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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by athenot »

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?

It's (more of) a trademark issue instead of a copyright one.

Basically, you use your own prudence when displaying references to a business (be it with their official branding or with an indirect reference). Of course, many businesses will try to strengthen their brand recognition by insisting you use their official branding or nothing… and only in ways they approve, lest you get on the wrong side of their legal team.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by onli »

matthewbauer wrote: post #37
onli wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I don't think that licensing terms is the right term here. But IANAL. I'd call it licensing terms if you are using the license of the trademark holder to do something with the icon, like marking a product of your own. That's not happening here. Feather is distributing icons of brands (which is legal) or icons that resemble those icons of brands (still legal) to people that may use them to depict those brands (for which one does not require a license).

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by asdfgadsfgasfdg »

usaphp wrote: post #27
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.

OTH if you use their icons from e.g. Bootstrap as they are usually used then users actually recognize them without thinking and the icons actually help users interact with your website - which is the point of the icons anyway!

The same goes for classic simple buttons, nav bars color pallets etc - users know them already before they interact with your site. Most of that design work you did to make you site "different" or "beautiful" just made your site less intuitive for a user.

This opinion comes from experience building b2b webapps - users generally wish they didn't need to do the admin work the webapp is helping them do. So user stories are dominated by building the simplest quickest workflows to allow users to capture, fetch or manipulate the data they need and to then get back on with their lives - having standard controls that are familiar from other sites helps with this.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by corobo »

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?

You follow the brand guidelines as best you can as an icon supplier then it's most likely on the site/app using them to follow the guidelines too to avoid issue

https://en.facebookbrand.com/guidelines/brand

https://en.instagram-brand.com/guidelines/general

https://github.com/logos

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by flixic »

wolframhempel wrote: post #6

They're beautiful, but I'd much rather use them as an icon font. Is there any way to do that?

Fonts are more convenient to use, but they usually don't display as sharply as SVGs. Generally icons should be only shown at the size they were design for. With icon fonts some sharpness is possible, even if difficult, but it still doesn't look as good as SVGs.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by [deleted] »

usaphp wrote: post #25
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".

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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by astine »

xeromal wrote: post #5
ringaroundthetx wrote: post #4

I 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 ?

Variety is the spice of life.

This is the only reason necessary, really. Yeah, every website could use the same amazing icon set but it would get samey after a while. Having some different icon sets to pick from is nice.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by amelius »

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.

Why not use separate SVG files? You could reference them as data-url from the CSS to save round-trips.

Perhaps it's just me but using a font to store icons seems arcane.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by noir_lord »

amelius wrote: post #58
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.

Why not use separate SVG files? You could reference them as data-url from the CSS to save round-trips. Perhaps it's just me but using a font to store icons seems arcane.

Always trade offs, that said I favour the font approach since the download is still relatively tiny and font-face is better supported in the wild.
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