The icons look good and all.
But it's frustrating to see another icon webfont with the same (small) selection of icons as every other free icon webfont.
Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
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#92It 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?
I'm disappointed that there's no penguin.
Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
#93The icons look good and all. But it's frustrating to see another icon webfont with the same (small) selection of icons as every other free icon webfont.
Any ideas on things we could add? Feel free to make a note here: https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons/issues?state=open
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#94Too bad there is no text below the icons for fast searching.
Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
#95It 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.
These are all trademarks, many of them registered. You must place (R) for registered and (TM) for non-registered next to the mark when you display it. These lack that. The idea is that if you don't note this, you cannot claim it is a unique and defensible mark. Hence, I'd expect that if using Apple logos in this way gained traction, you'd get some nasty letters, since by definition of trademark law, you must defend the use of your mark, if you want to retain it. That's part of why Apple will sue "Bob's Apple Store" because if they don't seek to enforce their "Apple Store" mark, then anyone else can also use it.
Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
#96Too bad there is no text below the icons for fast searching.
If you search any term in the box related to the icons, they will filter. Like "money" shows various money related icons.
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#97this is excellent, here it is for use in iOS projects: https://github.com/TapTemplate/ionicons-iOS
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
These are all trademarks, many of them registered. You must place (R) for registered and (TM) for non-registered next to the mark when you display it. These lack that. The idea is that if you don't note this, you cannot claim it is a unique and defensible mark. Hence, I'd expect that if using Apple logos in this way gained traction, you'd get some nasty letters, since by definition of trademark law, you must defend t…
You're not required to use the ® and ™ marks to denote trademarks. Look at the web sites for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc. No ®s to be found.
IANAL but as far as I understand it, the purpose of a trademark symbol is to save you from having to send C&Ds to unwitting infringers. Your trademark doesn't lose its status just because you left of the registration symbol.
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#99Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
#100Oh look another page full of unicode placeholder symbols. When did the web become a place that is hostile to people who want to choose the fonts they read things in?
What? Not sure what you mean. The fonts use unicode characters for the icons like any other icon font. Anything we could do to make it more friendly?
My point is just that icon fonts are fundamentally broken.