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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 dingaling »

Argorak wrote: post #49
stronglikedan wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

'Using the logo' is different from 'using the logo in a manner infringing the holder's trademark'.

Simply displaying an Apple logo, for example, and saying 'this is the Apple logo' is perfectly valid. Pretending to be Apple or Apple-endorsed is a different matter.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by marcosdumay »

lhnz wrote: post #18
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #15

I am not sure I get it - it seems to be logos of well known tech companies or their well known products. Why would I want to use someone else's icon ?

Perhaps if you were building a web version of your CV you might want to use icons to symbolise knowledge.

Doing that comes with a huge Google indexing penalty.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by vorillaz »

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.

If you had a closer look on the page and the FAQ section you would have noticed that there is a manifest file that you can load into IcoMoon and select your desired fonts to use, minimising the size of the fontset. PS Font awesome is much much more big in size.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by pornel »

vorillaz wrote: post #54
pornel wrote: post #50

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).

PUA characters are use as a proper way in order to render in all browsers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052346

Although private use area is technically a proper way to add a custom symbol to Unicode font/text, it's not the best way from accessibility perspective.

For users who can't see the font the character will be completely meaningless. Instead of getting e.g. "Compatible with Linux!" they'll get "Compatible with reserved symbol U+E001!"

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by [deleted] »

vorillaz wrote: post #58
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...

I am aware of that. As the developer of Devicons I am not claiming any rights upon the logos. Also take a look at the note at the very bottom of the page: Note: All brand icons are trademarks of their respective owners. The use of these trademarks does not indicate endorsement of the trademark holder by the author, nor vice versa.

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Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by recursive »

jayrhynas wrote: post #63
umberto wrote: post #51

The .NET logo is wrong, this is not the C#/MS logo. The logo used comes from a Brit publication called ".net" which has nothing to do with MS .NET.

Well, the selector is "devicons-netmagazine" so it seems intentional

It's funny that there is a logo for the magazine, but not the programming framework the magazine is actually about.

Re: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

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Post by mikeleeorg »

vorillaz wrote: post #59
adamgravitis wrote: post #32

"an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds." Urgh. Why do people do this?

I thought that would be a good catchphrase to grab some attention. My apologies.

I thought it was pretty funny. It seemed absurd enough that I thought it was totally tongue-in-cheek.
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