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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by sailfast »

Cool site! Always a fan of getting more design options out there for icons / UX in applications.

Bit of a tangent for product folks:

A lot of this stuff actually does look beautiful, but the use of "beautiful" as a modifier has diluted the term for me. When I click on something labeled "beautiful" I almost always expect to see "meh", and most of the time, that's exactly what happens.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by pvinis »

jannes wrote: post #19
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…

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.

Sure, I could make something that works. I could make a hacky icon for each. And that's what I did for my app.

I could try to contribute, but it's not going to be in the style of the rest of the icons. That's the point of a collection. It's a collection that one or a team of people made. I can make a PR that they have to look at and fix and/or redesign. I could ask them to create it themselves. But in both of these scenarios, the designers of the collection need to do more work, for me, for free, which is not great for them.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by matthewbauer »

onli wrote: post #26
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…

So, there are licensing terms, they just aren't additional ones from Feather?

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by lnx01 »

vijaybritto wrote: post #34

The icons are beautiful. But one off the topic thing here is that the webpage loads superfast in 3g in India. Can the site builders talk about the loading perf a bit?

My guess is that they're SVG, which makes them absolutely miniscule. Beyond that the page is simple, little if any js, minimal CSS, and no images.
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