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

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by Samuel_Michon » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

I love it and I’ll be using it, thanks. Previous similar sets of icons I found didn’t include all of the icons I needed. The main ones I need are: email, home, share, arrows, checkmark, cross, help, love, and link.

I’m thrilled that this collection doesn’t only include the old iOS ‘share’ button, but also the new iOS 7 style button.

I also like that you not only included an icon webfont for all the symbols, but also SVG files for all of the icons.

NB: Just an idea: on the website, it’d be nice if you‘d have hover tooltips for the icons that would show the description. (it took me a while to find out I had to click on the icon to see the description – to me, clicking means I will download the icon)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by yesimahuman » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:40 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #18

This looks like a great complement to Font Awesome. Bless you for including a Cheatsheet in the download. These look great! As an aside, I wish there was a way to search these icons sets by idea. So "Money" returns icon-ios7-pricetag and icon-social-bitcoin. (obviously I can cmd+F to look for the exact name).

Did you try that exact search? It works just as you described :) We tried to make sure you could search by generic concepts rather than just the text in the class names.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by Bahamut » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

I like these icons, but one suggestion - can you put a link to the GitHub repo at the top of the ionicon page? It should be much more accessible than at the bottom.

Edit: Oh, and register this on Bower!

Edit #2: And maybe LESS and SASS support please? :)

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by yOutely » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:43 PM UTC

Monotone icons can never be beautiful.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by slg » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:48 PM UTC

Bahamut wrote: post #19

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?

Font Awesome is pretty popular and I haven't seen anything happening there with regards to this situation, so this is a non-issue IMO.

I am not sure if the "But Mom, all my friends were doing it" defense will hold up in court.

In all seriousness, they are claiming copyright over an icon that is clearly meant to represent a brand's copyrighted and trademarked logo. Then they are rereleasing that logo under a MIT license. I have never gone to law school, but I can't imagine that Apple's lawyers will be thrilled by that.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by electic » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:49 PM UTC

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

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by Samuel_Michon » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:49 PM UTC

castis wrote: post #6

The ones I can see are great! I know I'm most likely not your target market but I'd want to know. http://i.imgur.com/T661sDN.jpg FF 24 - ubuntu 12.04

I don’t want to come across as gloating, but just to add a data point: Chrome 30 on OS X 10.9 works fine. I’m toying around with the icons right now.

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by DanBC » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by kenrikm » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

Icon fonts are awesome, thanks for taking the time to create these. For those interested I have a post/example project on my blog on how to use them in iOS6+. http://kenrikmarch.com/posts/4

Re: Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

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Post by Bahamut » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #25

Bahamut wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Font Awesome is pretty popular and I haven't seen anything happening there with regards to this situation, so this is a non-issue IMO.

I am not sure if the "But Mom, all my friends were doing it" defense will hold up in court. In all seriousness, they are claiming copyright over an icon that is clearly meant to represent a brand's copyrighted and trademarked logo. Then they are rereleasing that logo under a MIT license. I have never gone to law school, but I can't imagine that Apple's lawyers will be thrilled by that.

I understand, but it's not always so cut and dry. Seeing that a popular almost identical non-controversial product is doing the same thing without any legal action is a vote of confidence in my book. Having been part of a hobbyist organization who has had experience with dealing with large corporations who hold copyrights (in music), I am privy to information you might be surprised at what companies choose to let slide as unofficial policy.