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Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

#22

Hey, did you make these all by hand? I’m curious and impressed.

Yes, drew them in Figma. You can see some of the drawing processes here: https://twitter.com/huge_icons

All 3800+ of them? That's a number of icons per day for one person.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your interest! To clarify, these icons can be used in any interface. The term 'React Icons' refers to the specific React package we've created to make it easy for developers to integrate these icons into React and React Native applications. However, you can absolutely use these icons in other ways as well. They are available through a Figma plugin, WordPress, and directly in HTML-CSS via SVG. Compatible wi…

The name "React" in the title implies that this library has a dependence on React. I almost wrote it off for my purposes before I realized that it really doesn't have anything to do with React.

Yet there are other developers who are unaware the possibilities of non-react web development or how to use any resource that isn't installed with NPM. Tough call from a marketing perspective.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library.

(Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers, not the number of times a developer incorporated it into a project. For popular NPM libraries, this number can be in the many millions of downloads per week. My confusion stems from the fact a library used by thousands of projects will have substantially higher numbers in NPM than what is seen here. It is of course possible that this number counts developers incorporating these icons not through the NPM library.)

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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post #24

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library. (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers…

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Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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post #24

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library. (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers…

493 a week sounds like thousands over a month no?

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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post #24

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library. (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers…

Hugeicons Pro has more than 50k regular users.

- Figma plugin has 23k users ( https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1209922740177393208/ )

- 40k Per month web-app users ( https://hugeicons.com/icons ) (you can check Similarweb)

Also we have free available Figma file with more than 20k users, Wordpress plugin, IconJar users and more.

Thanks for asking and happy to clarify this.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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post #24

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library. (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers…

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Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

#29

These are great! Nice work. I was a little confused on the pricing page[1]. Since the icons are free to download, is the main reason to pay to get access to Figma files? https://hugeicons.com/pricing

Let me explain: There are 7 styles of icons, totaling 28,000+ icons currently, with an additional 8,000+ icons nearly ready.

Of these, 3,800 icons+ (4k apprx.) are completely free. They are free in the web app, free in the Figma file, free in the plugins,free on npm (almost everywhere).

Hope this helps.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

#30

These are great! Nice work. I was a little confused on the pricing page[1]. Since the icons are free to download, is the main reason to pay to get access to Figma files? https://hugeicons.com/pricing

It looks like the pro version has 27,000 icons (vs. the free 3,800) and bundles N requests for custom icons per month. Beautiful icon sets are a dime a dozen. But direct contact with the set's creator to design custom icons for your product/brand seems like a rare and attractive perk. I guess it depends on what exactly "request" means in practice
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