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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Just wondering, is it legal to remake a company's logo (eg instagram)

I don't think there's a simple yes/no answer to that. It fits somewhere between trademark and copyright legally, and probably depends on the degree of similarity.

It is legal to re-create the logo. It is not legal to use your re-creation in a manner that infringes upon the trademark.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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I 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.

eh... beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The author has every right to describe them beautiful if he thinks so.

In this case I'd call them really cute.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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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.

> Don't you think it depends on a lot of factors, not just the use of a different icons?

Of course - it all adds up. The trick is knowing where and when it is worth differentiating.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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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…

What about the derivative works right? Although not a literal copy, one could argue that making one's own similar version of the logo could constitute a derivative work that could be construed as infringing.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Don't you think it depends on a lot of factors, not just the use of a different icons? Of course - it all adds up. The trick is knowing where and when it is worth differentiating.

Vas majority of the websites that use font awesome icons are cheaply made projects that fail to get traction most of the time and have a relatively small user base. So using font awesome icons with an idea that it will help users recognize what they represent, is flawed. I doubt regular users who according to you "would have trouble figuring out what the icon means if they did not see it before" even visit the type of sites that use font awesome icons, they are primerely used by small startups or one men shops with users mostly coming from sites like HN or producthunt anyway.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome? /rant

This is not a conspiracy, you know.

There is a reason the set contains a Twitter icon and not a Mastodon icon, a Facebook icon and not a Diaspora* icon, a CodePen icon and not a Dabblet icon, etc. Like it or not, these are the products that the people elected.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome? /rant

While I see what you mean, there is compass which is essentially the safari logo, and there is a globe which can be used as a generic browser.
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