and font awesome set looks so bland and indistinguishable to me.
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