The umbrella icon makes me feel uneasy.
why so?
Maybe because the handle points to the right side, while usually points to the left, making it easy to recognize the icon if you are reading from left to right.
Feather: Open-source icons
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Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"…
> Most of that design work you did to make you site "different" or "beautiful" just made your site less intuitive for a user
Don't you think it depends on a lot of factors, not just the use of a different icons?
Also I doubt users will have trouble understanding that a lock icon on feather and a lock icon on font awesome have the same meaning.
Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#73Earlier 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?
You have fallen into the confusing intersection between trademark and copyright.
Files created by Facebook, depicting the trademarked Facebook logo, are copyrighted by Facebook. Files created by Feather, depicting the trademarked Facebook logo, are copyrighted by Feather. If the latter is freely licensed, with no restrictions on use, you may use that image in whatever manner you please. If you use it in a manner that generates brand confusion with Facebook's business, Facebook may, as a trademark enforcement action, order you to stop using the image in that way. They cannot make additional copyright claims.
It is likely they will anyway, under the assumption that no one but Facebook would create files from scratch for corporate logo images, when the company itself distributes gratis images of its logo to anyone who wants to put one on their website. But if they didn't make it, they can't impose prior restraint on what you do with it via licensing terms.
Facebook may impose copyright licensing terms on its own images that support its defense of its trademarks, but those terms have nothing to do with the image by Feather, or any other clean-room implementation of the Facebook logo.
Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#74And look at me stuck with FontAwesome.
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#75What benefits does this provide over using Font Awesome icons?
Are you asking generally the benefit of SVG over icon fonts? Github made a nice summary:
Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#76I wouldn't call them "beautiful". They're OK. "Cute" maybe. In any case, personally I'd rather wait for other people to call my work beautiful. Seems a bit pompous to self-apply it.
"Basic" or "simple" are how I'd describe them...
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#77Great site and there are also other quite helpful suggestions in the thread such as Icomoon. Problem is that the next time I need SVG icons I will forget these sites, try to google them and ending up on those sites that perform well on Google's SERPs but want money for clean SVGs. This happened to me two days ago and I just fired up Inkscape and remade those icons. However, this took too long. How can I remember such…
I've started tagging my bookmarks, by simply adding a bunch of words that I associate with a page behind the bookmark name in parentheses. So for example, I might add "(open source svg icon fonts font set)" behind the bookmark name for this.
9 out of 10 times I can easily find the bookmark I'm looking for, by entering a few of those words into my bookmark search and/or address bar, and it doesn't require any special extensions or services.
Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#78From 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?
This is answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091742
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#79Re: Feather: Open-source icons
#80FYI if you're concerned about accessibility these SVGs lack any kind of descriptors; you'll need to add your own.