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Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by babuskov »

nilved wrote: post #28
moron4hire wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can also be recolored more easily, making themes easier to maintain.

But they can only be one color. I don't think gradients and stuff work on them.

There are ways to use multiple colors:

http://www.pixelambacht.nl/2014/multicolor-icons/

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by bpatrianakos »

dfrey wrote: post #41

There seems to be an embarrassingly large number of people who think web developers == developers.

I think it's all about context. It's been my experience that "developer" is mostly applied to web developers and "programmer" is most often used when talking about desktop application development. In this context I don't think adding the word "web" before "developer" makes it any more clear as it's web developers who mostly use icon fonts and web developers who are the target audience here.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by sheetjs »

Has anyone cleared the corporate logo use with a lawyer? In particular, keep in mind the following regarding the Apple logo:

    #   NOTE: The graphic image associated with the Apple logo character
    #   is not authorized for use without permission of Apple, and
    #   unauthorized use might constitute trademark infringement.
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.T...

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by JohnTHaller »

sheetjs wrote: post #46

Has anyone cleared the corporate logo use with a lawyer? In particular, keep in mind the following regarding the Apple logo: # NOTE: The graphic image associated with the Apple logo character # is not authorized for use without permission of Apple, and # unauthorized use might constitute trademark infringement. http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.T...

All trademarks fall under that, realistically, not just Apple.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by toxican »

SimeVidas wrote: post #17

The author instructs loading the entire font package, which is 35KB, onto you website. I don't think this is a good approach from a performance perspective. I recommend using tools like Fontello to create custom font files with just the icons you need.

Unless you're missing a 0, does a file size like that really matter?

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by Argorak »

stronglikedan wrote: post #36
joeyspn wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to say this... Any person designing this kind of logo collections should ask first. Legal troubles can arise. Sad but true...

I don't think the responsibility to get legal permission is on the creator of the collection, but on the person using the logo instead.

You think or you are sure?

The creator of the collection is using the logo by putting it on the web page. Also, the logo is licensed under MIT, which he probably cannot do, if he doesn't hold the rights.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by pornel »

I wish icon fonts used ligatures to select the right glyph, rather than meaningless codepoints (e.g. you can make font automagically replace characters "git" with the Git logo).

Otherwise these fonts end up being used in a non-accessible way (I browse with webfonts disabled and keep seeing boxes instead of images, with no fallback or a useless display:none'd fallback).

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