I'm not sure about the subscription model. Everything is a subscription these days and I think it's a bad thing because if you've already made the icons then just set a fixed price. Made new icons? create a new version and charge for it.
Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create
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#32Congrats, all these icons and illustrations look great! I have a question, what's the difference for example between "UI Icons Line - Free" and "UI Icons Line - Pro" when using them for free? I think I'm not understanding the license, I could download icons from both and put the attribution the same way, couldn't I?
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#33I love these icons, great work. I also found the licensing confusing. You say it's under CC 4.0 but don't specify. When digging deeper it appears you mean CC BY 4.0, but then you link to another page that places specific restrictions on the type of attribution, which CC BY does not do. What's more, some of these restrictions are onerous, e.g., requiring attribution in an image's text description or requiring a link t…
Oh no, I'll get this fixed asap.
Those 5 icon sets, Bangalore and Freemoji sets are all licensed under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 which lets you use them as you want.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Other premium icon sets aren't open-source, so using them would require a backlink or a purchase.
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#34Hi Vincent. These look great. I really like the soft edges and curves, subtle but not too subtle as to make them look comic-book like. Very nice
Thank you! <3
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#35Wow, they all look very good. I totally love the streamline freehand icon set, bravo!
Thank you! Freehand, Cyber and Pixel are a few of the really unique styles.
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#36Which open source license are they released under?
Those 5 icon sets, Bangalore and Freemoji sets are all licensed under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 which lets you use them as you want.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Other premium icon sets aren't open-source, so using them would require a backlink or a purchase.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Subscription: Moving to a subscription was a hard decision and we thought about it for 2 years, but it allowed us to focus on producing more content and improving workflow features like a figma plugin, global color editor, CSS color editor etc. I wrote all about it in a Medium post. 2. Thanks for letting me know that the licensing isn't as clear. You're absolutely right in assuming that your customers can continue…
Please also make the open-source licensing clearer. I couldn't figure out which license they are actually under. It refers to CC 4.0, but creative commons currently has 6 different licenses in version 4.0.
We had licensed the 5 icon sets, Bangalore and Freemoji sets under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 which lets you use them as you want.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
I'll take a look what are the other 6 licenses and make our licensing information clearer. Thank you. I appreicate this.
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#38Oops, the HN audience really likes icons.
But we never took that step forward fully. We are constantly using icons in real life (trafic signs is one example) when we want to communicate small dose of information, to everyone, in short amount of time. That's why we use icons - changing taskbar into list of words works only until there is enough space, and even then is more annoying then just finding instantly recognizable picture.