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Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

pvinis wrote: post #36
jannes wrote: post #19

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This is the full SVG source code for the battery icon: It shouldn't be too hard to add another rectangle with whatever width you want. Just open up the dev tools and play around with it.

Sure, I could make something that works. I could make a hacky icon for each. And that's what I did for my app. I could try to contribute, but it's not going to be in the style of the rest of the icons. That's the point of a collection. It's a collection that one or a team of people made. I can make a PR that they have to look at and fix and/or redesign. I could ask them to create it themselves. But in both of these s…

i know this wasn't the point of your comment, but: overlaying/combining SVGs really isn't a hack.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by RonanTheGrey »

thinbeige wrote: post #66

Great site and there are also other quite helpful suggestions in the thread such as Icomoon. Problem is that the next time I need SVG icons I will forget these sites, try to google them and ending up on those sites that perform well on Google's SERPs but want money for clean SVGs. This happened to me two days ago and I just fired up Inkscape and remade those icons. However, this took too long. How can I remember such…

I use Chrome, predominantly. At least, for my bookmark library. When you save a bookmark in Chrome, it defaults to using the page title as the bookmark description.

I have started renaming the bookmarks - I leave the relevant part of the title (removing irrelevant stuff like brands, brand descriptions etc.) and then I add a set of keywords I associate with the link.

Later, when I want to find it, and call I can remember are some words I associate with the link, I type them in Chrome's search bar and it usually ends up matching at least 1 or 2 that I picked for the title, so Chrome finds the bookmark.

It is not a flawless system but it is effectively bookmark tagging without any additional tools. It's also based on how I associate the memory, and not on whatever random (and usually useless SEO-based text) the page creator decided to use for the title; which means that recalling the link is alot more straightforward because the way we hook memories tends to be really consistent.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by CrystalGamma »

seanwilson wrote: post #64
amelius wrote: post #58

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Why not use separate SVG files? You could reference them as data-url from the CSS to save round-trips. Perhaps it's just me but using a font to store icons seems arcane.

I prefer SVGs as well now. You can style + animate them with CSS, it's easier to see what changed in your Git diffs and you can quickly edit them in an SVG editor if you need to.

Do you know any way to style them using CSS without using JS? (and while keeping them cacheable)

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by jccalhoun »

thinbeige wrote: post #66

Great site and there are also other quite helpful suggestions in the thread such as Icomoon. Problem is that the next time I need SVG icons I will forget these sites, try to google them and ending up on those sites that perform well on Google's SERPs but want money for clean SVGs. This happened to me two days ago and I just fired up Inkscape and remade those icons. However, this took too long. How can I remember such…

i use pinboard for this.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by wongarsu »

vntok wrote: post #98
pducks32 wrote: post #93

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Literally never heard of any of these. However I have heard of Safari, Edge, and Firefox. And I don’t think the market share breakdown of twitter vs Mastodon is similar to Chrome vs. Firefox.

It is similar in the sense that one of the two products absolutely crushes their competition in most if not all markets and in most if not all aspects that actually matter to the end users.

Chrome has 59% global marketshare on the desktop [1][2]. That's big, but not "crushing competition so much others might as well not exist" big.

1: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

2: https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by wyldfire »

onli wrote: post #52
matthewbauer wrote: post #37

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So, there are licensing terms, they just aren't additional ones from Feather?

I don't think that licensing terms is the right term here. But IANAL. I'd call it licensing terms if you are using the license of the trademark holder to do something with the icon, like marking a product of your own. That's not happening here. Feather is distributing icons of brands (which is legal) or icons that resemble those icons of brands (still legal) to people that may use them to depict those brands (for whi…

Unfortunately, copyrights and trademarks aren't mutually exclusive, so technically logos could be infringing derivative works if copyrighted.

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by shakna »

CrystalGamma wrote: post #104
seanwilson wrote: post #64

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I prefer SVGs as well now. You can style + animate them with CSS, it's easier to see what changed in your Git diffs and you can quickly edit them in an SVG editor if you need to.

Do you know any way to style them using CSS without using JS? (and while keeping them cacheable)

Plain CSS works doesn't it? [0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/SV...

Re: Feather: Open-source icons

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Post by onli »

wyldfire wrote: post #108
onli wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that licensing terms is the right term here. But IANAL. I'd call it licensing terms if you are using the license of the trademark holder to do something with the icon, like marking a product of your own. That's not happening here. Feather is distributing icons of brands (which is legal) or icons that resemble those icons of brands (still legal) to people that may use them to depict those brands (for whi…

Unfortunately, copyrights and trademarks aren't mutually exclusive, so technically logos could be infringing derivative works if copyrighted.

Oh, seems like I'm out of my depth there :/ I do understand that copyright might apply, but not how it could make such logos problematic (in US-law, right?). In which way can such a logo be infringing derivative work?
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