Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed • Hacker News Board

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by adamdbradley » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

Ben also wrote a great post describing how he built Ionicons: http://ionicframework.com/blog/building-ionicons/

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by chmars » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

I'm missing emoticons … ;)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by Rampoina » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

I just see kanji's and a some arabic characters. I checked and firefox is set to allow pages to use their fonts.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by rfrey » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:18 PM UTC

Lovely, thanks.

I have to feel like it's the end of an era when new icon sets don't include a floppy disk, though. :`/

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by steven777400 » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC

yOutely wrote: post #24

Monotone icons can never be beautiful.

Although "never" is probably too strong a word, I prefer colorful icons as well :)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by samdunne » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

When I hover over anything in Safari it disappears. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7j32ek1lmb0l6zd/Screenshot%202013-...

Doesn't load in Firefox or any mobile browser I have on iOS (Chrome, Mobile Safari & Dolphin)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by aperrien » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #28

electic wrote: post #26

It would be nice if people would contribute to Font Awesome instead of creating whole new sets.

What licence is FA under?

Looks like MIT, mostly:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/license/

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by baddox » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:36 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #16

It seems a little dangerous to include logos for various companies. I could see the likes of Reddit and Y Combinator turning a blind eye, but would we expect the same from Google, Microsoft, and Apple? I am no legal expert, but wouldn't those icons present a long term problem if this project were to truly become successful?

Don't many of these companies have specific terms on how their logos should be used on external sites to represent things like platform-specific apps? I'm not sure if custom-made fonts would be included in those terms, but I know these companies aren't dead set against there being no external usage.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by yesimahuman » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #15

So looks like we got hit with a perfect storm of Github going down for the archive download, and the icons not loading on Firefox. Working on fixing the second one, but the repo with all the icons is here: https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons

Okay, the firefox issue was fixed and github is back. For those curious, looks like one of our new icons was not processed correctly by icomoon and ruined the whole font file. Lesson learned.

So, if you got the v1.2 version, download the new 1.2.2 version instead :)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by yesimahuman » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 10:40 PM UTC

yOutely wrote: post #24

Monotone icons can never be beautiful.

You can do some cool stuff with background colors and all of that. But I agree, we'd love to do multi-color icons :)