How much work does it take to create 3800 icons let alone 27000? It sounds like months of focussed work to me
I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)
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#52Tying to React is limiting. It would be better to have a neutral way to use them like FA that also does React, Vue, and SVG too. https://fontawesome.com/icons/camera-retro?f=classic&s=thin
Thanks for sharing. And yes, already we have many framework support ( https://hugeicons.com/icons ) and we're expanding to Icon font, Flutter, Vue, Angular soon.
The best and first one would be to not require any framework.
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#53How much work does it take to create 3800 icons let alone 27000? It sounds like months of focussed work to me
It takes a lot of time. We started building this product in 2020. We did it slowly and gradually.
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#54Even though I appreciate the work that must have gone into the creation of the icons, I do not like them at all and I would not consider using them, ever. Why would I look all day at black and white wire-frame icons? I consider colorful icons to be beautiful, ones that closely follow the color and shape of original objects. Like Haiku icons, for example. https://www.haiku-os.org/development/icon-guidelines
Wow I feel like I'm back in 2006 or something. I agree they look nice though.
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#55Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)
#56This is subjective so I hope it is ok for me to say this: the icons are not beautiful. They feel artificial and generic. At least they are not square. But they do lack character and personality. If your goal is to conform to what UI designers think is modern and stylish this is great, but speaking as a user I am tired of this boring ui trend that lacks any sort if boldness. It's just not "cool".
It's completely okay; everyone has their own preferences. While some may love this style, others might not—it's all about choice. We're grateful to have over 50,000+ users/month who love what we offer. Respect your perspective as it will help us consider our approach and strive to cater to a broader audience. Could you share examples of designs or styles that you find appealing? Any specific icon library you like wou…
Great reply, sorry my response is late but 1998-2003 era desktop icons are a good example. Of course it would be an explicit retro look today but short of a mockup what I can say us that those classic icons felt tangible. They were not afraid to raise a bevel or do 3d. What I expect today us the cool graphics we saw in futuristic ui's in movies but even better. These modern icons feel like a fancy artsy scribble.
I am glad for you that your product is popular and I wouldn't suggest not chasing that. But your customers don't have many good style options these days. If you forgot everything about ui trends and consider something like the button or scrollbar and how real users prefer windows 98's version over win11 or macos and consider why that is, maybe you can set the trend.
Why squares and scribbles when you can do cool animated 3d that is bold and beautiful?